Best Lawyers Awards Covington Nine ‘2014 Lawyer of the Year’ Recognitions and 204 Mentions
August 15, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC, August 15, 2013 — Best Lawyers named nine Covington & Burling lawyers as “2014 Lawyer of the Year” in their respective practice areas and cities. The selected lawyers received strong ratings from their peers for their “abilities, professionalism and integrity” in the publication’s annual survey.
Overall, Covington lawyers received 204 individual mentions in 57 areas of law. Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America is based on nearly 5 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
The Covington lawyers recognized as “Lawyers of the Year” are:
The Covington lawyers recognized in various practice areas are as follows:
Administrative/Regulatory: Jennifer Johnson and Robert Long
Antitrust: Harvey Applebaum, Thomas Barnett, Deborah Garza, Robert Sayler, and Theodore Voorhees
Appellate: Gregg Levy, Robert Long, and John Nields
Arbitration: Mitchell Dolin and Robert Sayler
Banking and Finance: Keith Noreika, David Rosinus, Stuart Stock, and Jean Veta
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization: Dennis Auerbach, Michael St. Patrick Baxter, and Benjamin Hoch
Bet-the-Company Litigation: Robert Haslam, Gregg Levy, Mark Lynch, George Pappas, Ethan Posner, Robert Sayler, and Alan Vinegrad
Biotechnology: Jim Snipes
Commercial Litigation: Harvey Applebaum, Donald Brown, Mitchell Dolin, Saul Goodman, Eugene Gulland, William Iverson, Gregg Levy, Robert Long, Mark Lynch, George Pappas, Ethan Posner, Robert Sayler, and Alan Vinegrad
Communications: Yaron Dori, Jennifer Johnson, Mace Rosenstein, Gerard Waldron, Stephen Weiswasser, and Kurt Wimmer
Copyright: Simon Frankel, George Pappas, and Christopher Sipes
Corporate: Philip Howard, Frederick Kanner, David Martin, and Scott Smith
Corporate Compliance: Bruce Baird, David Bayless, Len Chazen, and David Martin
Corporate Governance: Len Chazen, Philip Howard, and David Martin
Criminal Defense - White Collar: Stephen Anthony, Bruce Baird, Haywood Gilliam, Nancy Kestenbaum, Mark Lynch, John Nields, Ethan Posner, and Alan Vinegrad
Derivatives and Futures: Bruce Bennett
Employee Benefits (ERISA): Julie Edmond, Amy Moore, Richard Shea, and John Vine
Employment - Management: Jeffrey Huvelle
Energy: William Massey and Richard Meserve
Environmental: Don Elliott, Theodore Garrett, Richard Meserve, and Allan Topol
FDA: Scott Danzis, Ellen Flannery, John Hurvitz, Peter Barton Hutt, Richard Kingham, Michael Labson, Gerald Masoudi, and Peter Safir
Financial Services Regulation: Mark Plotkin, David Rosinus, Stuart Stock, Jean Veta, Edward Yingling
Government Relations: Roderick DeArment, Stuart Eizenstat, Martin Gold, and Jack Schenendorf
Health Care: Ellen Corenswet, John Hurvitz, Peter Barton Hutt and Ethan Posner
Information Technology: Nigel Howard and Bert Wells
Insurance: Donald Brown, John Buchanan, Mitchell Dolin, Marialuisa Gallozzi, Saul Goodman, David Goodwin, William Greaney, Lawrence Hobel, Georgia Kazakis, Ben Lenhart, Robert Sayler, and William Skinner
International Arbitration - Commercial: Mitchell Dolin, Oscar Garibaldi, Eugene Gulland, and Allan Moore
International Arbitration - Governmental: Oscar Garibaldi and Eugene Gulland
International Trade and Finance: Harvey Applebaum, Stuart Eizenstat, Peter Flanagan, Peter Lichtenbaum, and Peter Trooboff
Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity: Paul Rogers
Litigation - Antitrust: Thomas Barnett, Gregg Levy, and Anita Stork
Litigation - Banking & Finance: Robert Long, Stuart Stock, and Jean Veta
Litigation - Environmental: Don Elliott, Theodore Garrett
Litigation - ERISA: T. L. Cubbage, Julie Edmond, Robert Long, Richard Shea, and John Vine
Litigation - Intellectual Property: Alan Blankenheimer, Robert Fram, Simon Frankel, Robert Haslam, George Pappas, and Christopher Sipes
Litigation - Labor & Employment: Jeffrey Huvelle
Litigation - Patent: Robert Fram, Robert Haslam, Roderick McKelvie, George Pappas, Christopher Sipes, and Stanley Young
Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy): Bruce Baird
Litigation Securities: David Bayless
Litigation & Controversy - Tax: Robert Culbertson, William Paul, and Reeves Westbrook
Media Law: Yaron Dori and Kurt Wimmer
Mediation: Mitchell Dolin, Eugene Gulland, and Robert Sayler
Mergers & Acquisitions: David Brown, Len Chazen, Bruce Deming, and Bruce Wilson
Patent: George Pappas and Christopher Sipes
Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants: Chad Morriss
Product Liability Litigation - Defendants: Mike Brock, Patrick Davies, Mark Lynch, Keith Teel, and Theodore Voorhees
Real Estate: Robert Gage
Securities/Capital Markets: Bruce Bennett, David Engvall, Nora Gibson, and David Martin
Securities Regulation: Bruce Bennett and David Martin
Securitization and Structure Finance: Ira Palgon
Sports: Douglas Gibson, Gregg Levy, Bruce Wilson, and Peter Zern
Tax: Robert Culbertson, Roderick DeArment, Michael Levy, William Paul, Dirk Suringa, and Reeves Westbrook
Technology: Mark Plotkin
Trademark: George Pappas and Christopher Sipes
Transportation: Michael Rosenthal and Jack Schenendorf
Trusts and Estates: Doris Blazek-White
Water: Theodore Garrett
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