Eight Practice Areas and 35 Lawyers Recognized as Best-in-Class

NEW YORK, October 28, 2025 – Proskauer is honored to announce that eight of its practice areas and 35 of its lawyers have been ranked in Benchmark Litigation’s 2026 U.S. guide.

The Firm’s Antitrust/Competition, Bankruptcy, Labor & Employment and Product Liability practices received a Tier 1 ranking and four were named Tier 2. Additionally, four of Proskauer’s offices were named leaders in their jurisdictions.

Partners Neil Abramson, Elise Bloom, Adam Lupion and Anthony Oncidi were named among the Top 50 Labor & Employment Lawyers for the third consecutive year, a testament to their steadfast leadership, deep legal acumen and influence in the field. In addition, partners Kyle Casazza, Susan Gutierrez, Vinay Kohli, David Munkittrick and Rachel Philion were named “Future Stars.” Widely regarded as “ones to watch,” they exemplify the next generation of talent shaping the future of the legal profession.

Proskauer’s Practice Rankings were:

• Tier 1
  • Antitrust/Competition
  • Bankruptcy
  • Labor & Employment
  • Product Liability
• Tier 2
  • Appellate
  • General Commercial
  • Intellectual Property
  • White Collar Crime

Earlier this year, partners Elise Bloom, Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks and Margaret Dale were named to Benchmark Litigation’s “Top 250 Women in Litigation” list and partners Stephen Chuk, Susan Gutierrez, Lee Popkin and Jeff Warshafsky were recognized in the publication’s “40 & Under” list.

Benchmark Litigation is widely known as the definitive guide to the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers. Rankings are determined based on extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients as well as analysis of the market’s most important cases and firm developments.

For a full list of Proskauer’s rankings, click here: Benchmark Litigation 2026

About Proskauer

The world’s leading organizations and global players choose Proskauer to represent them when they need it the most. With 800+ lawyers in key financial centers around the world, we are highly regarded for our expertise combined with our pragmatic and commercial approach. Proskauer is the place to turn when a matter is complex, innovative and game-changing. We work seamlessly across practices, industries and jurisdictions with asset managers, private equity and venture capital firms, Fortune 500 and FTSE companies, major sports leagues, entertainment industry legends and other industry-redefining companies.

Proskauer has a full-service litigation practice with extensive trial experience in virtually every major forum across the globe. We take a collaborative approach to representing defendants and plaintiffs, multinationals, middle-market and small-cap businesses, financial institutions, partnerships and individuals, with one thing in mind – driving successful outcomes for our clients.

Recent successful representations include a landmark victory for Sanderson Farms in a $7 billion broiler chicken antitrust conspiracy case; a decisive victory for Gilead Sciences, Inc. in a $3.6 billion antitrust case; a victory for Shamrock Capital Advisors in a high-profile $1 billion lawsuit brought by the founders and other minority shareholders of FanDuel; and representing Monsanto in a case brought by multiple plaintiffs who claimed Roundup caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.