LOS ANGELES, June 26, 2023 – Proskauer, a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has been named as one of Los Angeles Times’ Top 25 Law Firms in Corporate, Labor & Employment and Litigation in its  Leading Law Firms Survey. The inaugural survey also named Proskauer as one of the 100 Leading Law Firms in Los Angeles County.

The Firm earned recognition for advising on complex and novel issues and its best-in-class capabilities across its transactional and litigation practices. From asset managers and fast-growing companies to major sports leagues and entertainment industry giants, clients turn to Proskauer for the Firm’s sector-specialty and industry knowledge combined with our transactional and contentious strengths.

Recent landmark, first-in-kind transactions and matters that the Firm’s Los Angeles office advised on include:

• Advising NFT startup on first-ever funding round: Proskauer served as the primary advisor to Doodles, a brand-new NFT company, on its first-ever round of financing and corporate structuring. Doodles launched in October 2021 and within a year, became one of the most valuable NFT collections on the market, generating nearly $500 million in secondary trading volume. The company closed its funding round in September 2022, with $54 million of investment and a $704 million valuation.
• Key victories for multi-national company: Proskauer secured a landmark victory for Monsanto in a case brought by a woman claiming that the use of the herbicide Roundup caused her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A California jury rejected the claims, returning a defense verdict on all counts. The verdict in Stephens v. Monsanto marked the second defense verdict in the Roundup mass tort litigation. The Firm also secured its second decisive victory for Monsanto in a case brought by multiple plaintiffs who claimed Roundup caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A St. Louis jury roundly rejected these claims following a five-week trial, returning a complete defense verdict.
• Lead employment counsel to GRAMMY Organization: Proskauer is the lead employment counsel to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Recording Academy / THE GRAMMY Organization), a California-based, non-profit organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other recording professionals, as well as MusiCares, the charitable arm of the GRAMMY Organization. The Firm represents the organizations in all their employment matters, advice, counseling and litigation.

The firms selected for inclusion in the Los Angeles Times’ Business of Law survey were selected by the LA Times’ B2B publishing team based on total lawyer headcount and practice group headcount.

About Proskauer

We are 800+ lawyers serving clients from 12 offices located in the leading financial and business centers in the Americas, Europe and Asia. We work with asset managers, private equity and venture capital firms, Fortune 500 and FTSE companies, major sports leagues, entertainment industry legends and industry-redefining companies.

Since 1875, Proskauer has been devoted to our clients’ successes. Our lawyers are known for their unusually high accessibility, responsiveness and attentiveness. We go the extra mile to understand a client’s business — and think like savvy businesspeople in the process.