June 6, 2019 (NEW YORK) – Proskauer has again been ranked as one of the top law firms in the 2019 edition of The Legal 500 United States, one of the leading independent legal referral guides. Based on independent research and feedback from clients, the Firm earned recognition across 52 practices, and a total of 148 lawyers were distinguished as among the best in their field, with 33 of those receiving leading lawyer or hall of fame recognition. Proskauer was newly ranked in Life Sciences and Media and Entertainment: Litigation.

Our first-tier rankings included:

• Labor & Employment: Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
• Labor & Employment: Employee Health and Retirement Plan
• Labor & Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Labor & Employment: Labor Management Relations
• Labor & Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling Sports
• Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Media, Technology & Telecoms: Advertising & Marketing: Litigation
• Sports

The Firm was also named a leader in the following practice areas:

• Advertising & Marketing
• Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions
• Appellate: Court of Appeals
• Appellate: Supreme Court (Federal and State)
• Capital Markets: Debt Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: Debt Offerings – Advice to Underwriters
• Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: Global Offerings – Advice to Underwriters
• Capital Markets: Global Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: High Yield Debt Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: High Yield Debt Offerings – Advice to Underwriters
• Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
• Commercial Lending: Advice to Lenders
• Copyright
• Corporate Investigation and White Collar Criminal Defense
• Cyber Law (including Data Protection & Privacy)
• Data Protection & Data Breach Response
• Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
• Environment: Transactional
• Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Managers
• General Commercial Disputes
• Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Healthcare: Service Providers
• Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
• International Tax
• Investment Fund Formation & Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
• Investment Fund Formation & Management: Mutual/Registered Funds/Exchange-Traded Funds
• Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Equity Funds
• Labor & Employment: Immigration
• M&A Corporate & Commercial: Large Deals ($1bn+)
• M&A Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
• Media and Entertainment
• Not-For-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Investment Trusts
• Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate
• Securities: Litigation Defense
• Technology: Data Protection & Privacy
• Technology: Outsourcing
• Technology: Transactions
• Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactional
• Trade Secrets
• Trademarks: Litigation
• U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious

Leading Lawyers:                                     

• Neil Abramson – Labor Management Relations
• Ann Ashton – Securities: Litigation Defense
• Mark Batten – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
• Martin Bienenstock – Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Elise Bloom – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
• Michael Choate – Real Estate Investment Trusts
• Stuart Coleman – Invest Fund Formation & Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
• Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks – Copyright
• Steven Ellis – Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
• Ralph Ferrara – Dispute Resolution: Securities: Litigation Defense
• Howard Ganz – Sports
• Joe Leccese – Sports
• Jeff Marwil – Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Jeffrey Neuburger – Technology: Outsourcing
• Amanda Nussbaum – Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Anthony Oncidi – Labor & Employment: Disputes (incl. Collective Actions): Defense
• Andrea Rattner – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation: Transactional
• Bradley Ruskin – Sports
• Neal Schelberg – Employee Health and Retirement Plan

Hall of Fame:

• Peter Fass – Real Estate Investment Trusts
• David Grunblatt – Labor & Employment: Immigration
• Paul Hamburger – Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
• Leslie Loffman – Real Estate Investments Trusts
• David Miller – Tax; US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Brendan O’Rourke – Advertising & Marketing
• Robin Painter – Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Equity Funds
• Betsy Plevan – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions); Labor & Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
• Bernard Plum – Labor & Employment: Labor Management Relations
• Myron Rumeld – ERISA Litigation; Appellate: Court of Appeals
• Paul Salvatore – Labor Management Relations
• Seth Schafler – Insurance Advice to Policyholders
• Howard Shapiro – ERISA Litigation
• Larry Weinstein – Advertising & Marketing

Next Generation:

• Guy Brenner – Labor & Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
• Stacy Cerrone – ERISA Litigation
• Evandro Gigante – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
• Susan Gutierrez - General Commercial Disputes
• Russell Hirschhorn – ERISA Litigation
• Nathan Lander – Insurance Advice to Policyholders
• Joshua Miller – Employee Benefits & Exec Compensation: Transactional
• Steven Porzio – Labor Management Relations
• Seth Safra – Labor & Employment: Employee Health and Retirement Plan
• Frank Saviano – Sports
• Jurate Schwartz – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)

Rising Stars:

• Elizabeth Down - Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
• Rachel Philion – Labor & Employment: Disputes (incl. Collective Actions): Defense
• Maja Zerjal – Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate