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08/22/2025

We’re delighted to introduce The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers.

This is the 2nd edition of this guide to advisors who specialize in development, finance, leasing, litigation, REIT structuring and more for commercial and residential properties at home and abroad.

Firms highlighted in this guide include:
Fried Frank
Gibson Dunn
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Pictured are Michelle Kelban of Latham, Nesa Amamoo of Skadden and Richard Kiefer of Cades Schutt LLP.

https://www.lawdragon.com/guides/2025-08-22-the-2025-lawdragon-500-leading-real-estate-lawyers

Michelle Kelban of Latham, Nesa Amamoo of Skadden and Rick Kiefer of Cades Schutte are among this year's Real Estate honorees.

08/12/2025

In his new book, “America’s Trial: Torture and the 9/11 Case on Guantanamo Bay,” Lawdragon editor John Ryan details his decade of experience as one of two journalists in the world reporting regularly from Guantanamo Bay on the case against the alleged 9/11 conspirators.

Ryan sat down to discuss his book – and the case, which he says is now facing "one of its greatest phases of uncertainty."

New book,“America's Trial: Torture and the 9/11 Case on Guantanamo Bay,” recounts 10 years of reporting by Lawdragon Editor-in-Chief John Ryan.

08/08/2025

We’re honored to introduce The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers.

These lawyers have answered the call to deliver justice nationwide to individuals who have faced sexual abuse, harassment, discrimination, violence and other abuses of power.

Firms highlighted in this guide include:

Altshuler Berzon LLP

Bailey & Glasser, LLP

Brown, Goldstein & Levy

Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP

Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd.

Katz Banks Kumin LLP

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP

Nichols Kaster, PLLP

Outten & Golden LLP

Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP

Tully Rinckey PLLC

Pictured are Sharon Iskra of Bailey Glasser, Saba Bireda of Sanford Heisler and Larry Golston of Beasley Allen Law Firm.

https://www.lawdragon.com/guides/2025-08-08-the-2025-lawdragon-500-leading-civil-rights-plaintiff-employment-lawyers

Sharon Iskra of Bailey Glasser, Saba Bireda of Sanford Heisler and Larry Golston of Beasley Allen are among this year's honorees.

08/06/2025

When negotiating high-stakes, cross-border, multibillion-dollar transactions, Morris DeFeo focuses on building consensus rather than sowing division.

"I’m a negotiator – not a table pounder,” says DeFeo. “If there is a solution to be had, I hope to find it.”

As partner and co-chair of Herrick, Feinstein LLP’s Corporate Department, DeFeo serves as a legal and business advisor to high-profile clients across a host of sectors and nations: https://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelights/2025-08-06-herrick-morris-f-defeo-jr-on-diplomatic-advisership-in-corporate-law

known for his collaborative, tactful and open-minded approach to practice, DeFeo been a key figure in international corporate law for more than 40 years.

08/04/2025

Steven Lieberman and Jennifer Maisel of Rothwell Figg are representing The New York Times and other prominent newspapers in high-stakes AI litigations that will have significant repercussions on AI and the media industry.

Read our conversation with them here: https://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelights/2025-08-04-meet-the-lawyers-suing-chatgpt-over-the-use-of-copyrighted-works

Steven Lieberman and Jennifer Maisel of Rothwell Figg are representing The New York Times and other prominent newspapers in high-stakes AI litigations that will have significant repercussions on AI and the media industry.

07/30/2025

When Bradley Cosgrove was 11 years old, his parents were driving into Chicago for work when a truck jackknifed their car, traumatically injuring them both. The legal battle that ensued inspired Cosgrove to become a plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyer, and within his first year in practice he became the youngest lawyer in the history of Illinois to receive a verdict in excess of $1M. Since then, the Clifford Law Offices partner has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars for individuals with stories like his own: https://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelights/2025-07-30-bradley-cosgrove-makes-plaintiffs-injury-law-personal

The Clifford Law partner has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for injured clients, inspired by a life-altering event as a child.

07/25/2025

We’re honored to introduce The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators.

This guide celebrates lawyers and firms in New York, London, Hong Kong, Ghana, Argentina, Singapore and beyond – litigators whose passports are always at the ready and whose abilities to parse languages, lands and legalities set them apart.

Just a few of the firms highlighted include:
A&O Shearman
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Gibson Dunn
Hogan Lovells
King & Spalding
Norton Rose Fulbright
Quinn Emanuel
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
White & Case LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP

Pictured are Marie Danis of August Debouzy, Nania Owusu-Ankomah Sackey of Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah and Patrick W. Pearsall of Gibson Dunn.

Join us in celebrating all of the recognized litigators: https://www.lawdragon.com/guides/2025-07-24-the-2025-lawdragon-500-leading-global-litigatorsag

Marie Danis of August Debouzy, Nania Owusu-Ankomah Sackey of Bentsi-Enchill and Patrick Pearsall of Gibson Dunn are among this year's honorees.

07/24/2025

From bagging groceries at the Winn-Dixie to taking on billion-dollar cases, Don Godwin's path in the law has been one defined by grit and fortitude.

Over the years, the Lawdragon Hall of Fame member and Godwin Bowman PC chairman has headed monumental cases, including oil and gas disputes, “bet the company” cases, environmental trials, fiduciary duty claims, will contests, major family law battles and business torts. But it all comes back to his ability to connect to jurors – to the common man.

"If they don't like you, they won't listen. If they won’t listen, they won’t believe you. And if they don’t believe you, they won’t give you what you’re asking for," says Godwin.

https://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelights/2025-07-24-where-grit-meets-the-gavel-don-godwin-self-made-path-to-legal-legend-status

The Lawdragon Legend went from the back aisles of a grocery store to the front lines of the biggest, most high-stakes litigation in American history.

07/21/2025

Some of powerhouse investor and consumer rights firm Pomerantz LLP’s most challenging and successful cases have been led by a triumvirate of powerhouse women partners: Emma Gilmore, Murielle Steven Walsh and Jennifer Pafiti.

From crucial cases against Deutsche Bank, Brazilian oil giant Petrobas, Wynn Resorts Ltd. and more, the three partners have consistently taken on litigation that has rocked powerful industries: https://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelights/2025-07-21-the-women-attorneys-achieving-some-of-pomerantz-greatest-successes

Some of the firm’s most successful cases have been led by a triumvirate of powerhouse women partners: Jennifer Pafiti, Murielle Steven Walsh and Emma Gilmore.

07/16/2025

For the last 35 years, the mission behind D'Amico Pettinicchi Injury Lawyers has been to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. In that time, the Connecticut-based team has paved the way for groundbreaking nursing home litigation, fought on behalf of injured special needs children and more:

The team of Connecticut attorneys tackle prominent nursing home litigation, medical malpractice and wrongful death cases and more.

07/11/2025

We’re thrilled to introduce The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation.

This is the third edition of the LDX guide, which celebrates the lawyers that provide a forecast of the fascinating future of global law practice.

They practice at firms around the world, including:

Boies Schiller Flexner
Bracewell
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Freshfields
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Susman Godfrey
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Winston & Strawn LLP

Pictured are Reagan Charleston Thomas, Esq. of Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, Ben Betner of Gibson Dunn and Priyanka Timblo of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg.

View the full guide: https://www.lawdragon.com/guides/2025-07-11-the-2025-lawdragon-500-x-the-next-generation?Token=172

Reagan Charleston Thomas (Aylstock Witkin), Ben Betner (Gibson Dunn) and Priyanka Timblo (Holwell Shuster) are among this year's honorees.

07/09/2025

Over the last 30 years at Herrick, Barbaros Karaahmet has built a practice that spans time, industries, and continents. As U.S.-based general counsel to multinational firms, Karaahmet advises on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures across global markets by cultivating meaningful, long-term relationships with international clients – from multinational corporations to families and family offices.

As Chief Operating Partner, he speaks about how Herrick's approach helps him craft those relationships:

https://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelights/2025-07-01-barbaros-karaahmet-cross-border-practice-at-herrick-has-traditional-roots

A recognized thought leader, he frequently lectures and publishes on international trade, real estate and cross-border business strategy.

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