PHILADELPHIA, May 27, 2016—Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce its results in the Chambers USA survey of the American legal profession. Our attorneys received 64 citations for excellence. Our practices received 18 citations.
The 2016 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business is published by Chambers & Partners Legal Publishers of London. We invite you to read what Chambers USA says about Duane Morris’ practices and individual attorneys.
Practice Groups Cited
Chambers again singled out the success of the firm’s national Insurance, Construction and Immigration practice groups and awarded top-tier status to the firm’s Pennsylvania Healthcare practice and Construction practice and the California Insurance practice. Chambers cited the following practice groups, by state. In California, where the firm has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Silicon Valley and Lake Tahoe, the Insurance practice was cited. In Georgia, where the firm has an office in Atlanta, the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group was cited. In Pennsylvania, where the firm has offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, nine practice groups were cited: Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Banking and Finance, Construction, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Commercial Litigation and Real Estate. In Massachusetts, where the firm’s office is in Boston, the Bankruptcy/Restructuring practice group was cited. In New York, the firm’s New York City office was cited for Construction. In Washington, D.C., the Immigration practice group was cited. In Florida, where the firm has offices in Miami and Boca Raton, the Healthcare practice group was cited.
Individual Lawyers Honored in Chambers USA
Duane Morris Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John J. Soroko is listed as one of only five “Eminent Practitioners” in Pennsylvania, and one of the leading lawyers in Pennsylvania in the areas of both general commercial litigation and securities litigation. From offices around the country, Duane Morris lawyers honored by Chambers USA include:
Atlanta
Joseph A. Ciucci, Labor & Employment
Matthew C. Gaudet, Intellectual Property
Louis Norwood Jameson, Intellectual Property
Boston
Paul D. Moore, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Thomas H. Redekopp, Corporate/M&A (Up and Coming)
Chicago
Brian P. Kerwin, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
Charles B. Lewis, Construction
Nicholas J. Lynn, Healthcare
John R. Weiss, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Miami
Michael W. Casey III, Labor & Employment
Joanne B. Erde, Healthcare
Nanette O'Donnell, Healthcare
National
Sharon L. Caffrey, Product Liability & Mass Torts
Sheila Slocum Hollis, Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
Philip R. Matthews, Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer
Thomas R. Newman, Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer (Senior Statesman)
Denyse Sabagh, Immigration
Max H. Stern, Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer
Newark
Eric R. Breslin, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Lawrence W. Diamond, Environment
Walter J. Greenhalgh, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
New York
Frederick Cohen, Construction
Richard P. Dyer, Construction
Kenneth H. Lazaruk, Construction
Thomas R. Newman, Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer (Senior Statesman)
Allen J. Ross, Construction (Senior Statesman)
Arthur C. Silverman, Construction
Philadelphia
David R. Augustin, Real Estate
Donald R. Auten, Healthcare
Joseph A. Battipaglia, Construction
Marc D. Brookman, Real Estate
Lisa W. Clark, Healthcare
Peter J. Cronk, Intellectual Property
Rudolph J. Di Massa, Jr., Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Aleksander J. Goranin, Intellectual Property
James J. Holman, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Richard P. Jaffe, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
Matthew C. Jones, Healthcare
Lawrence J. Kotler, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
David E. Landau, Litigation: General Commercial
David E. Loder, Healthcare
Richard H. Lowe, Construction
Dianne A. Meyer, Banking & Finance
Michael M. Mustokoff, Healthcare and Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Robert A. Prentice, Construction (Senior Statesman)
Jonathan A. Segal, Labor & Employment
Thomas G. Servodidio, Labor & Employment
Kathleen M. Shay, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
Wendy M. Simkulak, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Up & Coming)
John J. Soroko, Litigation: General Commercial and Litigation: Securities (Eminent Practitioner)
Matthew A. Taylor, Litigation: General Commercial
David J. Wolfsohn, Intellectual Property
San Francisco
Andrew K. Gordon, Insurance: Insurer
Robert C. Hendrickson, Construction
Philip R. Matthews, Insurance: Insurer
Ron Oliner, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Lisa Spiegel, Immigration
Max H. Stern, Insurance: Insurer
Ray L. Wong, Insurance: Insurer
Washington, D.C.
Denyse Sabagh, Immigration
Wilmington
Michael R. Lastowski, Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Note: Duane Morris uses different names than those given here for its practice groups, but for clarity’s sake, Chambers’ terminology is used throughout this announcement.
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