BakerHostetler Attorneys, Practice Areas Recognized in The Legal 500 Guide for 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 16, 2021 - BakerHostetler is pleased to announce that the firm continued to increase its favorable rankings, across several practice areas as well as among individual attorneys, in the latest edition of The Legal 500 guide.

Since 2015, the firm has seen a marked increase in this prestigious recognition. Since then, the number of BakerHostetler practice areas recognized has more than doubled (from 13 practice areas to 27). In fact, in 2021 the firm had six practice areas receive an inaugural ranking or improve their ranking over the previous year. The number of attorney honors has also more than tripled (from 39 attorney honors in 2015 to 142 in 2021).

The following includes a full list of practice area and individual attorney rankings.

Practice Area Rankings

BakerHostetler was recognized in the following practice areas:

• Dispute Resolution: Civil Litigations/Class Actions: Defense (Tier 4) (improved)
• Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration (Tier 4)
• Dispute Resolution: International Litigation (Tier 3)
• Dispute Resolution: International Trade (Tier 4)
• Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense (Tier 4)
• Dispute Resolution: Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas (Tier 3)
• Dispute Resolution: Transport: Rail and Road - Litigation and Regulation (Tier 3)
• Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate (Tier 6)
• Healthcare: Advice to Service Providers (Tier 5)
• Intellectual Property - Copyright (Tier 3)
• Intellectual Property - Patent Litigation: Full Coverage (Tier 5) (improved)
• Intellectual Property - Patents: Prosecution (including Re-examination and Post-grant Proceedings) (Tier 4)
• Intellectual Property - Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-contentious Matters) (Tier 4)
• Intellectual Property - Trademarks: Non-Contentious (Including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing) (Tier 3)
• Labor and Employment - Employee Benefits and, Executive Compensation and Retirement plans: Design (Tier 4)
• Labor and Employment - Immigration (Tier 3)
• Labor and Employment - Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions): Defense (Tier 3) (improved)
• Labor and Employment - Labor-management Relations (Tier 3)
• Labor and Employment - Workplace and Employment Counseling (Tier 4) (new ranking)
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Corporate Governance (Tier 3)
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial - M&A: Middle-market ($500m-999m) (Tier 2)
• Media, Technology and Telecoms - Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory (Tier 2)
• Media, Technology and Telecoms - Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection and Privacy) (Tier 2)
• Real Estate (Tier 4) (improved)
• Tax - International Tax (Tier 4)
• Tax - U.S. Taxes: Contentious (Tier 4) (improved)
• Tax - U.S. Taxes: Non-contentious (Tier 6)

Individual Rankings

Partner Linda A. Goldstein was named to the 2021 Hall of Fame for Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory.

Partners Steven H. Goldberg (M&A/Corporate and Commercial - M&A: Middle-market ($500m-$999m)),Craig A. Hoffman and Theodore J. Kobus III (Media, Technology and Telecoms - Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Protection)) and Amy Ralph Mudge (Media, Technology and Telecoms - Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory) stood out as 'Leading Lawyers' in the 2021 guide.

For a second consecutive year Asim Grabowski-Shaikh was listed as a 'Rising Star' in in the M&A/Corporate and Commercial - Middle-Market ($500m-$999m) category.

Ranked as a 'Next Generation Partner' for a second year is Peter G. Fischer - Labor and Employment - Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions).

Attorneys listed as 'Recommended' include the following:

Civil Litigation/Class Actions Defense

• John R. Fornaciari
• Carl W. Hittinger
• Michael B. Holt
• Jeffrey D. Martino
• Ann M. O'Brien (new)
• Marc G. Schildkraut

Corporate Governance

• Suzanne K. Hanselman
• John J. Harrington (new)
• Charlotte W. Pasiadis (new)
• Janet A. Spreen
• Todd J. Thorson (new)

Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection)

• Melinda L. McLellan
• Jeewon Kim Serrato (new)
• Lynn Sessions (new)

Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration

• Mark A. Cymrot
• Sashe D. Dimitroff
• Analia Gonzalez (new)
• Paul M. Levine (new)
• Marco Molina (new)
• Kenneth B.

Dispute Resolution: International Litigation

• Mark A. Cymrot
• Sashe D. Dimitroff (new)
• Oren J. Warshavsky
• Gonzalo S. Zeballos

Dispute Resolution: International Trade

• Matthew W. Caligur
• Elliot J. Feldman
• Mark B. Lehnardt
• Barbara D. Linney
• Lana Muranovic
• Michael S. Snarr (new)
• Ragan W. Updegraff (new)
• Casey E. Weaver

Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation - Defense

• John J. Carney
• Douglas W. Greene

Healthcare: Advice to Service Providers

• Dorothy H. Cornwell (new)
• Mark Hatcher (new)
• Charlene L. McGinty (new)
• Frank C. Miller (new)
• Lynn Sessions

Industry Focus: Energy Litigation - Oil and Gas

• Mark S. Barron
• Poe L. Leggette
• Ray W. Whitman

Industry Focus: Transport - Rail and Road - Litigation and Regulation

• Billy M. Donley
• David R. Jarrett
• Elizabeth McNellie
• J. Keith Russell

Intellectual Property: Copyright

• Kevin M. Bovard (new)
• Chad A. Rutkowski
• Mark H. Tidman (new)
• Deborah A. Wilcox (new)

Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation - Full Coverage

• Michael E. Anderson (new)
• Christopher M. Arena (new)
• William C. Bergmann (new)
• Steven F. Borsand (new)
• Daniel J. Goettle
• Jason F. Hoffman (new)
• Meghan Rohling Kelly (new)
• Kevin W. Kirsch
• William Oxley (new)
• Kenneth J. Sheehan (new)
• Mark H. Tidman

Intellectual Property: Patent - Prosecution (Including Re-examination and Post-Grant Proceedings)

• Hussein Akhavannik (new)
• Christopher M. Arena (new)
• Brendan E. Clark (new)
• Steven B. Samuels (new)
• Kenneth J. Sheehan
• Mark H. Tidman
• Theresa M. Weisenberger (new)

Intellectual Property: Trademarks - Non-Contentious (Including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)

• Mark H. Tidman
• Deborah A. Wilcox

Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)

• Joyce Ackerbaum Cox
• M. Scott McIntyre (new)
• Patrick M. Muldowney (new)
• John Siegal (new)
• Mark D. Temple (new)

International Tax

• J. Brian Davis
• Jeffrey H. Paravano (new)

Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design

• Ann M. Caresani
• Raymond M. Malone
• Susan Nolan Lubow (new)
• Jennifer A. Mills
• Georgeann G. Peters

Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling

• Eric L. Barnum (new)
• Jason D'Cruz (new)
• Fanny A. Ferdman (new)
• David A. Grant (new)
• Nancy Inesta (new)
• Todd H. Lebowitz (new)
• Patrick M. Muldowney (new)
• Margaret Rosenthal (new)
• Sabrina L. Shadi (new)
• Amy J. Traub (new)

Labor and Employment: Immigration

• Fanny A. Ferdman (new)
• Matthew W. Hoyt
• James D. Levine
• Pamela Nieto
• Amy J. Traub (new)

Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions) - Defense

• Eric L. Barnum
• Scott M. McIntyre
• Gregory V. Mersol
• Margaret Rosenthal
• Sabrina L. Shadi
• Kevin W. Shaughnessy
• Peter J. Stuhldreher (new)
• Mark D. Temple (new)
• Amy J. Traub

Labor and Employment: Labor Management Relations

• M.J. Asensio
• Louis J. Cannon
• Jennifer E. Edwards (new)
• Peter G. Fischer
• David A. Grant
• Daniel J. Guttman
• Nancy Inesta (new)
• Jay P. Krupin
• Patrick M. Muldowney
• Ronald G. Linville
• Paul Rosenberg

Real Estate

• Robert H. Gebaide
• Joann Gallagher Jones (new)
• Amy E. Kellogg
• Gregory D. Lee (new)
• Wendy W. Markham (new)
• Michael J. Pappert (new)
• Jessica Parker Malchow (new)

Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate

• Michael T. Delaney (new)
• Elizabeth A. Green

Tax: US Taxes - Contentious

• Edward J. Bernert
• Nicholas C. Mowbray (new)
• Jeffrey H. Paravano
• Paul M. Schmidt
• Elizabeth Ann Smith (new)

Tax: US Taxes - Non-Contentious

• Michell M. Hervey (new)
• John R. Lehrer
• Jeffrey H. Paravano
• Paul M. Schmidt

Tax: International Tax

• J. Brian Davis
• Jeffrey H. Paravano

The Legal 500 assesses the strengths of law firms and organizes its findings into a single, national ranking, eschewing a state-by-state approach. According to The Legal 500, the 'principal aim is to provide a snapshot of the market based on our assessment of the overall strength and depth of a practice group.' The methodology employs an assessment that includes market research, client and peer feedback and law firm submissions.

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