WASHINGTON, DC, June 26, 2014 — The Legal 500 U.S. has ranked Covington & Burling in its top tier in eight practice areas and recognized 23 individual attorneys as “Leading Lawyers” in the directory’s 2014 edition. Additionally, Legal 500 “recommended” 42 Covington practice areas and 153 Covington lawyers.
The eight Covington practices given the top tier ranking are:
- Energy: Litigation
- Healthcare: Life Sciences
- Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
- Sport
- International Trade
- Trade Secrets
- Technology: Data protection and Privacy
- Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory
The 23 Covington attorneys named “Leading Lawyers” in their respective fields are:
- Mike Brock (Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices)
- Donald Brown (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Rob Culbertson (International Tax)
- Catherine Dargan (M&A: Large Deals)
- Mitchell Dolin (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Peter Flanagan (International Trade)
- Saul Goodman (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- William Greaney (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Nigel Howard (Technology: Transactions)
- Jeffrey Huvelle (ERISA Litigation)
- Richard Kingham (Healthcare: Life Sciences)
- Benedict Lenhart (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Peter Lichtenbaum (International Trade)
- Robert Long (Supreme Court and Appellate)
- Amy Moore (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation)
- William Paul (Financial Products)
- Mark Plotkin (Technology: Data Protection and Privacy)
- Mace Rosenstein (Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory & Transactional)
- Peter Safir (Healthcare: Life Sciences)
- Richard Shea (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation)
- William Skinner (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Sturgis Sobin (Patent Litigation: International Trade Commission)
- Lee Tiedrich (Patent Licensing and Transactional)
Legal 500 reviews the strengths and strategies of law firms in more than 90 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North and South America, and the Caribbean.
The complete list of Covington lawyers and practices identified in The Legal 500 U.S. 2014 guide can be found here.