Best Lawyers Names Covington’s Stuart Eizenstat and Gregg Levy Lawyers of the Year
August 18, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC, August 18, 2014 — Best Lawyers named Covington & Burling’s Stuart Eizenstat and Gregg Levy each a 2015 “Lawyer of the Year” in international trade and sports law, respectively, citing their “abilities, professionalism and integrity.” Overall, Covington lawyers received 217 individual mentions in 58 areas of law in the newly released annual survey by Best Lawyers.
Covington lawyers recognized by Best Lawyers:
Administrative/Regulatory: Jennifer Johnson, Robert Long, Kurt Wimmer
Antitrust: Harvey Applebaum, Thomas Barnett, Deborah Garza, John Graubert, Robert Sayler, Theodore Voorhees
Appellate: Gregg Levy, Robert Long, John Nields
Arbitration: Mitchell Dolin, Robert Sayler
Banking and Finance: Rusty Conner, Keith Noreika, David Rosinus, Stuart Stock, Jean Veta
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization: Dennis Auerbach, Michael St. Patrick Baxter
Bet-the-Company Litigation: Robert Haslam, Gregg Levy, Mark Lynch, George Pappas, Ethan Posner, Robert Sayler, Alan Vinegrad
Biotechnology: Jim Snipes
Commercial Litigation: Harvey Applebaum, Lanny Breuer, Donald Brown, Mitchell Dolin, Saul Goodman, Eugene Gulland, William Iverson, Gregg Levy, Robert Long, Mark Lynch, George Pappas, Will Phillips, Ethan Posner, Robert Sayler, Alan Vinegrad
Communications: Yaron Dori, Jennifer Johnson, Mace Rosenstein, Gerard Waldron, Stephen Weiswasser, Kurt Wimmer
Copyright: Simon Frankel, George Pappas, Christopher Sipes
Corporate: Rusty Conner, Philip Howard, Frederick Kanner, David Martin, Scott Smith, Jim Snipes
Corporate Compliance: Bruce Baird, David Bayless, Len Chazen, David Martin
Corporate Governance: Len Chazen, Philip Howard, David Martin
Criminal Defense - White Collar: Stephen Anthony, Bruce Baird, Lanny Breuer, Haywood Gilliam, Nancy Kestenbaum, Mark Lynch, John Nields, Ethan Posner, Alan Vinegrad
Derivatives and Futures: Bruce Bennett
Employee Benefits (ERISA): Julie Edmond, Amy Moore, Richard Shea, John Vine
Employment - Management: Jeffrey Huvelle, Thomas Williamson
Energy: William Massey, Richard Meserve
Environmental: Don Elliott, Theodore Garrett, Richard Meserve, Allan Topol
FDA: Scott Danzis, Ellen Flannery, John Hurvitz, Peter Barton Hutt, Richard Kingham, Michael Labson, Gerald Masoudi, Jeannie Perron, Peter Safir
Financial Services Regulation: Mark Plotkin, David Rosinus, Stuart Stock, Jean Veta, Edward Yingling
First Amendment: Kurt Wimmer
Government Relations: Stuart Eizenstat, Martin Gold, Jack Schenendorf
Health Care: Lanny Breuer, Ellen Corenswet, John Hurvitz, Peter Barton Hutt, Ethan Posner
Information Technology: Nigel Howard
Insurance: Donald Brown, John Buchanan, Mitchell Dolin, Anna Engh, Marialuisa Gallozzi, Saul Goodman, David Goodwin, William Greaney, Lawrence Hobel, Georgia Kazakis, Ben Lenhart, Martin Myers, Robert Sayler, William Skinner
International Arbitration - Commercial: Mitchell Dolin, Eugene Gulland, Allan Moore
International Arbitration - Governmental: Eugene Gulland
International Trade and Finance: Harvey Applebaum, Stuart Eizenstat, Peter Flanagan, Peter Lichtenbaum, Peter Trooboff
Labor - Management: Thomas Williamson
Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity: Paul Rogers
Litigation - Antitrust: Thomas Barnett, Gregg Levy, Anita Stork
Litigation - Banking & Finance: Robert Long, Stuart Stock, Jean Veta
Litigation - Environmental: Don Elliott, Theodore Garrett
Litigation - ERISA: T. L. Cubbage, Julie Edmond, Robert Long, Richard Shea, John Vine
Litigation - Intellectual Property: Alan Blankenheimer, Robert Fram, Simon Frankel, Robert Haslam, George Pappas, Michael Plimack, Christopher Sipes
Litigation - Labor & Employment: Jeffrey Huvelle, Thomas Williamson
Litigation - Patent: Maureen Browne, Robert Fram, Robert Haslam, Roderick McKelvie, George Pappas, Sturgis Sobin, Christopher Sipes, Stanley Young
Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy): Bruce Baird
Litigation Securities: David Bayless
Litigation & Controversy - Tax: Robert Culbertson, William Paul, Reeves Westbrook
Media Law: Yaron Dori, Kurt Wimmer
Mediation: Mitchell Dolin, Eugene Gulland, Robert Sayler
Mergers & Acquisitions: Rusty Conner, David Brown, Len Chazen, Bruce Deming, Bruce Wilson
Patent: George Pappas, Christopher Sipes
Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants: Chad Morriss
Product Liability Litigation - Defendants: Mike Brock, Patrick Davies, Mark Lynch, Keith Teel, Theodore Voorhees
Real Estate: Robert Gage
Securities/Capital Markets: Bruce Bennett, David Engvall, Nora Gibson, David Martin
Securities Regulation: Bruce Bennett, David Martin
Sports: Douglas Gibson, Gregg Levy, Bruce Wilson, Peter Zern
Tax: Robert Culbertson, William Paul, Dirk Suringa, Reeves Westbrook
Technology: Mark Plotkin
Trademark: George Pappas, Christopher Sipes
Transportation: Michael Rosenthal, Jack Schenendorf
Trusts and Estates: Doris Blazek-White
Water: Theodore Garrett