NEW YORK - (Business Wire)
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has named 138 lawyers from Sidley Austin LLP as leaders in their field in their 2008 guide. In addition to lawyer rankings, the Chambers guide ranks practices on a national and regional basis. Seventeen practice areas in Sidley
’s U.S. offices received number one rankings, and Sidley received 153 lawyer rankings for 138 recognized lawyers, including 33 number one rankings. In the 2007 guide, 109 Sidley lawyers were recognized.
The seventeen number one ranked practice areas are:
- National (6) – Capital Markets: Securitization, Capital Markets: Structured Products, Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Financial Services Regulation, Financial Services Regulation: Insurance Regulation, Investment Funds: Hedge Funds, Transportation: Rail (for Railroads);
- District of Columbia (2) – Environment, Litigation: Appellate;
- Illinois (9) – Antitrust, Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity, Environment, Insurance: Reinsurance Litigation, Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation, Media & Entertainment: Litigation.
Thirty-one Sidley lawyers achieved thirty-three individual number one rankings for their work in specific practice areas. Lawyers who received number one rankings in the National category include: Thomas W. Albrecht, Renwick Martin and Gary Stern for Capital Markets: Securitization; Renwick Martin and Robert J. Robinson for Capital Markets: Structured Products; Michael F. McEneney for Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Financial Services Regulation; Jeff S. Liebmann for Financial Services Regulation: Insurance Regulation; Andrew W. Shoyer for International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy; William D. Kerr and Michael J Schmidtberger for Investment Funds: Hedge Funds; Alan Charles Raul for Privacy & Data Security; and G. Paul Moates for Transportation: Rail (for Railroads).
In the Illinois category the following lawyers received number one rankings: James Clark for Banking & Finance; Lawrence Nyhan for Bankruptcy/Restructuring; David Carpenter for Communications; Thomas A. Cole and Frederick C. Lowinger for Corporate/M&A Richard W. Astle for Energy & Natural Resources: Transactional; Robert Olian for Environmental: Litigation; William M. Sneed and James R. Stinson for Insurance: Reinsurance Litigation; Michael P. Goldman and Kenneth R. Wylie for Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory; David T. Pritikin for Intellectual Property; Priscilla E. Ryan for Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation; Richard O’Brien for Media & Entertainment: Litigation; and Lee M. Smolen for Real Estate.
In the District of Columbia category the following lawyers all received number one rankings: Eugene R. Elrod for Energy: Oil & Gas; David Buente for Environment; Carter Phillips for Litigation: Appellate; and Dennis C. Hensley for Securities Regulation: Advisory.
In the New York category, Jeff S. Liebmann received a number one ranking in the Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory category.
Paul Walker of the Los Angeles office received a number one ranking in Real Estate in the California category.
A firm profile and complete rankings for Sidley are available on the Chambers USA website at: http://www.chambersandpartners.com/us/.
The U.K.-based international publisher Chambers and Partners based its report on in-depth interviews with 14,000 leading private practice lawyers and key in-house counsel. A team of over 40 full-time researchers conducted the survey over a six-month period, with law firms and lawyers chosen on merit only.
Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world's largest full-service law firms, with more than 1800 lawyers practicing in 16 U.S. and international cities, including Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Every year since 2003, Sidley has been named to Legal Business’ Global Elite, their designation for "the 15 finest law firms in the world." BTI, a Boston-based consulting and research firm, has named Sidley to their Client Service Hall of Fame as one of only two law firms to rank in the Client Service Top 10 for seven years in a row.
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