Nine WilmerHale partners were named 2019 Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers in America®, with the peer-review publication recognizing 114 lawyers from the firm overall.
Only one lawyer in a legal practice specialty within a region receives the distinction of Lawyer of the Year. The following WilmerHale partners from three different offices were selected after receiving high ratings from their peers:
Michael Bevilacqua, Trademark Law, Boston
Jay Bothwick, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Boston
Jamie Gorelick, Government Relations Practice, Washington DC
Natalie Hanlon Leh, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Denver
William McLucas, Corporate Governance Law, Washington DC
William Paine, Securities Regulations, Boston
Wayne Stoner, Litigation – Patent, Boston
Seth Waxman, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Washington DC
David Westenberg, Information Technology Law, Boston
Best Lawyers in America® compiles its lists of outstanding lawyers by conducting peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their peers. The complete list of WilmerHale lawyers included in the 2019 edition is below.
Boston
Michael Bain
Keith Barnett
Steven Barrett
John Batter
Michael Bevilacqua
Mark Borden
Jay Bothwick
Sean Boulger
Robert Burke
Douglas Burton
William Caporizzo
Robert Cultice
Lia Der Marderosian
Peter Dichiara
Stephen Edwards
Stuart Falber
Robert Fitzpatrick
David Gammell
Monica Grewal
Daniel Halston
Bonnie Heiple
Neil Jacobs
Paul Jakubowski
Stephen Jonas
Belinda Juran
Robert Keefe
Robert Kirsch
William Lee
Hal Leibowitz
Mark Matuschak
Cynthia Mazareas
Amy Null
William O'Reilly
William Paine
Edwin Pease
Lisa Pirozzolo
Rosemary Reilly
Roger Ritt
Andrea Robinson
Julie Rodgers
Gretchen Roin
Matthew Schnall
Laura Schneider
Emily Schulman
Amy Segal
John Sigel
Donald Steinberg
Wayne Stoner
Cynthia Vreeland
David Westenberg
Kimberly Wethly
Jonathan Wolfman
Denver
Benjamin Fernandez
Natalie Hanlon Leh
Michael Hazel
Kenneth Salazar
Mary Sooter
Andrew Spielman
New York
Richard Andersen
Philip Anker
Todd Blanche
Molly Boast
James Carter
Amy Doberman
Jay Holtmeier
Fraser Hunter
Boyd Johnson
Brian Johnson
Sharon Cohen Levin
Lori Martin
Bruce Newman
Charles Platt
Steven Singer
Roger Witten
Palo Alto
Peter Buckland
Mark Flanagan
Mark Selwyn
Washington DC
Paul Architzel
Charlene Barshefsky
Reginald Brown
Patrick Carome
Jonathan Cedarbaum
Louis Cohen
Meredith Cross
Christopher Davies
David Donovan
Reed Freeman
Craig Goldblatt
Jamie Gorelick
Brent Gurney
Franca Harris Gutierrez
Rachel Jacobson
Rachael Kent
Robert Kimmitt
Yoon-Young Lee
Bruce Manheim
Matthew Martens
Alejandro Mayorkas
William McLucas
Ronald Meltzer
Thomas Mueller
Robert Novick
David Ogden
Benjamin Powell
Howard Shapiro
Danielle Spinelli
Thomas Strickland
Raya Treiser
Naboth van den Broek
Seth Waxman
Harry Weiss
Thomas White
Paul Wolfson
Heather Zachary