Washingtonian Magazine Names Fifteen WilmerHale Attorneys to “Top Lawyers” List

Washingtonian Magazine Names Fifteen WilmerHale Attorneys to “Top Lawyers” List

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Washingtonian magazine recently named 15 of WilmerHale’s lawyers to the “Top Lawyers” list in its December 2009 issue. The list is made up of “Washington’s best minds,” and the top one percent of the area’s 80,000 lawyers, in 29 categories. Three of WilmerHale’s lawyers, Jamie Gorelick, William McLucas and Seth Waxman, are included on the list of top 30 elite “Stars of the Bar.”

The other WilmerHale attorneys included on this list are: Charlene Barshefsky (International Law), Craig Goldblatt (Bankruptcy), R. Scott Kilgore (Executive Compensation), William Kolasky (Antitrust and Competition), Martin Lybecker (Financial Services), Randolph Moss (National Security), Robert Novick (International Law), William Perlstein (Bankruptcy), Benjamin Powell (National Security), Howard Shapiro (National Security), Harry Weiss (Securities), and Laura Wertheimer (Securities).

For more information, please visit Washingtonian’s website.

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