PHILADELPHIA, August 19, 2021 — Best Lawyers selected 210 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© (Copyright 2020 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). Lawyers were selected for inclusion in the 2022 edition based entirely on a peer-review process. This award is conferred by Best Lawyers. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Additionally, Frank Abramonte (Information Technology Law), Jeremiah G. Garvey (Securities/Capital Markets Law), Lorraine Linford (Trademark Law), Anne E. Mickey (Admiralty and Maritime Law), Joseph F. Quinn (Labor & Employment), Stephen Seeger (Construction Law), Anna Wermuth (Employment Law), A. Martin Wickliff, Jr (Labor Law), were designated as Best Lawyers® 2022 “Lawyer of the Year.”
Atlanta
Elliot Kerzner (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Danielle Le Jeune (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Kenan G. Loomis (Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance)
Charlotte
Jeremy L. Jones (Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance)
Cherry Hill
Thomas McKay III (Insurance Law)
Ira G. Megdal (Energy Law)
Michael J. Connolly (Energy Law)
Gregory Eisenstark (Energy Law)
Chicago
Jack J. Carriglio (Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
Janet R. Davis (Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance)
Amy M. Doig (Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
David R. Doyle (Bankruptcy) Ones to Watch
Robert M. Fishman (Bankruptcy)
Gary L. Gassman (Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance)
Tia C. Ghattas (Commercial Litigation)
Jeremy J. Glenn (Employment Law – Management)
Danielle Harris (Labor & Employment) Ones to Watch
Corey T. Hickman (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Jonathan Levy (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Elizabeth A. Olivera (Immigration Law) Ones to Watch
Peter J. Roberts (Bankruptcy/Insolvency)
Christina M. Sanfelippo (Bankruptcy) Ones to Watch
Brian Shaw (Bankruptcy)
Joseph E. Tilson (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Anna Wermuth (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management)
Dallas
Donnie Mike Apodaca (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
William Craven (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Alicia G. Curran (Insurance Law)
Stephen M. Halbeisen (Insurance Law)
Suzanne C. Radcliff (Insurance Law)
Denver
Brad W. Breslau (Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants)
Thomas Dunford (Insurance Law)
Houston
David L. Barron (Employment Law – Management)
Adam C. Gutmann (Labor and Employment Law – Employee, Labor and Employment Law – Management) Ones to Watch
Aaron Holt (Labor and Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment) Ones to Watch
Stephen P. Pate (Insurance Law)
Nandini Sane (Labor and Employment Law – Management) Ones to Watch
Julia Simonet (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
A. Martin Wickliff, Jr. (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Mediation)
Joseph A. Ziemianski (Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance)
Los Angeles
Maria Louis Cousineau (Litigation – Insurance)
Susan A. Grueneberg (Franchise Law)
Angel Marti III (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Howard D. Maycon (Litigation – Insurance)
Donald C. Nanney (Environmental Law)
Mark A. Talise (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Brett Nicole Taylor (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Miami
Arielle Eisenberg (Labor and Employment Law – Management) Ones to Watch
Susan N. Eisenberg (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
James A. Gale (Litigation – Intellectual Property, Patent Law)
Jonathan E. Gale (Litigation – Intellectual Property, Technology Law) Ones to Watch
Jahan S. Islami (International Mergers and Acquisitions, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Charles C. Kline (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Franchise Law, Insurance Law)
Samuel A. Lewis (Information Technology Law, Technology Law)
Martin T. Schrier (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Jennifer Taylor (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Minneapolis
Mayura Noordyke (Entertainment and Sports Law, Intellectual property, Litigation – Intellectual Property) Ones to Watch
Mark A. Jacobson (Litigation – Antitrust, Litigation – Intellectual Property)
Steven P. Katkov (Real Estate Law)
Edgar G. Rapoport (Leveraged Buyout and Private Equity Law) Ones to Watch
Thomas G. Wallrich (Real Estate Law)
New York
Melissa Brill (Insurance Law)
Laura Dowgin (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Geoffrey Ferrer (Admiralty and Maritime Law, Transportation Law)
Yehudah Gordon (Criminal Defense: White-Collar) Ones to Watch
John Ho (Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Daniel Levin (Real Estate Law) Ones to Watch
J. Bruce Maffeo (Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
Farrell J. Miller (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Anupama Prasad (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Frank A. Pugliese (Information Technology Law, Technology Law)
Emily Shoor (Real Estate Law) Ones to Watch
Christopher Raleigh (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
Philadelphia
Dylan Alper (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Leigh Ann Benson (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Isaac A. Binkovitz (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Joseph C. Bright (Tax Law)
Brian D. Burack (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Richard J. Busis (Corporate Law)
Jason Cabrera (Labor and Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment) Ones to Watch
Jonathan M. Ciriello (Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Dennis L. Cohen (Tax Law)
Stephen A. Cozen (Insurance Law)
Alfred J. D’Angelo (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management)
Raymond L. DeLuca (Construction Law)
Amanda DiChello (Trusts and Estates)
Jay A. Dorsch (Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law)
Martin Duffey (Insurance Law)
Elliott R. Feldman (Commercial Litigation)
Bruce W. Ficken (Construction Law, Litigation – Construction)
H. Robert Fiebach (Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Litigation – Real Estate, Litigation – Securities)
Brian P. Flaherty (Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Environmental)
Eric D. Freed (Insurance Law)
Robert I. Friedman (Trusts and Estates)
Thomas J. Gallagher III (Tax Law)
Mark H. Gallant (Health Care Law)
Henry A. Gladstone (Corporate Law)
Edward M. Glickman (Trusts and Estates)
Josh M. Greenbaum (Construction Law)
Howard Grossman (Real Estate Law)
Michael J. Hanlon (Education Law, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management)
Daniel Q. Harrington (Insurance Law)
Robert S. Hawkins (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management)
James H. Heller (Commercial Litigation)
Michael J. Heller (Corporate Law, Venture Capital Law)
Kevin. J. Hughes (Insurance Law)
Hayes H. Hunt (Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
Fred Warren Jacoby (Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Construction)
Daniel V. Johns (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Veronica Johnson (Real Estate Law) Ones to Watch
Matthew H. Kamens (Trusts and Estates)
Max Kaplan (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Sandra L. Kelly (Real Estate Law) Ones to Watch
Sarah A. Kelly (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Stephen Kempa (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Philip G. Kircher (Commercial Litigation)
Raymond A. Kresge (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
James M. Kwartnik (Construction Law)
Larry P. Laubach (Corporate Law)
Bernard Lee (Real Estate Law)
Jeffrey A. Leonard (Real Estate Law)
Lester E. Lipschutz (Trusts and Estates)
Elizabeth A. Malloy (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Suzanne S. Mayes (Public Finance Law)
Michael Melusky (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Stephen A. Miller (Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
Deborah M. Minkoff (Insurance Law)
Katharine E. Mooney (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Mark T. Mullen (Insurance Law)
Jeffrey I. Pasek (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Andrew J. Rolfes (Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Colleen Rush (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Venture Capital Law) Ones to Watch
Heidi R. Schwartz (Tax Law) Ones to Watch
Alexa Sebia (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Harper S. Seldin (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Jason M. Shargel (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Benjamin L. Shechtman (Labor and Employment Law – Management) Ones to Watch
Adam M. Silverman (Real Estate Law)
Robert A. Silverman (Real Estate Law)
Cheryl A. Upham (Tax Law)
George A. Voegele, Jr. (Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Joshua C. Weinberger (Tax Law)
Matthew I. Weinstein (Real Estate Law)
Thomas G. Wilkinson (Commercial Litigation, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants)
Benjamin I. Wilkoff (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Anna Will Kentz (Labor and Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment) Ones to Watch
James R. Williams (Real Estate Law)
Thomas P. Witt (Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law)
Eli S. Wolfe (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Venture Capital Law) Ones to Watch
Pittsburgh
Lynn Krisay Brehm (Employee Benefit (ERISA) Law)
Peter J. Ennis (Litigation – Labor and Employment)
James W. Forsyth (Tax Law)
Jeremiah G. Garvey (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation, Venture Capital Law)
Eugene A. Giotto (Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Health Care, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants)
Thomas S. Giotto (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management)
Tiffany A. Jenca (Labor and Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment) Ones to Watch
Jason Kreps (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Venture Capital Law) Ones to Watch
Jesse Loffler (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Brock E. McCandless (Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation – Real Estate, Real Estate Law) Ones to Watch
Mariah L. Passarelli (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Seth Popick (Corporate Law) – Ones to Watch
Joseph F. Quinn (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Maura L. Winters (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Richmond
Jerry W. Kilgore (Administrative/Regulatory Law, Government Relations Practice)
Thomas A. Lisk (Administrative/Regulatory Law, Gaming Law, Government Relations Practice)
San Diego
Kevin D. Bush (Litigation – Insurance)
Thomas M. Regan (Insurance Law)
Craig A. Schloss (Litigation – Labor and Employment)
San Francisco
Walter M. Stella (Employment Law – Management)
Brett C. Greving (Litigation – Labor and Employment) Ones to Watch
Santa Monica
Richard H. Close (Land Use and Zoning Law)
Jonathan S. Gross (Real Estate Law)
Diane J. Hvolka (Real Estate Law)
Paul S. Rutter (Real Estate Law)
Peter E. Swain (Real Estate Law)
Seattle, WA
Frank Abramonte (Copyright Law, Information Technology Law, Patent Law)
Peter Berg (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Nadia A. Bugaighis (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Anusha E. Jones (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
William Knowles (Insurance Law)
Lorraine Linford (Patent Law, Trademark Law)
Jodi McDougall (Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Insurance)
Avin S. Singh (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law) Ones to Watch
Terri A. Sutton (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Washington, D.C.
Barry Boss (Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
Rebecca Brodey (Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar) Ones to Watch
Eric J. DeBear (Real Estate Law) Ones to Watch
Marc J. Fink (Admiralty and Maritime Law, Transportation Law)
Daniel W. Hardwick (Real Estate Law)
James Grier Hoyt (Real Estate Law)
Jeffrey F. Lawrence (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
Hugh J. Marbury (Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants)
Milton A. Marquis (Litigation – Antitrust)
Anne E. Mickey (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
Meridith H. Moldenhauer (Real Estate Law)
Bernard Nash (Administrative/Regulatory Law, Government Relations Practice)
Lawrence M. Prosen (Arbitration, Construction Law, and Litigation-Construction)
Stephen M. Seeger (Arbitration, Construction Law, Litigation – Construction)
Stanley O. Sher (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
Barbara Van Gelder (Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
Rachel Welford (Transportation Law) Ones to Watch
West Conshohocken
Jonathan T. Hoffman (Family Law)
Nicholas A. Karwacki (Commercial Litigation) Ones to Watch
Patrick J. O’Connor (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation)
Margaret Gallagher Thompson (Litigation – Trusts and Estates, Trust and Estates)
West Palm Beach
Chad A. Pasternack (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Alexandra J. Schultz (Insurance Law) Ones to Watch
Wilmington
John T. Carroll III (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
Mark E. Felger (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law)