The Best Lawyers in America recognizes 55 Venable lawyers:

(An asterisk (*) beside name indicates first year listed, (10) or (20) beside name indicates 10+ or 20+ years listed. The Best Lawyers in America, 2008.)

David G. Adams, FDA Law 
Robert G. Ames, Labor and Employment Law
James K. Archibald, Commercial Litigation
Jeffrey P. Ayres, Labor and Employment Law
Michael J. Baader, Business Transactions
Constance H. Baker (10), Health Care and Education
Maurice Baskin (*), Labor and Employment Law
Walter R. Calvert, Tax and Wealth Planning
Wallace E. Christner, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
Benjamin R. Civiletti (10), Corporate Defense/White Collar
Bryson L. Cook (10), Business Transactions
James E. Cumbie (*), Business Transactions 
William D. Dolan III, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and White-Collar Criminal Defense
Thomas W. France (*), Business Transactions
Stephen K. Gallagher, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
Lawrence H. Gesner, Real Estate Law
Ronald R. Glancz (*), Banking and Financial Services 
Jeffrey K. Gonya, Trusts and Estates
Robert G. Gottlieb, Real Estate Law
James E. Gray, Commercial Litigation
Jan K. Guben, Business Transactions
James J. Hanks, Jr., Business Transactions
Kenneth R. Hoffman, Employee Benefits
Philip M. Horowitz, Real Estate Law 
Elizabeth R. Hughes, Corporate Law
George W. Johnston (10), Labor and Employment
Lawrence A. Katz, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Paul F. Kemp, White-Collar Criminal Defense
A. Wayne Lalle, Jr., Construction Law
Jeanne L. Newlon (*), Tax and Wealth Planning
Brian J. O'Connor, Business Transactions
Peter P. Parvis (10), Health Care
Julie A. Petruzzelli (*), Intellectual Property Litigation
Jeffrey J. Radowich (10), Trusts and Estates
Russell Ronald Reno, Jr. (20), Real Estate
David E. Rice, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
Michael A. Sartori (*), Patent Prosecution
Michael Schatzow, Commercial Litigation
Barbara E. Schlaff, Employee Benefits
A. Christopher Sega, Trusts and Estates
James L. Shea (10), Commercial Litigation
Kevin Shepherd, Real Estate
Serena G. Simons (*), Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Robert G. Smith (10), Environmental
Judson W. Starr, Environmental Law and White-Collar Criminal Defense
Paul F. Strain, Product Liability and Toxic Torts
Margaret N. Strand, Environmental Law
Ronald W. Taylor, Labor and Employment
Stefan F. Tucker (20), Real Estate Law, Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates
Martha Jo Wagner (*), Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Robert L. Waldman, Tax and Wealth Planning
Thomas D. Washburne, Jr., Business Transaction Practice
Richard L. Wasserman (10), Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
James D. Wright (10), Real Estate

Venable received 16 practice group rankings and 31 lawyers were singled out in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA. Venable was noted for its "long history of investing the time to understand the needs of its clients and delivering exceptional client service." Venable attorneys and practice groups recognized in Chambers USA 2007 include:

Government: Government Contracts (Firm Band 3):
Thomas J Madden (Band 2)

REITs (Firm Band 3):
James Hanks (Band 2)
Sharon A Kroupa (Band 4)

District of Columbia
Environment (Firm Band 3):
Judson Starr (Band 2)
Joseph G Block (Band 4)
Margaret Strand (Band 4)

Real Estate (Firm Band 3):
Philip Horowitz (Band 2)
Stefan Tucker (Band 3)
Robert G Gottlieb (Band 4)

Maryland
Corporate/M&A (Firm Band 1):
Bryson Cook (Band 1)
James Hanks (Band 2)
Michael Baader (Band 2)
Thomas Washburne (Band 2)

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Firm Band 1):
Barbara E Schlaff (Band 1)

Healthcare (Firm Band 1)
Constance H Baker (Band 2)
Peter P Parvis (Band 3)

Labor & Employment (Firm Band 1):
Jeffrey Ayres (Band 1)
Robert Ames (Band 1)
Todd J Horn (Band 1)
Ronald W Taylor (Band 2)

Litigation: General Commercial (Firm Band 2):
James Gray (Band 2)
Paul Strain (Band 2)

Real Estate (Firm Band 1):
James Wright (Band 1)
Kevin Shepherd (Band 1)
Russell Reno (Band 1)

Virginia
Construction (Firm Band 3):
Wayne Lalle (Band 1)

Corporate/M&A: Northern Virginia (Firm Band 3):
Thomas W France (Band 2)

Labor & Employment (Firm Band 3):
David S Smith (Band 2)
Gregory J Ossi (Up and coming)

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations:
William Dolan (Band 1)

Real Estate: Northern Virginia (Firm Band 2):
M Jay Yurow (Band 2)

Eleven Venable Attorneys Selected for Who's Who Legal as the foremost legal practitioners in their field:
James K. Archibald - Product Liability
Benjamin R. Civiletti - Commercial Litigation, Corporate Governance
James J. Hanks, Jr. - Corporate Governance
Philip M. Horowitz - Real Estate
Judson W. Starr - Environment
Margaret N. Strand - Environment
Stefan F. Tucker - Corporate Tax, Real Estate
Bruce R. Parker - Product Liability
Kevin L. Shepherd - Real Estate
Paul F. Strain - Product Liability
Richard L. Wasserman - Insolvency & Restructuring

Two Venable lawyers recognized among the "Top 25 Privacy Experts" by Computerworld:
Emilio Cividanes
Stu Ingis
(Computerworld, October 18, 2007)

Two Venable lawyers are recognized as "Leading Lawyers" by Legal Times:
Stefan F. Tucker - Real Estate
Thomas J. Madden - Government Contracts
(Legal Times)

Eight Venable lawyers have been named by The Daily Record as exemplifying "Leadership in the Law":
James Archibald
W. Warren Hamel
Mitchell Y. Mirviss
Charles J. Morton, Jr.
Russell R. Reno, Jr.
James L. Shea
Kevin Shepherd
Craig Thompson
(The Daily Record)

Eight Venable lawyers are Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers:
James K. Archibald
William D. Coston
Benjamin R. Civiletti
William D. Dolan III
James E. Gray
Paul F. Kemp
James L. Shea
Gerard Treanor

Seven Venable lawyers are Fellows of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers:
Robert G. Gottlieb
Jan K. Guben
Philip M. Horowitz (ACREL president)
Russell R. Reno, Jr.
Kevin L. Shepherd (member, ACREL Board of Governors)
Stefan F. Tucker
James D. Wright

Venable partner A. Christopher Sega is Chair of the American Bar Association's Fiduciary Income Tax Committee, Taxation Section.


Venable partner Kevin L. Shepherd is Chair of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section.


Venable partner Jill B. Deal is Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Food and Drug Law Committee, Administrative Law Section.


Venable partner Jeanne L. Newlon is Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Fiduciary Income Tax Committee, Taxation Section.

Venable partner Constance H. Baker is a Fellow of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Venable lawyer Richard L. Wasserman is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

Martha Jo Wagner is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.

Two Venable lawyers are Fellows of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel:
Jeffrey J. Radowich
A. Christopher Sega

Venable partner Charles J. Morton, Jr. is President of the Association for Corporate Growth’s Maryland chapter.

We are proud to count among our attorneys many distinguished public servants:

U.S. Senate
The Honorable Birch E. Bayh Jr.

U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Asa Hutchinson

Cabinet Secretaries
Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti
Secretary of Transportation
James H. Burnley IV

Cabinet Undersecretaries
Undersecretary of Homeland Security
The Honorable Asa Hutchinson

Legislative Professional Staff
Legislation Counsel to the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation – E. Ray Beeman, Patricia M. McDermott, Samuel Olchyk

Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Raymond V. Shepherd III

Chief Counsel and Executive Director, Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution; Counsel, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Joseph G. Block

Counsel to the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Kevin O. Faley

Associate Special Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry Staff
Robert A. Shelton

Oversight Counsel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee
Raymond V. Shepherd III

Counsel and Policy Coordinator to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet; Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director and Counsel to Representative Fred Upton (R-MI); Legislative Director and Counsel to Representative Deborah Pryce (R-OH) 
William R. Nordwind

Legislative Director for Representative Wes Watkins (R-OK)
Robert L. Smith II

Executive Office of the President
General Counsel in the Office of Administration in the Executive Office of the President; Special Assistant to the President for Management; and Associate Counsel to the President
D.E. Wilson Jr.

Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Regulatory Affairs; Office of Management and Budget; and Counsel for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
John F. Cooney

Associate Counsel to the President
Karl A. Racine

Executive Agencies

Department of Commerce
Special Assistant to the General Counsel of the Department of Commerce
Jeffrey Kurzweil

Examiner-in-Chief (Administrative Patent Judge) at the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in the Patent and Trademark Office
Thomas G. Wiseman

Administrative Patent Judge on the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in the Patent and Trademark Office
Joan Ellis, Ph.D.

Examining Attorney of the Patent and Trademark Office
Mark B. Harrison

Department of Health and Human Services
Director, Policy Development and Coordination Staff; Associate Chief Counsel for Drugs, Office of the FDA Chief Counsel
David G. Adams

Patent Branch Chief, National Institutes of Health Office of Technology Transfer
Thomas G. Wiseman

Department of Human Urban Development
Special Assistant for Energy Affairs, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Anthony M. Carey

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney Asa Hutchinson  

Assistant U.S. Attorney
Constance H. Baker (Maryland)
William H. Devaney (New Jersey)
Geoffrey R. Garinther (Maryland)
W. Warren Hamel (Maryland)
Thomas J. Kelly Jr. (District of Columbia)
Michael Schatzow (Maryland; also Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, Hawaii)
Edward A. Smith (Southern District of New York)
Gerard Treanor (District of Columbia)

Senior Department of Justice Personnel
Administrator for Drug Enforcement Administration Asa Hutchinson

Associate Deputy Attorney General
James H. Burnley IV

Assistant Director, Civil Division
Ronald R. Glancz

Assistant to the Solicitor General
John F. Cooney

Chiefs of the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division
Judson W. Starr (Environmental Crimes Section) Joseph G. Block (Environmental Crimes Section) Margaret N. Strand (Environmental Defense Section)

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (District of Columbia)
Roger A. Colaizzi

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (Central District of California)
Donald W. Yoo

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (Virginia)
William D. Coston

Trial Attorney, Department of Justice Tax Division Brian L. Schwalb

Department of State
J. Alison Grabell served in the United States Foreign Service with the U.S. Information Agency as a cultural attaché at U.S. embassies in Paris and Vienna; as press attaché at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva; and for the U.S. Delegation to the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Belgrade

Department of the Treasury
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management and Acting General Counsel of the Treasury Deputy
D.E. Wilson Jr.

Deputy Comptroller for Bank Technology; Deputy Comptroller for Community and Consumer Compliance; Deputy Comptroller for Multinational Banking; and Director of Enforcement and Compliance, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Ralph E. Sharpe

Director, Litigation Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Ronald R. Glancz

Counsel to the Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Thomas H. Quinn

Attorney-advisor in the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service
Brian O'Connor

Independent Establishments and Government Corporations
Director, AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) Program of the Corporation for National and Community Service
James H. Burnley IV

Senior Attorney and Advisor in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau in the Public Safety and Private Wireless Division of the Federal Communications Commission
Ronald E. Quirk Jr.

Attorney, Office of General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission
Susan T. Edlavitch

Assistant General Counsel and Acting Deputy General Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ronald R. Glancz

Assistant General Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
John B. Beaty

Senior Attorney, International Section, Legal Division of the Federal Reserve Board
Peter E. Heyward

Assistant and Associate Director (international), Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission Edward F. Glynn Jr.

Chief Counsel, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center William L. Walsh Jr.

Assistant Director, Division of Enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission
Nancy R. Grunberg

Senior Assistant to the Chief Litigation Counsel, Division of Enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission
Treazure R. Johnson

State Cabinet Members
Virginia Secretary of Transportation
John G. Milliken

State Attorneys General
Alex Jonathan Brown (Maryland)
Anthony M. Carey (Maryland)
Hillary Sloane Gebler (Maryland)
Randolph Stuart Sergent (Maryland)
James L. Shea (Maryland)

State Attorney's General Offices
Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania
David W. Rutstein

Deputy Attorney General for Maryland; Chief of Litigation, Maryland Office of Attorney General
Paul F. Strain
  
State Agency Staff
Vice Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Virginia Port Authority
James H. Burnley IV
 
General Counsel to the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission
Claude E. Bailey

Assistant State’s Attorney, Assistant State's Public Defender and Deputy Federal Public Defender in Maryland
Paul F. Kemp

Counsel to the Rhode Island House of Representatives during the impeachment of the State Chief Justice
Robert A. Shelton

Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County
John B. Howard

Staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service
Karl A. Racine

Legislative Specialist in the Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Attorney General's Office
Lisa Jose Fales

Legislative Counsel at the Maryland General Assembly’s Department of Legislative Services
Teresa Burt Carnell

Regional Government
Chairman of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Derick P. Berlage

Member and Chair of the Board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
John G. Milliken

Chairman of the Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee; Member of the Committee on Transportation and Environment of the Montgomery County Council; Chairman and Montgomery County Representative to the National Capital Transportation Planning Board 
Derick P. Berlage

Assistant Administrator and General Counsel for The New York City Economic Development Administration
C. Stephen Heard Jr. 

Vice Chairman of Community Planning Board #1 (Queens County); New York City Council Representative on the New York City Financial Control Board
Ralph Miles

Member and Chair of Arlington County Board
John G. Milliken

City Manager, City of Falls Church, Virginia
David R. Lasso

General Counsel to the Board of Education for Baltimore County and Community Colleges
Arnold E. Jablon

Department of Permits and Development Management for Baltimore County
Arnold E. Jablon

Attorney for Baltimore County and Director of the Office of Zoning Administration and Development Management
Arnold E. Jablon

Executive Secretary, Maryland State Board of Ethics
Anthony M. Carey