June 05, 2025

Venable Attorneys and Practice Groups Make Significant Advancements on Chambers USA 2025 List

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Washington, DC (June 5, 2025) Chambers USA has released its 2025 list of law firm practice group and attorney rankings for the United States. Venable attorneys and practice areas made significant advancements, as they were newly named to the list or improved band rankings.

Among this year’s new additions include District of Columbia’s Intellectual Property: Litigation; Colorado’s Litigation: General Commercial; District of Columbia’s Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded; and Maryland’s Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations. In total, 99 attorneys and 38 practice areas are ranked at the national or state level.

Below is this year’s list of ranked practice areas and individual attorneys.

 

Practice Area Rankings

USA - Nationwide

Advertising: Litigation

Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory

Construction

Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)

Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation

Franchising

Government Contracts: The Elite

Leisure & Hospitality

Life Sciences

Political Law

Privacy & Data Security: The Elite

Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite

REITs: Maryland Counsel

Transportation: Road (Automotive)

Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory

California

Media & Entertainment: Litigation

Colorado

Litigation: General Commercial

District of Columbia

Intellectual Property: Litigation

Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution

Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets

Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded

Real Estate

Technology & Outsourcing

Florida

Bankruptcy Litigation

Florida: South

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Illinois

Construction

Maryland

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Corporate/M&A

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Labor & Employment

Litigation: General Commercial

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

Real Estate

New York

Construction

Intellectual Property: Patent

Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded

Virginia

Litigation: General Commercial

Virginia: Northern

Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use

 

Attorney Rankings

Advertising: Litigation

USA - Nationwide
  • Roger Colaizzi

Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory

USA – Nationwide
  • Ellen T. Berge
  • Len Gordon
  • Melissa Landau Steinman
  • Shannon Sansom

Antitrust: Litigation Specialists

District of Columbia
  • Lisa Jose Fales

Bankruptcy Litigation

Florida
  • Allison R. Day
  • Glenn D. Moses
  • John H. Genovese
  • Mariaelena Gayo-Guitian
  • Paul J. Battista

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Florida: South
  • Allison R. Day
  • Glenn D. Moses
  • Paul J. Battista
Maryland
  • Gregory Cross
  • Laura Bouyea

Construction

Illinois
  • Heidi Hennig Rowe
  • Kenneth M. Roberts
Maryland
  • John Prisbe
New York
  • Brian G. Lustbader
  • Gary L. Rubin
  • Katherine R. Peluso
  • Russell Wolfson

Corporate/M&A

Illinois
  • Thomas E. Keim Jr.
Maryland
  • Anthony J. Rosso
  • Carmen Fonda
  • Charles J. Morton Jr.
  • James J. Hanks Jr.
  • Michael D. Schiffer
  • Patricia McGowan
  • Thomas Washburne
  • W. Bryan Rakes

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

District of Columbia
  • Lisa Tavares
Maryland
  • Harry I. Atlas

Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)

USA – Nationwide
  • Gregory Wagner
  • Richard Powers
  • Steven Adducci

Environment

California
  • Tyler Welti

Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)

USA – Nationwide
  • Andrew Bigart

Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation

USA – Nationwide
  • Claudia A. Lewis

Franchising

USA – Nationwide
  • Michael D. Joblove
  • Nina Greene

Government Contracts

USA – Nationwide
  • Dismas Locaria
  • Paul A. Debolt
  • Scott Hommer

Healthcare

New York
  • Ari Markenson

Intellectual Property

Illinois
  • Adam Kelly

Intellectual Property: Litigation

District of Columbia
  • Frank Cimino

Intellectual Property: Patent

New York
  • Benjamin C. Hsing
  • Dominick A. Conde
  • Michael P. Sandonato

Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution

District of Columbia
  • Michele Frank
  • Richard Wells

Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets

District of Columbia
  • Andrew Price
  • Linda J. Zirkelbach
  • Rebecca Liebowitz

Labor & Employment

Colorado
  • Beth Ann Lennon
  • Heather Fox Vickles
Maryland
  • Ronald W. Taylor
  • Todd J. Horn

Litigation: Appellate

Maryland
  • Mitch Mirviss

Litigation: General Commercial

Colorado
  • James G. Sawtelle
  • Peter Koclanes
Maryland
  • Craig Thompson
  • Kenneth Thompson
  • Michael MacWilliams
  • Stacie E. Tobin
New York
  • Edward Boyle
  • Kostas Katsiris
Virginia
  • Michael W. Robinson
  • Nicholas M. DePalma
  • Taylor Chapman

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

District of Columbia
  • Mark Schamel
Maryland
  • Warren Hamel
New York
  • Samidh Guha

Media & Entertainment: Litigation

California
  • David E. Fink
  • Lee S. Brenner
  • Michael B. Garfinkel

Occupational Safety and Health

USA – Nationwide
  • Ronald W. Taylor

Political Law

USA – Nationwide
  • David Owens
  • Lawrence H. Norton
  • Ronald Jacobs

Privacy & Data Security: Adtech

USA – Nationwide
  • Emilio W. Cividanes
  • Michael Signorelli
  • Stuart P. Ingis

Privacy & Data Security: Privacy

USA – Nationwide

  • Emilio W. Cividanes
  • Julia Kernochan Tama
  • Stuart P. Ingis

 

Product Liability & Mass Torts

USA – Nationwide
  • Bruce Parker
  • Craig Thompson

Product Liability: Pharmaceutical

USA – Nationwide
  • Bruce Parker

Real Estate

District of Columbia
  • J. Michael Pickett
  • Joseph Creech
  • Philip Horowitz
  • Robert G. Gottlieb
  • Thomas C. Klanderman
Maryland

  • Kevin Shepherd

Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use

Maryland
  • Robert Hoffman
Virginia: Northern
  • Kedrick Whitmore

REITs: Maryland Counsel

USA – Nationwide
  • Brian Field
  • Carmen Fonda
  • Christopher W. Pate
  • Hirsh M. Ament
  • James J. Hanks Jr
  • Michael D. Schiffer 
  • Patricia McGowan

Technology & Outsourcing

District of Columbia
  • William Russell

Transportation: Road (Automotive)

USA – Nationwide
  • Ariel Wolf

Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory

USA – Nationwide
  • Ashley Craig
  • Elizabeth Lowe 

 

Chambers and Partners, a legal research company, determines its rankings of leading U.S. firms, legal departments, and attorneys through research and interviews with law firms, clients, and third parties. Chambers’ researchers assess attorneys on attributes valued most by clients, including capabilities, achievements, and sector presence. The complete list of Venable’s 2024 rankings in the Chambers USA guide can be found here.

Venable LLP is an American Lawyer Global 100 law firm headquartered in Washington, DC that serves as primary counsel to a worldwide clientele of large and mid-sized organizations, nonprofits, high-net-worth entrepreneurs, and other individuals. With more than 900 professionals across the country in California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Washington, DC, the firm strategically advances its clients’ objectives in the United States and around the globe. Venable advises clients on a broad range of business and regulatory law, legislative affairs, complex litigation, and the full range of intellectual property disciplines.