Ranking tables
Labor & Employment | USA
Arizona
Rankings overview for Departments
Band 2
Senior Statespeople
Eminent Practitioners
Band 1
John Alan Doran Taft21 Years Ranked
John F Lomax Jr Snell & Wilmer LLP18 Years Ranked
Joseph T Clees Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC23 Years Ranked
Mark G Kisicki Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC15 Years Ranked
Mary Ellen Simonson Womble Bond Dickinson US LLP13 Years Ranked
Michael D Moberly Clark Hill PLC22 Years Ranked
Stephanie J Quincy Greenberg Traurig, LLP18 Years Ranked
Band 2
Band 3
Andrea Lovell Littler Mendelson, PC11 Years Ranked- D Lewis Clark Jr Squire Patton Boggs16 Years Ranked
Jill J Chasson Coppersmith Brockelman PLC4 Years Ranked
L Eric Dowell Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC12 Years Ranked- Laura Lawless Squire Patton Boggs10 Years Ranked
Laura Pasqualone Womble Bond Dickinson US LLP4 Years Ranked
Leah Freed Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC8 Years Ranked
Thomas M Stanek Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC5 Years Ranked- Carrie FrancisStinson LLP
- David SeldenPSGM Law
- James Burr Shields IIShields Petitti & Zoldan, PLC
- Jeffrey ToppelBianchi & Brandt
All Departments profiles
Band 1
1 Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PCLabor & Employment2025 | Band 1 | 19 Years RankedOgletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC has a market-leading practice, providing a full-service offering and advising clients on both noncontentious and contentious matters, including complex or high-stakes reputational issues. The firm offers unrivaled practice area litigation experience, a particularly substantial traditional labor law capability and expertise in issues such as discrimination.
Band 2
2 Littler Mendelson, PCLabor & Employment2025 | Band 2 | 16 Years RankedThe Arizona arm of national giant Littler Mendelson has recognized experience in the litigation and arbitration of an exhaustive range of labor and employment issues, including class actions and discrimination suits. The firm leverages its national footprint to work for a wide array of small businesses and large companies in such sectors as healthcare, in addition to public sector clients.2 Snell & Wilmer LLPLabor & Employment2025 | Band 2 | 19 Years RankedSnell & Wilmer LLP has a full-service practice covering a broad array of labor and employment issues. The group regularly advises clients on discrimination, harassment, and wage and hour questions, with further signature strengths including restrictive covenant matters. The firm is also prominent in class action litigation, collective bargaining agreements and wrongful terminations.
2 Squire Patton BoggsLabor & Employment2025 | Band 2 | 13 Years RankedSquire Patton Boggs is a 360-degree labor and employment firm which is able to act on a state, regional or national basis for both domestic and international clients. The group is active both in complex litigation and administrative agency tribunal cases and in the provision of day-to-day employment and traditional labor law advice, the latter often linked to the formulation of dispute avoidance strategies. It represents a diverse clientele, from sectors including energy, healthcare, hospitality and manufacturing.
2 TaftLabor & Employment2025 | Band 2 | 9 Years RankedTaft provides comprehensive coverage of all labor and employment issues, with particular expertise in the traditional labor space. The law firm is also prominent in restrictive covenant, trade secrets and unfair competition disputes, as well as large-scale collective employment cases, and increasingly active in conducting internal investigations on behalf of employers. The group is regularly sought out by clients from the food and logistics sectors.
2 Womble Bond Dickinson US LLPLabor & Employment2025 | Band 2 | 9 Years RankedWomble Bond Dickinson is a full-service firm offering expertise in both contentious and noncontentious employment matters. The group is well equipped to handle issues relating to restrictive covenants, wage and hour claims, EEOC charges and a broad spectrum of discrimination cases. The firm offers additional assistance with internal investigations and performance management schemes.
Band 3
3 Ballard Spahr LLPLabor & Employment2025 | Band 3 | 7 Years RankedBallard Spahr LLP is a well-regarded labor and employment practice offering wide-ranging expertise to employers. It showcases notable strength in contentious issues, including contract disputes, wage and hour, harassment and retaliation claims. The firm has additional capabilities in handling claims relating to FMLA and FLSA.
3 Clark Hill PLCLabor & Employment2025 | Band 3 | 19 Years RankedClark Hill PLC has a specialist team providing a full service for contentious and advisory mandates and covering both employment and traditional labor issues, including industrial relations. The firm is especially well known for its litigation and arbitration capability, representing clients in unfair dismissal cases, discrimination claims and FLSA class actions. It acts extensively for automotive, mining and technology industry players.
3 Coppersmith Brockelman PLCLabor & Employment2025 | Band 3 | 19 Years RankedCoppersmith Brockelman PLC is a specialist employment practice focused on the local market but fully equipped to act at the regional or national level for Arizona-headquartered clients, most notably major healthcare providers. The firm is equally active on advisory and contentious mandates, and able to provide employment law services to companies of all sizes. It also has strength in handling alleged violations of the FMLA and ADA, and proceedings before the EEOC.
3 Greenberg Traurig, LLPLabor & Employment2025 | Band 3 | 9 Years RankedGreenberg Traurig, LLP possesses extensive litigation experience and regularly acts on a wide range of complex mandates, including discrimination, wrongful termination and retaliation claims. The group further assists clients with breach of contract and trade secrets theft disputes. Its diverse client base includes healthcare and technology sector players.
3 Jackson Lewis P.C.Labor & Employment2025 | Band 3 | 16 Years RankedJackson Lewis P.C. has a respected practice, representing corporations on a range of contentious and noncontentious mandates, including trade secrets, wrongful demotion, and wage and hour issues. The firm also offers experience regarding Section 7 unfair labor practice claims for non-union employers and often acts on behalf of sports industry clients on various labor and employment matters.