Ranking tables
Litigation: General Commercial | USA
Massachusetts
Rankings overview for Departments
Band 2
Band 3
Senior Statespeople
- Daniel L Goldberg Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP21 Years Ranked
- Robert S Frank Jr Choate Hall & Stewart LLP21 Years Ranked
- Michael KeatingMeehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C.
Band 1
- Harvey J Wolkoff Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP16 Years Ranked
- James R Carroll Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates18 Years Ranked
- Joan Lukey Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP21 Years Ranked
- Jonathan M Albano Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP17 Years Ranked
- Martin M Fantozzi Goulston & Storrs10 Years Ranked
- Richard M Zielinski Goulston & Storrs17 Years Ranked
- Lisa GoodheartFitch Law Partners LLP
Band 2
- Anthony A Bongiorno Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP5 Years Ranked
- Christopher M Morrison Jones Day6 Years Ranked
- Kenneth J Parsigian Latham & Watkins LLP20 Years Ranked
- Michael J Connolly Hinckley Allen20 Years Ranked
- Michael N. Sheetz Cooley LLP3 Years Ranked
- Michael Tuteur Foley & Lardner LLP20 Years Ranked
- Robert Kaler Holland & Knight LLP14 Years Ranked
- Russell Beck Beck Reed Riden LLP14 Years Ranked
- Scott Ford Mintz2 Years Ranked
- Timothy W Mungovan Proskauer Rose LLP14 Years Ranked
- Lisa G ArrowoodArrowood LLP
Band 3
- Adam Gershenson Cooley LLP1 Years Ranked
- Andrew Dulberg WilmerHale1 Years Ranked
- Bruce Falby DLA Piper LLP (US)4 Years Ranked
- Charles Solomont Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP2 Years Ranked
- Jeffrey Robbins Saul Ewing LLP8 Years Ranked
- John Butts WilmerHale1 Years Ranked
- Joseph Lipchitz Saul Ewing LLP2 Years Ranked
- Lindsay Sampson Bishop K&L Gates1 Years Ranked
- Peter B. McGlynn Bernkopf Goodman LLP8 Years Ranked
- Wayne F Dennison Brown Rudnick LLP1 Years Ranked
- William 'BJ' Trach Latham & Watkins LLP5 Years Ranked
- Alan RoseRose Law Partners LLP
- Christopher DonnellyDonnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar LLP
- Sara ShanahanSherin and Lodgen LLP
Up and Coming
All Departments profiles
Band 1
1 GoodwinLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 1 | 20 Years RankedGoodwin has a standout team with experience appearing before courts across the USA, up to the Supreme Court. It has expertise spanning a range of industries, including real estate, manufacturing, technology and finance. The firm possesses skill in alternative dispute resolution and litigation avoidance. It is also noted for its defense of companies and individuals facing government investigation. Additionally, the group offers capability in handling healthcare fraud class actions. Its experience covers shareholder litigation and IPO disputes.1 Ropes & Gray LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 1 | 20 Years RankedRopes & Gray LLP has expert advisers across a myriad of complex commercial disputes and litigation arising from corporate transactions. It has a broad client base spans a variety of diverse industries, including financial services, life sciences and telecommunications. The team is also esteemed for its adept handling of high-profile securities litigation. It is experienced in working with shareholders, employees and consumers.1 WilmerHaleLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 1 | 19 Years RankedWilmerHale offers market-leading advice in areas such as securities litigation and complex civil disputes. The firm is acclaimed for its strength in cases involving IP matters. Its clients include Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds and financial services institutions. The group provides extensive expertise with respect to class actions and derivative claims.
Band 2
2 Choate Hall & Stewart LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 2 | 18 Years RankedChoate Hall & Stewart LLP has an established team of practitioners handling a broad range of commercial matters, including complex commercial litigation and both insurance and reinsurance disputes. It has particular expertise in private equity and venture capital M&A cases, with further experience in appellate proceedings. The firm offers additional strength in securities litigation.2 Goulston & StorrsLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 2 | 20 Years RankedThe Goulston & Storrs team is recommended for its handling of a broad range of business and commercial disputes, including real estate, banking and First Amendment litigation. It is singled out for its deep expertise in professional liability claims, particularly those involving legal industry participants. The firm represents clients in a range of sectors including education, healthcare and transportation.2 Latham & Watkins LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 2 | 5 Years RankedLatham & Watkins LLP has an impressive bench of seasoned commercial lawyers with extensive trial expertise. The team is well regarded for complex commercial disputes, business tort and product liability litigation. Its sector experience covers tobacco, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, among others.2 MintzLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 2 | 20 Years RankedMintz is widely respected for its broad capabilities across white-collar crime, securities litigation, bet-the-company commercial disputes and product liability matters. The team adroitly handles matters for both high-profile individuals and corporations. It is regularly called upon to represent clients in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, among others. The firm possesses a strong bench of experienced trial lawyers and regulatory experts.2 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 2 | 10 Years RankedMorgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP's Massachusetts litigation practice is highly thought of for its adept representation of clients across a range of sectors, including financial services and technology. The group is well known for its representation of public companies, hedge funds and individuals in civil disputes. It offers expert guidance in connection with complex commercial and securities litigation. The firm enjoys a strong client roster of market-leading and multinational corporations.2 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 2 | 19 Years RankedNutter McClennen & Fish LLP is recognized for its representation of a range of clients, including financial institutions, medical manufacturers and healthcare providers, in complex disputes before state and federal court. It has impressive capability in product liability and restrictive covenant actions.2 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & AffiliatesLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 2 | 16 Years RankedSkadden is a prominent firm providing top-tier counsel to financial institutions and multinational corporations, often in business-critical matters. Alongside its expert handling of commercial disputes, class actions and securities litigation, the firm offers guidance in alternative dispute resolution. The firm has notable expertise handling bet-the-company cases on behalf of the healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Band 3
3 Cooley LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 3 | 2 Years RankedCooley LLP offers considerable capabilities across securities and commercial litigation. The team regularly handles high-stakes fraud and class action cases. Its attorneys regularly work with life sciences and technology companies in Massachusetts and across the US.3 Foley Hoag LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 3 | 20 Years RankedFoley Hoag LLP is recognized for its adept representation of clients before both state and federal courts. Its areas of expertise include complex commercial disputes and IP litigation. Also highlighted for its expert representation of accounting firms in professional liability litigation. The team is sought after by major national clients for its additional capabilities in employment and insurance recovery litigation.3 Greenberg Traurig, LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 3 | 3 Years RankedGreenberg Traurig, PA has a noted litigation group with significant expertise handling a wide range of complex commercial disputes. It is frequently engaged to represent clients from a diverse array of industries, including financial services and real estate, as well as public bodies. The firm's experience extends to class actions and high-value securities disputes.3 Holland & Knight LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 3 | 7 Years RankedHolland & Knight represented Fiduciary Trust International before the Appeals Court of Massachusetts in connection with litigation challenging a merger it entered into, raising a series of complex Delaware law corporate governance and M&A issues.3 Jones DayLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 3 | 10 Years RankedJones Day is able to advise on a wide range of commercial disputes, including at trial and at appeal. The team offers particular expertise in IP litigation and draws upon further capabilities in securities class actions and product liability cases.3 Nixon Peabody LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 3 | 12 Years RankedNixon Peabody LLP has a well-regarded practice offering representation to clients operating in a diverse array of industries, including financial services, life sciences, technology and healthcare. It handles a broad range of commercial disputes and is also noted for its strength in alternative dispute resolution, including mediations and arbitrations. Its clients include corporates, institutions and individuals.3 Proskauer Rose LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 3 | 5 Years RankedProskauer Rose successfully represented Almanac Realty Investors and several principals of Almanac before the Delaware Court of Chancery, obtaining an anti-suit injunction barring investors in a commercial real estate portfolio from pursuing claims against defendants in Wisconsin.3 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 3 | 3 Years RankedQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP is an esteemed international litigation powerhouse with increasing recognition in the Boston market. It has notable ability in the representation of both plaintiffs and defendants from a broad range of industries. The firm is able to advise on the full range of complex commercial disputes.
Band 4
4 Brown Rudnick LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 4 | 2 Years RankedBrown Rudnick represented MGM and Wynn Resorts in two class actions brought in connection with blackjack payouts at the MGM Springfield casino and the Encore Boston Harbor Resort and Casino.4 Davis, Malm & D'Agostine, P.C.Litigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 4 | 2 Years RankedDavis, Malm & D'Agostine represented Cashman Equipment Corp. in a dispute with its former CFO concerning the discovery that she had provided herself with executive compensation and had caused a 49% ownership interest in a marine construction business to be transferred to herself from a trust of which she was a trustee.4 Foley & Lardner LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 4 | 19 Years RankedFoley & Lardner LLP is recognized for its broad expertise in complex commercial disputes and securities litigation. The team regularly acts for Fortune 500 companies, startups and venture capital firms, among others. It is noted for its handling of disputes arising from the healthcare and pharmaceutical fields. The firm is also active on behalf of clients in the gaming industry.4 Hinckley AllenLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 4 | 4 Years RankedHinckley Allen is a respected Northeastern firm regularly called upon to advise on a range of disputes, including IP and real estate litigation. Its clients include transport and office retail companies. The team is highly regarded for construction-related litigation.4 McDermott Will & Emery LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 4 | 19 Years RankedMcDermott Will & Emery LLP is highly commended for its strength in healthcare litigation, handling a range of matters including commercial disputes and arbitrations. It is particularly adept at defending against litigation arising from claims brought under the False Claims Act. The firm is a fine choice for antitrust, mass tort and data privacy litigation, as well as high-stakes class actions. It offers notable expertise in the healthcare sector, often acting for medical device and pharmaceutical companies.4 Saul Ewing LLPLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 4 | 2 Years RankedSaul Ewing LLP's Massachusetts-based litigation team handles disputes ranging across class and shareholder actions, malpractice and fiduciary litigation. The team is particularly accomplished in contentious work in the higher education space, regularly working on highly sensitive matters for well-known sector clients.4 Sullivan & WorcesterLitigation: General Commercial2023 | Band 4 | 1 Years RankedSullivan & Worcester successfully defended Belveron Real Estate Partners before the First Circuit, achieving affirmance of a state court dismissal of fraud and other claims based on the plaintiff's sale of an interest in certain real property.