DLA Piper lawyers and practices ranked in The Legal 500 United States 2024 guide

In The Legal 500 United States 2024 list of firms with deep bench strength and national reach, DLA Piper received 66 firm rankings and 72 individual lawyer rankings, with a total of 443 lawyers recognized overall, representing a 33% increase in individual lawyer recognitions from last year.

Listed below are the firm rankings in their affiliated categories, as well as the ranked DLA Piper attorneys.

DLA Piper ranked Tier 1 in national and regional areas of practice, including:

• Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
• FinTech: Crypto
• International Tax
• Land Use/Zoning
• Outsourcing
• Patents: Licensing
• Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission)
• Private Equity Buyouts: Middle-Market (up to $500M)
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices - Defense
• Real Estate
• State Attorneys General
• Telecoms & Broadcast: Regulatory
• Telecoms & Broadcast: Transactional

DLA Piper ranked Tier 2 in:

• Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
• Advice to Insurers
• Cannabis
• E-Discovery
• Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
• Financial Products
• Fintech
• Patent Litigation: Full Coverage
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products (including Tobacco): Defense
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Actions - Defense: Toxic Tort
• REITs
• Structured Finance: Securitization
• Technology: Transactions
• Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing)
• US Taxes: Contentious
• Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
• Workplace and Employment Counseling

DLA Piper ranked Tier 3 in:

• Cartel
• Copyright
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
• Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
• Environment: Regulatory
• Environment: Transactional
• Insurance: Non-contentious
• Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
• Labor-Management Relations
• Life Sciences
• M&A Litigation: Defense
• M&A Middle-Market ($500M-999M)
• Media and Entertainment: Transactional
• Patents: Prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Automotive/Transport
• Securities Litigation – Defense
• Trademarks: Litigation
• US Taxes: Non-contentious

DLA Piper ranked Tier 4 in:

• Capital Markets Equity Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets Equity Offerings – Advice to Managers
• Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
• Construction (including Construction Litigation)
• Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
• Environment: Litigation
• General Commercial Disputes
• Government Contracts
• International Arbitration
• Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)
• Healthcare: Service Providers
• Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)

DLA Piper ranked Tier 5 in:

• M&A Large Deals ($1B+)
• Project Finance
• Project Finance: Energy and Power

DLA Piper ranked Tier 6 in:

• Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate

DLA Piper’s “Hall of Fame” lawyers include:

• Andy Serwin
• Benjamin Mulcahy
• Erin Gibson
• Michael Senkowski
• Nancy Victory
• Peter Yim
• Vincent Sanchez

DLA Piper’s “Leading Lawyers” include:

• Alison Maxwell
• Andrew Peck
• Antonio Calabrese
• Barbara Trachtenberg
• Brian Fielden
• Cara Nelson
• Carol Umhoefer
• Christopher Campbell
• Curtis Mo
• Diana Erbsen
• Eric DeSilva
• Frederick Klein
• Gerald Rokoff
• James Kelly
• Jeff Salinger
• Jeffrey Hare
• John Sullivan
• Joseph Silver
• Kate Brown de Vejar
• Keith Medansky
• Larissa Bifano
• Lisa Haile
• Loren Brown
• Margo Tank
• Mark Fowler
• Matthew Holian
• Michael Senkowski
• Nancy Victory
• Peter Karanjia
• Robert Bergdolt
• Shiukay Hung
• Stephen Schwab
• Ute Krudewagen
• Vernessa Pollard
• Victoria Lee

DLA Piper’s “Next Generation Partner” lawyers include:

• Bryan Connolly
• Christopher Stambaugh
• David Solander
• Frank Mugabi
• Helena Kiepura
• Jeffrey Tsai
• Katherine Jahnke Dale
• Katie Insogna
• Kiera Gans
• Kristin Jacobson
• Kyndra Joy Casper
• Lauren Rico
• Lucas Przymusinski
• Michael Hazzard
• Stephen Alicanti
• Tony Lin

DLA Piper’s “Rising Star” lawyers include:

• Anisa Mohanty
• Bianca LaCaille
• James Stewart
• John Wei
• Joseph Wolfe
• Mac Ferguson
• Oriana Montani
• Pete Young
• Peter Shroyer
• Victoria Gu