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Awards: Recognized by The National Law Journal as Lawyer of the Year Runner-Up in 2001, for Top Defense Verdicts in 1994 and 1997, and as a "Winning Lawyer" in 1997 and 2003.
Awards: Recognized as a Leading Individual Trial Lawyer in Chambers Global, 2007; one of the Best Lawyers in America for Business Litigation by Woodward & White; and a Super Lawyer in Law & Politics World's Media.
Awards: Named the Lawyer of the Year by the National Law Journal and runner-up for Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2000. Also recognized as The Antitrust Lawyer of the Year by the New York Bar Association and Commercial Litigator of the Year by Who's Who.
Awards: Recognized in Chambers USA 2009: America's Leading Lawyers for Business; Best Lawyers In America - 2009; and as a Leading Trial Lawyer in US Legal 500 - 2008.
Awards: Recognized as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States by the National Law Journal in 2006, and was listed in every edition of Chambers USA and Best Lawyers In America for Criminal Defense and Business Litigation.
Awards: Named to Super Lawyers 2009, The Best Lawyers in America, and Chambers USA 2009.
Awards: Named "One of the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers" by Euromoney Institutional Investor; "One of California's Leading Litigators" by Chambers; and "One of the Top 3 Trial Lawyers of Choice by General Counsel in California" by California Law Business.
Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. Our methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.
Civil rights law is the practice area of attorneys who advise individuals, businesses, and governmental entities about legal matters touching upon civil rights. Civil rights laws are varied, complex, and constantly evolving.
Criminal defense lawyers are in demand these days due to increased crime rate. Few lawyers are considered the authority on the subject and are often seen in news headlines. Criminal defense attorneys are the most demanded ones these days. With an alarming increase in crime rates, the demand for criminal defense lawyers has also increased manyfold.
Robert Shapiro was the member of a large team of lawyers that defended O. J. Simpson in the famous murder case of his wife. Another famous case he supported was for Kardashian family. He was recently Lindsay Lohan’s lowyer in the drug case, but he resigned after disagreements with his client. Go to top. 9 Dick Deguerin.
9 Dick Deguerin. Dick DeGuerin is famous for representing politicians in their criminal cases. His most famous case is that of Tom Delay, a former Republican Party House majority leader. The list of politicians he has represented is too long, and few have made it to the news headlines.
Bailey is known for his broad research and knowledge of his profession . It is said that when he speaks, his words are considered words from the textbooks of law. He is considered an expert in this specific type of cases and his juniors and seniors rank him quite high.
Another famous case she represented was that of Amanda Knox; she was accused of killing a British student on her visit to Italy. Bremner proved her worthiness to be among top criminal defense lawyers by successfully defending her client. Go to top. 5 Leslie Abramson.
Mark Geragos came into the limelight once he represented Susan McDougal, the famous case in which President Clinton, later on, pardoned the accused. After that, he has been considered as the celebrities’ expert criminal defense lawyer.
1 M. Gerald Schwartzbach. Gerald Schwartzbach has been a trial lawyer for over 40 years. He represented a defendant charged with shooting her police-officer husband and during so, he was one of the first to use the “battered woman defense”.
2. Ted Boutrous. Boutrous is the co-chair of Gibson Dunn‘s appellate and constitutional law groups, and we recently profiled him in the ATL Interrogatories.
Paul Clement. This list wouldn’t be complete without the patron saint of conservative causes. Once a clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia , Clement is now a partner at Bancroft. Last year, he unsuccessfully tried to overturn Obamacare, and now he’s trying to defend the Defense of Marriage Act before the Supremes.
Tom Goldstein. Once a partner at Akin Gump, Goldstein left the firm to return to his own practice. On top of his scholarly interests in constitutional law, Goldstein is perhaps best known for founding SCOTUSblog, the leading website for Supreme Court jurisprudence.