184 Mintz attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers® in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Notably, three Mintz attorneys received 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” awards, and 62 firm attorneys were included in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

The “Lawyer of the Year” recognition is awarded to individual attorneys with the highest overall peer feedback for a specific practice area and geographic location. A highly competitive honor, only one lawyer is recognized as the "Lawyer of the Year" for each specialty and location. The following Mintz attorneys were named 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” award recipients:

• William Coffman – Immigration Law (Boston)
• Michael Fantozzi – Corporate Governance Law (Boston) 
• Adam Lenain – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice (San Diego)

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch awards recognize extraordinary lawyers who have been in private practice for less than 10 years in the United States. The following Mintz attorneys received a 2025 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recognition:

Boston

• Delaney Busch – Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Grady Campion – Insurance Law

• Smriti Choudhury – Real Estate Law

• Alex Civetta – Technology Law

• Leigh Colihan – Commercial Litigation

• Kara Cormier – Litigation: Patent

• Edmund Daley III – Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White Collar

• Suparna Datta – Litigation: Patent and Patent Law

• Emma Follansbee – Labor and Employment Law: Employee; Labor and Employment Law: Management; and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Katharine Foote – Commercial Litigation and Litigation: Trusts and Estates

• Katherine Galle – Commercial Litigation

• Frank Gerratana – Intellectual Property Law and Patent Law

• Alison Glover – Tax Law and Trusts and Estates

• Jacob Goodelman – Commercial Litigation and Energy Law

• Daniel Goodrich – Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White Collar

• Natalie Groot – Labor and Employment Law: Management and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Nicole Henry – Commercial Litigation

• Kaitlyn Leonard – Insurance Law

• Catherine Lombardo – Appellate Practice and Commercial Litigation

• Brendan Lowd – Labor and Employment Law: Management and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Alain Mathieu – Commercial Litigation and Entertainment and Sports Law

• Marguerite McConihe – Litigation: Patent

• Patrick McDonough – Litigation: Securities

• Mathilda McGee-Tubb – Appellate Practice; Commercial Litigation; Criminal Defense: White Collar; Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

• Kevin Mortimer – Construction Law

• Tom Pagliarini – Labor and Employment Law: Management and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Cassandra Paolillo – Health Care Law

• Adam Rizk – Intellectual Property Law and Patent Law

• Gabriel Rossman – Commercial Litigation

• Timothy Rousseau – Litigation: Intellectual Property and Litigation: Patent

• Kate Stewart – Health Care Law

• Kaoru Christopher Suzuki – Corporate Law

• Lavinia Weizel – Commercial Litigation and Litigation: Securities

Los Angeles

• Arash Ramineh Bahar – Immigration Law

• David Hanna – Health Care Law and Intellectual Property Law

• E. Crystal Lopez – Commercial Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

• Esteban Morales – Litigation: Banking and Finance and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

• William Rose - Intellectual Property Law

• Daniel Valenzuela – Land Use and Zoning Law and Real Estate Law

New York

• Kerime Akoglu – Litigation: Securities

• Amanda Asaro – Commercial Litigation

• Kaitlyn Anne Crowe – Litigation: Real Estate

• Alexandra Gallo-Cook – Litigation: Antitrust and Litigation: Securities

• Matt Gautier – Banking and Finance Law

• Gregory Jaske – Real Estate Law

• Joshua Rudin – Real Estate Law

• Ellen Shapiro – Commercial Litigation and Litigation: Securities

• Alex Song – Labor and Employment Law: Management

• Sophia Temis – Health Care Law

• Maarten Tuurenhout – Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law

• Kristen White – Litigation: Securities

• Benjamin Zegarelli – Health Care Law

San Diego

• Cesar Dulanto – Commercial Litigation

• Paul Huston – Labor and Employment Law: Management and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Jennifer Kim – Commercial Litigation

• Melanie Ruthrauff Levy – Corporate Law

• Valerie Phan – Commercial Litigation

• Nicole Rivers – Labor and Employment Law: Employee; Labor and Employment Law: Management; and Litigation: Labor and Employment

San Francisco

• Paige Adaskaveg – Commercial Litigation

• Geoffrey Friedman – Appellate Practice; Commercial Litigation; Criminal Defense: White Collar; and Litigation: Securities

Washington, DC

• Angela Kung – Communications Law

• Lauren Moldawer – Health Care Law

Finally, the following Mintz attorneys were included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America: 

Boston

• Lisa Adams – Patent Law and Trademark Law

• Nancy Adams – Insurance Law and Reinsurance Law

• Eóin Beirne – Criminal Defense: White Collar

• Peter Biagetti – Commercial Litigation

• Daniel Bleck – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Commercial Litigation

• Eric Blythe – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

• Dianne Bourque – Health Care Law

• Meghan Burke – Public Finance Law

• Thomas Burton III – Corporate Law; Energy Law; and Mergers and Acquisitions Law

• Jenny Chen – Patent Law

• John Cheney – Corporate Law

• William Coffman – Immigration Law

• Susan Cohen – Immigration Law

• Nicholas Cramb – Insurance Law

• Peter Cuomo – Litigation: Patent

• Deborah Daccord – Health Care Law

• Samuel Davenport – Commercial Litigation

• John Caleb Dougherty – Commercial Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

• Michael Fantozzi – Corporate Governance Law; Corporate Law; and Securities / Capital Markets Law

• Dean Farmer – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice; Litigation: Intellectual Property; and Patent Law

• Susan Finegan – Commercial Litigation

• Cory Flashner – Criminal Defense: White-Collar

• Scott Ford – Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law; Commercial Litigation; and Real Estate Law

• Steve Ganis – Banking and Finance Law

• Daniel Gaquin – Real Estate Law

• Matthew Gardella – Corporate Compliance Law; Corporate Governance Law; and Corporate Law

• William Geary III – Patent Law and Trademark Law

• Lewis Geffen – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice and Corporate Law

• Geri Haight – Employment Law: Management and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Douglas Hauer – Immigration Law

• Brent Henry – Health Care Law

• William Hill – Construction Law and Litigation: Construction

• Ellen Janos – Health Care Law

• William Kannel – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation: Bankruptcy

• Jennifer Kiely – Real Estate Law

• Martha Koster – Insurance Law

• Jonathan Kravetz – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice and Securities / Capital Markets Law

• Cynthia Larose – Privacy and Data Security Law

• Scott Lashway – Privacy and Data Security Law

• Meredith Leary – Commercial Litigation

• Rebecca Lee – Real Estate Law

• Breton Leone-Quick – Commercial Litigation

• Christopher Lisy – Privacy and Data Security Law and Technology Law

• Kim Marrkand – Insurance Law

• Christie Lombard Martin – Public Finance Law

• H. Andrew Matzkin – Employment Law: Individuals and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Kevin McGinty – Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions: Defendants

• Michael McNamara – Litigation: Intellectual Property

• William Meunier – Litigation: Intellectual Property and Litigation: Patent

• Peter Miller – Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law and Trusts and Estates

• Laurence Naughton – Corporate Law; Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law; and Venture Capital Law

• Poonam Patidar – Public Finance Law

• Edwin Pease – Corporate Law

• Jeffrey Porter – Environmental Law and Litigation: Environmental

• John Quill – Immigration Law

• Michael Renaud – Litigation: Intellectual Property; Litigation: Patent; and Patent Law

• Mark Robinson – Criminal Defense: White-Collar

• Adam Samansky – Litigation: Intellectual Property

• P. Miyoko Sato – Public Finance Law

• Laurence Schoen – Commercial Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation / Class-Actions – Defendants 

• Christina Sperry – Patent Law

• William Squires III – Environmental Law

• Samuel Tony Starr – Construction Law and Litigation: Construction

• Kurt Steinkrauss – Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law and Trusts and Estates

• Henry Sullivan – Commercial Litigation

• John Sylvia – Litigation: Securities

• Natashia Tidwell – Commercial Litigation

• William Whelan – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice and Securities / Capital Markets Law

• Alec Zadek – Corporate Governance Law

Los Angeles

• Kathryn Edgerton (Russo) – Health Care Law

• Daniel Guggenheim – Real Estate Law

• Siegmund Gutman – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice

• Erin Natter – Real Estate Law

New York

• Marc Abrams – Insurance Law

• Andrew Bernstein – Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Robert Bodian – Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Litigation: Labor and Employment; and Litigation: Securities

• Barry Bohrer – Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar

• Michelle Capezza – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law and Employment Law: Management

• Peter Chavkin – Criminal Defense: White-Collar

• Nathan Coco – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

• Therese Doherty – Commercial Litigation and Litigation: Securities

• Stephen Friedberg – Real Estate Law

• Richard Gervase Jr. – Litigation: Patent and Patent Law

• Jason Halperin – Criminal Defense: White-Collar

• Jeffrey Moerdler – Real Estate Law

• Steven Olenick – Sports Law

• David Siegal – Criminal Defense: White-Collar

San Diego

• Micha Mitch Danzig – Employment Law: Management and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Jeremy Glaser – Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Venture Capital Law

• Fred Hernandez – Patent Law

• Kenneth Jenkins – Patent Law

• Randy Jones – Commercial Litigation

• Adam Lenain – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice and Corporate Law

• Sebastian Lucier – Corporate Law

• Marc Morley – Patent Law

• Antony Nash – Litigation: Real Estate

• Daniel Pascucci – Commercial Litigation and Litigation: Intellectual Property

• Sean Prosser – Commercial Litigation; Corporate Compliance Law; Corporate Governance Law; Criminal Defense: White-Collar; and Litigation: Securities

• Scott Stanton – Corporate Governance Law; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities / Capital Markets Law

• Tali Tuchin – IT Outsourcing Law

• Michael Van Loy Ph.D. – Patent Law

San Francisco

• Marc Axelbaum – Criminal Defense: White-Collar

• Paul Churchill – Real Estate Law

• Daniel Herling – Commercial Litigation; Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants; and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

• Alexander Trimble – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice

• Jon Welner – Environmental Law; Litigation: Environmental; Natural Resources Law

Washington, DC

• David Barmak – Employment Law: Individuals and Litigation: Labor and Employment

• Tara Corvo – Communications Law

• Seth Davidson – Communications Law

• Tara Dwyer – Health Care Law

• Ellen MacDonald Farrell – Insurance Law

• Hope Foster – Health Care Law

• Russell Fox – Communications Law

• Laurence Freedman – Health Care Law

• Christopher Harvie – Communications Law

• Paul Kalish – Insurance Law

• Michelle Lipkowitz – Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar

• Karen Lovitch – Health Care Law

• Daniel Reing – Communications Law

• Bruce Sokler – Antitrust Law

• Thomas Scott Thompson – Communications Law

• Susan Neuberger Weller – Patent Law

Recognition by Best Lawyers is based exclusively on peer-review and employs a sophisticated, conscientious, rational, and transparent survey process designed to elicit meaningful and substantive evaluations of the quality of legal services. Learn more about the methodology here.

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