Seyfarth was ranked among the Top 20 best performing law firms in the US by Legal 500 USA 2025. The rankings are based on Legal 500’s assessment of aggregated rankings for 343 firms across all practice areas.
Four Seyfarth practices earned Top-Tier rankings nationally: Construction Real Estate (including construction litigation), and three in Labor & Employment (Labor-management relations, Workplace and employment counseling, and Labor & Employment disputes).
Overall, 20 Seyfarth practices earned a Legal 500 USA ranking. The Real Estate practice advanced to Tier 2, joining eight other Seyfarth practices in that high-level category. A total of 120 individual Seyfarth lawyers earned rankings, including five attorneys who were cited in two separate practices and one who gained recognition in three different practice areas.
Fifteen individual Seyfarth lawyers achieved “Leading Partners” status, including Gary Friedman, who was granted the honor in two separate practice areas:
- Alison Ashford: Real Estate – Construction (including construction litigation)
- Lisa Damon: Labor & Employment – Workplace and employment counseling
- Diane Dygert: Labor & Employment – Employee Benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Gary Friedman: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters) and Labor & Employment – Workplace and employment counseling
- Lawrence Lorber: Labor & Employment – Workplace and employment counseling
- Andrew Lucano: M&A middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Douglas Mancino: Not-for-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax-Exempt Organizations)
- Ian Morrison: Labor & Employment – ERISA litigation
- Dawn Mertineit: Trade Secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Camille Olson: Labor and employment – Workplace and employment counseling
- Ofer Lion: Not-For-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax-Exempt Organizations)
- Vincent Sama: Securities litigation defense
- Kathleen Cahill Slaught: Labor & Employment – ERISA litigation
- Glenn Smith: Labor & Employment – Labor-management relations
- Michael Wexler: Trade Secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
Kate Perrelli and Leon Rodriguez were named to the Legal 500 USA Hall of Fame, joining six other Seyfarth lawyers in that exalted category:
- David Baffa: Labor & Employment – Workplace and employment counseling
- Gary Friedman: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions) – defense, and Workplace and employment counseling
- Bennett Greenberg: Real Estate – Construction (including construction litigation)
- Camille Olson: Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions) – defense
- Bill Perkins: Labor & Employment – Workplace and employment counseling
- Suzanne Saxman: M&A middle-market (sub-$500m)
Ten Seyfarth attorneys were spotlighted as Next Generation Partners:
- Edward Arnold: Government – Government contracts
- Aaron Gillett: M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A – middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Eric Greenberg: Real Estate
- Amy Hoang: Government – Government contracts
- Bryan O’Keefe: Labor & Employment – Labor-management relations
- Jaime Raba: Dispute Resolution – E-discovery
- Karla Sanchez: Labor & Employment – Labor-management relations
- Joshua Seidman: Labor & Employment – Workplace and employment counseling
- Michael Wagner: Real Estate – Construction (including construction litigation)
- Erica Bakies: Government – Government Contracts
Three Seyfarth attorneys were recognized as Leading Associates:
- Josh Salinas: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Breanne Vaclavik: M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A – middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Renate Walker: Labor and employment – Workplace and employment counseling
The Legal 500 provides an evaluation of the overall strength and depth of a practice group by analyzing confidential data from more than 300,000 commercial law firm clients to benchmark firms and lawyers by practice area; industry; jurisdiction; as well as by proprietary client satisfaction metrics, NPS®, and other qualitative and quantitative criteria.
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