Legal 500 US 2018 has recognized Kramer Levin and its attorneys for excellence in a number of practice areas. Fifty-two attorneys were recognized across 14 practice areas, including 10 attorneys who were included on the elite Leading Lawyers list, and five attorneys who were included on the Next Generation Lawyers list.

The firm was ranked in the top tier in two categories:

  • Media, technology and telecoms – Advertising and marketing
  • Real estate – Land use/zoning

The firm was also recognized in the following areas:

  • Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense – advice to corporates
  • Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense – advice to individuals
  • Dispute resolution – General commercial disputes
  • Dispute resolution – Securities litigation: defense
  • Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
  • Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
  • Finance – Structured finance: securitization
  • Investment fund formation and management – Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
  • Labor and employment – Immigration
  • Labor and employment – Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
  • M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
  • M&A/corporate and commercial – Private equity buyouts
  • Real estate
  • Tax – US taxes: non-contentious

The following attorneys were included on the elite Leading Lawyers list:

Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense

  • Barry Berke
  • Gary Naftalis

Dispute resolution – Leading trial lawyers

  • Barry Berke
  • Gary Naftalis
  • Michael Dell

Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy) - corporate

  • Kenneth Eckstein

Finance – Structured finance – securitization

  • Gilbert Liu

Labor and employment – Immigration

  • Theodore Ruthizer

M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A – middle-market (sub-$500m)

  • Thomas Molner

Media, technology and telecoms – Advertising and marketing – litigation

  • Harold Weinberger
  • Norman Simon

Real estate – Land use/zoning

  • Paul Selver

The following attorneys were included on the Next Generation Lawyers list:

Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense – Next generation lawyers

  • Darren Laverne

Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy) - corporate – Next generation lawyers

  • Joshua Brody

Labor and employment – Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions) - defense – Next generation lawyers

  • Eliza Kaiser

M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A – middle-market (sub-$500m) - Next generation lawyers

  • Scott Abramowitz

Media, technology and telecoms – Advertising and marketing – litigation – Next generation lawyers

  • Eileen Patt

Attorneys were recommended as follows:

Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense

  • Barry Berke
  • Dani James
  • Gary Naftalis
  • Paul Schoeman

Dispute resolution – General commercial disputes

  • Alan Friedman
  • Barry Berke
  • Daniel Goldman
  • Gary Naftalis
  • Kerri Ann Law
  • Philip Kaufman

Dispute resolution – Leading trial lawyers

  • Barry Berke
  • Gary Naftalis

Dispute resolution – Securities litigation – defense

  • Alan Friedman
  • Arthur Aufses
  • Barry Berke
  • Gary Naftalis
  • John Coffey
  • Jonathan Wagner
  • Michael Dell

Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy) - corporate

  • Daniel Eggermann
  • Joshua Brody
  • Kenneth Eckstein
  • Thomas Moers Mayer

Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy) - municipal

  • Amy Caton
  • Kenneth Eckstein
  • Thomas Moers Mayer

Finance – Structured finance – securitization

  • Gilbert Liu
  • Jamie Kocis
  • Laurence Pettit

Investment fund formation and management – Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds

  • George Silfen
  • Ronald Feiman

Labor and employment – Immigration

  • Allison Gray
  • Mark Koestler
  • Matthew Dunn
  • Theodore Ruthizer

Labor and employment – Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions) - defense

  • Eliza Kaiser
  • Kevin Leblang
  • Robert Holtzman

M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A – middle-market (sub-$500m)

  • Eitan Tabak
  • Ernest Wechsler
  • Howard Spilko
  • James Moriarty
  • Jordan Rosenbaum
  • Scott Abramowitz
  • Scott Rosenblum
  • Thomas Molner
  • Todd Lenson

M&A/corporate and commercial – Private equity buyouts

  • Ernest Wechsler
  • Howard Spilko
  • James Moriarty

Media, technology and telecoms – Advertising and marketing – litigation

  • Eileen Patt
  • Harold Weinberger
  • Norman Simon

Real estate

  • James Godman
  • Jay Neveloff
  • Jonathan Canter
  • Neil Tucker

Real estate – Land use/zoning

  • Elise Wagner
  • Gary Tarnoff
  • Paul Selver

Tax – US taxes – non-contentious

  • Barry Herzog
  • Howard Rothman
  • Pamela Capps