The Legal 500 United States 2025 Recognizes WilmerHale Lawyers and Practice Areas

The Legal 500 recognized WilmerHale across 39 practice areas in the 2025 edition. The guide also recognized six WilmerHale lawyers in its “Hall of Fame” for their practice areas, named 28 on the “Leading Partners” list, one as a “Leading Associate” and eight on the “Next Generation Partners” list.

The guide’s rankings are determined based on various criteria, including feedback from peers, clients and law firms to evaluate overall visibility and reputation. The recognized practice categories are as follows:

Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal): Appellate: Courts of Appeal

Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal): Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)

Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates

Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals

International Trade and National Security: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions

Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans - Transactional

Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including data privacy and data protection)

Ronald Meltzer (International Trade and National Security: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions)

Robert Novick (International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy

Seth Waxman (Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal and Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal))

Twenty-Eight WilmerHale Lawyers are named elite “Leading Partners” in their areas of practice:

Benjamin Powell (International Trade and National Security: CFIUS and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection))

Chris Barnstable-Brown (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))

David Ross (International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy)