Kelley Drye Recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2026 Rankings
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized across 12 practice areas and numerous individual attorneys have been honored in The Legal 500 United States 2026 edition.
The firm’s lawyers received three “Hall of Fame” rankings, three “Leading Partner” rankings, two “Next Generation Partner” rankings, and more than 25 were “Recommended” in their respective practice areas.
The firm was also recognized in 12 practice areas:
- Advertising: Transactional and Regulatory
- Advertising & Marketing: Litigation
- Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy & Data Protection)
- Environment: Litigation
- International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
- Labor & Employment Disputes: Defense
- M&A: Middle-Market
- Outsourcing
- Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Consumer Products
- Telecoms & Broadcast: Regulatory
- Trademarks: Litigation
- Trademarks: Non-Contentious
Hall of Fame
The following attorneys were inducted into The Legal 500 Hall of Fame, recognizing their sustained excellence and longstanding client impact:
- Tim Lavender — M&A: Middle-Market
- Paul Rosenthal — International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
- John Villafranco — Advertising & Marketing: Litigation
Leading Partners
- Alysa Hutnik — Cyber Law
- Lauri Mazzuchetti — Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products
- Becca Wahlquist — Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products
Next Generation Partners
- Jennifer Norkus — M&A: Middle-Market
- Brooke Ringel — International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
Recommended Attorneys
The following Kelley Drye attorneys were recognized as Recommended Attorneys in the 2026 edition:
- Michael Adelstein – M&A: Middle-Market
- Aaron Burstein – Cyber Law: Data Protection and Privacy
- Andrea Calvaruso – IP – Trademarks Litigation and IP – Trademarks Non-Contentious
- Thomas Cohen – Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory
- Michael Dover – Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory
- John Gilmour – Environment: Litigation
- Ioana Gorecki – Advertising and Marketing: Litigation
- John Herrmann – International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
- Barbara Hoey – Labor & Employment: Defense
- Alysa Hutnik – Cyber Law – Data Protection and Privacy
- William Jackson – Environment: Litigation
- Henry Kelly – Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory
- Mark Konkel – Labor & Employment: Defense
- Blythe Lovinger – Labor & Employment: Defense
- Alan Luberda – International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
- Michael Lynch – Trademark Litigation
- Lauri Mazzuchetti – Advertising and Marketing: Litigation
- Donnelly McDowell – Advertising Law: Transactional and Regulatory and Advertising and Marketing: Litigation
- Deepak Nambiar – M&A: Middle-Market
- Kelli Ortega – Trademarks: Litigation and Trademarks: Non-Contentious
- Carrie Owens – International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
- Andrew Pillsbury – M&A: Middle-Market
- James Saylor – Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products
- Christie Grymes Thompson – Advertising Law: Transactional and Regulatory
- Laura Riposo VanDruff – Cyber Law: Data Protection and Privacy
- John Villafranco – Advertising Law: Transactional and Regulatory
- Becca Wahlquist – Advertising & Marketing: Litigation
- Patricia Werner – Trademarks: Non-Contentious
- Chip Yorkgitis – Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory
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