The 2025 edition of Benchmark Litigation (USA) recognized the strength and depth of S&C’s Litigation Group, ranking 31 litigation partners, seven practice groups and two offices, New York and Washington, D.C.
Benchmark Litigation’s guide to the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers is based on extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients, as well as analysis of the market’s most important cases and firm developments.
For the 2025 edition, 21 S&C lawyers were named “Litigation Stars,” nine were ranked as “Future Stars,” six as “National Practice Area Stars” and two as “Top 50 Labor & Employment Lawyers.”
S&C practice groups were ranked Tier 1 in Competition/Antitrust, General Commercial Litigation, Securities and White Collar Crime and Tier 2 in Bankruptcy, International Arbitration and Labor & Employment.
S&C’s lawyers are ranked in the following Benchmark Litigation categories:
“Litigation Stars”
- Garrard Beeney—Intellectual Property
- Nicolas Bourtin—White Collar Crime
- James Bromley—Bankruptcy
- Brendan Cullen—Securities, General Commercial Litigation, Class Action
- Amanda Davidoff—Securities, Competition/Antitrust, Appellate, General Commercial Litigation, Class Action
- Marc de Leeuw—Intellectual Property, Securities, Competition/Antitrust, General Commercial Litigation, Class Action
- Nicole Friedlander—White Collar Crime
- Robert Giuffra—Securities, Competition/Antitrust, General Commercial Litigation, Class Action, Product Liability, White-Collar Crime
- Renata Hesse—Competition/Antitrust
- Tracy Richelle High—Labor & Employment, Class Action
- Andrei Iancu—Intellectual Property
- Julia Jordan—Labor & Employment, Class Action
- Sharon Cohen Levin—White Collar Crime
- Diane McGimsey—Class Action, Labor and Employment, Competition/Antitrust
- Sharon Nelles—White Collar Crime, Securities, Competition/Antitrust, General Commercial Litigation, Consumer Goods and Services, Class Action, Product Liability
- Steven Peikin—White Collar Crime
- Richard Pepperman—Securities, Competition/Antitrust, General Commercial Litigation, Class Action
- Robert Sacks—General Commercial Litigation, Class Action, Securities, Competition/Antitrust
- Matthew Schwartz—Securities, Competition/Antitrust, Product Liability, General Commercial Litigation, Class Action
- Jeffrey Scott—Securities, Competition/Antitrust, Appellate, Class Action
- Karen Patton Seymour—White Collar Crime
- Alexander Willscher—White Collar Crime
“Future Stars”
- Jonathan Carter
- Jacob Croke
- Andrew Finn
- Dustin Guzior
- Joseph Matelis
- James McDonald
- Ann-Elizabeth Ostrager
- Kamil Shields
- Leonid Traps
“National Practice Area Stars”
- Garrard Beeney—Intellectual Property
- Nicolas Bourtin—White Collar Crime
- James Bromley—Bankruptcy
- Sharon Cohen Levin—White Collar Crime
- Richard Pepperman—Securities, Competition/Antitrust, General Commercial Litigation, Class Action
- Robert Sacks—General Commercial Litigation, Class Action, Securities, Competition/Antitrust
“Top 50 Labor & Employment Lawyers”
- Ann-Elizabeth Ostrager
- Julia Jordan
S&C is widely recognized as a leading litigation firm. Last year, The American Lawyer and The New York Law Journal selected S&C as “Litigation Department of the Year” for Financial Services. Chambers USA ranks S&C’s General Commercial Litigation, Corporate Crime & Investigations, Securities Litigation and White Collar Crime & Government Investigations Practices in Band 1.