The 2026 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 2026 edition, 26 S&C lawyers were named “Litigation Stars,” five were ranked as “Future Stars,” nine 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”
- Nicolas Bourtin—White Collar Crime
- James Bromley—Bankruptcy
- Jonathan Carter—Government and Regulatory, Securities, General Commercial Litigation
- Jacob Croke—White Collar Crime, Securities
- 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
- Dustin Guzior—Intellectual Property
- Renata Hesse—Competition/Antitrust
- Tracy Richelle High—Labor & Employment, Class Action
- Steven Holley—Competition/Antitrust
- 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
- Leonid Traps—Securities, General Commercial Litigation
- Alexander Willscher—White Collar Crime
“Future Stars”
- Andrew Finn
- Joseph Matelis
- James McDonald
- Ann-Elizabeth Ostrager
- Kamil Shields
“National Practice Area Stars”
- Nicolas Bourtin—White Collar Crime
- James Bromley—Bankruptcy
- Robert Giuffra—Securities
- Steven Holley—Antitrust
- Sharon Cohen Levin—White Collar Crime
- Sharon Nelles—Securities
- Steven Peikin—White Collar Crime
- Richard Pepperman—Securities, Competition/Antitrust, General Commercial Litigation, Class Action
- Robert Sacks—Securities
“Top 50 Labor & Employment Lawyers”
- Ann-Elizabeth Ostrager
- Julia Jordan
S&C is widely recognized as a leading litigation firm. This year, The New York Law Journal selected S&C as “Litigation Department of the Year” for General Litigation. Chambers USA ranks S&C’s General Commercial Litigation, Corporate Crime & Investigations, Securities Litigation and White Collar Crime & Government Investigations Practices in Band 1.