Paul Hastings Multidisciplinary Litigation Team Once Again Recognized in Benchmark Litigation USA 2025

Paul Hastings LLP’s national litigation team received several rankings in the 2025 edition of Benchmark Litigation USA, spanning multiple practice categories and numerous individual partners. This includes five practice rankings and 25 individual rankings.

Our litigators help secure successful outcomes and are recognized for guiding high-profile, global clients in first-of-their-kind or precedent-setting cases.

The firm was recognized in the following practice areas:

Nationwide Labor and Employment – Tier 1

Paul Hastings is a nationwide market leader for complex employment law and human capital issues. Our team regularly navigates evolving and cutting-edge employment issues, high-profile single-plaintiff claims, class and other mass litigation, regulatory investigations, and enforcement actions, as well as providing advice and direction on compliance issues. Paul Hastings is consistently sought out to assist with the largest and most challenging matters in this arena.

Nationwide Intellectual Property – Tier 2

Paul Hastings’ Intellectual Property practice advises clients on important, complex IP matters, providing innovative solutions for our clients’ challenges with a track record of success in patent and trade secret litigation and other IP disputes in trial and appeals courts, at the PTAB and the ITC, and in arbitral tribunals. The team has experience in over 200 proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, helping clients navigate this emerging and critical form of patent proceeding.

California Dispute Resolution – Highly Recommended

District of Columbia Dispute Resolution – Recommended

New York Dispute Resolution – Recommended

Paul Hastings advises clients on all aspects of high-stakes government investigations, litigation, and corporate compliance, including anti-corruption and FCPA, global trade controls, privacy and data security, securities enforcement, and white-collar matters. In conjunction with the wider litigation practice, the team has played leading roles in major investigations in over 100 countries.

Individual Lawyer Recognitions

1. Elena Baca – Labor and Employment Star; Litigation Star
2. Allyson Baker – Litigation Star
3. Brad Bondi – Litigation Star; National Practice Area Star
4. Jennifer Conn – Litigation Star
5. Jay Darden – Litigation Star
6. Eric Dittmann – Litigation Star; National Practice Area Star
7. Adam Fee – Future Star
8. Daniel Fliman – Future Star
9. Kenneth Gage – Labor and Employment Star; Top 50 Labor & Employment Litigator
10. Jayme Goldstein – Future Star
11. Kris Hansen – Litigation Star; National Practice Area Star
12. Kurt Hansson – Litigation Star
13. Kenneth Herzinger – Litigation Star; California Litigation Star
14. Matthias Kamber – Litigation Star; California Litigation Star; National Practice Area Star
15. Robert Luskin – Litigation Star
16. Kwame Manley – Litigation Star
17. Steven Marenberg – Litigation Star; California Litigation Star
18. Naveen Modi – Litigation Star
19. Ken Pasquale – Litigation Star; National Practice Area Star
20. Barry Sher – Litigation Star; National Practice Area Star
21. Carter Simpson – 40 & Under List Northeast
22. Sara Tomezsko – Future Star
23. Avi Weitzman – Litigation Star
24. Bruce Wexler – Litigation Star; National Practice Area Star
25. K. Whitner – Litigation Star

 

About Paul Hastings

With widely recognized elite teams in finance, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, restructuring and special situations, litigation, employment, and real estate, Paul Hastings is a premier law firm providing intellectual capital and superior execution globally to the world’s leading investment banks, asset managers, and corporations.