Faegre Drinker Practices and Attorneys Earn Rankings in Chambers USA 2026 Guide

Chambers USA has recognized Faegre Drinker in its 2026 edition, highlighting the firm in 98 practice area categories and 239 attorney designations on its list of America’s leading lawyers.

Of the 98 total practice ratings for excellence, including 25 nationwide sections, the firm earned “Band 1” designations — the publication’s highest ranking — in 23 categories across practice areas in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Nationwide.

Below are Faegre Drinker’s 2026 rankings (*denotes “Band 1” designation):

USA – Nationwide

• Artificial Intelligence
• Capital Markets: Investment Grade Debt: Issuer Counsel
• Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Energy Transition
• Environment
• False Claims Act
• Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation*
• Franchising
• Government Contracts: The Elite
• Health Care: The Elite
• Higher Education
• Impact Investing
• Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets
• International Trade: Customs
• International Trade: Export Controls and Economic Sanctions: Highly Regarded
• Labor & Employment
• Life Sciences
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
• Native American Law
• Native American Law: Finance*
• Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded
• Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite
• Registered Funds

California

• Labor & Employment: The Elite

California: Los Angeles & Surrounds

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Colorado

• Construction
• Corporate/M&A
• Environment
• Immigration
• Intellectual Property*
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial
• Real Estate

Delaware

• Bankruptcy/Restructuring
• Chancery
• Intellectual Property

District of Columbia

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Health Care
• Insurance: Insurer
• Intellectual Property: Litigation
• Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
• Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

Illinois

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Health Care
• Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• Technology & Outsourcing

Indiana

• Antitrust*
• Construction*
• Corporate/M&A*
• Environment
• Health Care*
• Intellectual Property*
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial*
• Litigation: Product Liability*
• Real Estate

Iowa

• Corporate/M&A
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial*

Minnesota

• Antitrust*
• Capital Markets: Debt & Equity*
• Construction*
• Corporate/M&A*
• Health Care
• Immigration
• Intellectual Property*
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial*
• Litigation: Product Liability*
• Real Estate*

New Jersey

• Bankruptcy/Restructuring
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Environment
• Health Care
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial
• Litigation: Product Liability
• Real Estate*

New York

• Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded*

Pennsylvania

• Antitrust
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Environment
• Insurance
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations*
• Real Estate: Finance

Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds

• Banking & Finance*
• Bankruptcy/Restructuring
• Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
• Litigation: General Commercial
• Real Estate

Texas

• Insurance

Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds

• Litigation: General Commercial

Individual Attorneys (sorted by Faegre Drinker practice group)

Benefits and Executive Compensation

• Summer Conley – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (California: Los Angeles & Surrounds)
• Mona Ghude – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Pennsylvania)
• Sarah Bassler Millar – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Joan M. Neri – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (New Jersey)*
• Kendra Roberson – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (District of Columbia)
• Michael D. Rosenbaum – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)

Construction and Real Estate Litigation

• Brian Clifford – Construction (Indiana)*
• Laurence DeMuth III – Construction (Colorado)
• James J. Hartnett IV – Construction (Minnesota)
• Michael Lapicola – Construction (Colorado)
• Deb Mackay – Construction (Minnesota)
• Bernard Nodzon, Jr. – Construction (Minnesota)*

Corporate

• Michael B. Abbott – Corporate/M&A (Iowa)
• David W. Barrett – Corporate/M&A (Indiana)
• Trevor J. Belden – Corporate/M&A (Indiana)
• James Birge – Corporate/M&A (Indiana)*
• Jeffrey Brown – Corporate/M&A (Indiana)*
• W. Morgan Burns – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Minnesota); Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
• Michael Coddington – Native American Law: Finance (USA – Nationwide)
• Stephen D. D. Hamilton – Tax (Pennsylvania)
• Miko Hernandez – Native American Law: Finance (USA – Nationwide)*
• Eli Isaacs – Corporate/M&A (Indiana)
• Kaili Janus – Banking & Finance (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Yana Johnson – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (California: San Francisco, Silicon Valley & Surrounds)
• Steven C. Kennedy – Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
• Daniel W. Krane – Insurance (Pennsylvania)
• John Marcil – Corporate/M&A (Colorado)
• Brandon Mason – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Minnesota); Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
• Matthew H. Meyers – Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Ryan R. Miske – Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
• Jonathan Nygren – Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
• Dawn Holicky Pruitt – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Minnesota)*
• Keith Radtke – Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
• F. Douglas Raymond III – Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)*; Corporate/M&A: Securities (Pennsylvania)*
• Judith E. Reich – Banking & Finance (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)*
• Brian B. Schnell – Franchising (USA – Nationwide)*
• Amy C. Seidel – Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
• Kate Sherburne – Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
• Jeffrey Sherman – Corporate/M&A (Colorado)
• Benjamin A. Stacke – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Minnesota)*
• Matt Stamski – Corporate/M&A (Colorado)
• Michael A. Stanchfield – Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)*
• Eirik Tellefsen – Banking & Finance (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Tyler Vivian – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Minnesota)
• Justin Watkins – Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Douglas R. Wright – Corporate/M&A (Colorado)
• Brittney Yocum – Corporate/M&A (Indiana)
• Jonathan Zimmerman – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Minnesota)*; Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)

Finance and Restructuring

• Joseph Argentina – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Ian Bambrick – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Delaware)
• Brett D. Fallon – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Delaware)
• Scott F. Gautier – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (California)
• Patrick Jackson – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Delaware)
• Andrew C. Kassner – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Jaclyn Marasco – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Delaware)
• James Millar – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New York)
• Michael Pompeo – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New Jersey)
• Frank Velocci – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New Jersey); Health Care (New Jersey)

Government and Regulatory Affairs

• Jessica Abrahams – Government Contracts (USA – Nationwide)
• Bonnie Allyn Barnett – Environment (Pennsylvania)*
• Leigh Bausinger – Environment (Pennsylvania)
• Carrie Connolly – International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy (USA – Nationwide)
• Mary Devlin Capizzi – Privacy & Data Security: Health Care (USA – Nationwide)
• Thomas Duncan – Environment (Pennsylvania)
• Nicolas Guzman – International Trade: Customs (USA – Nationwide)
• Julian Harrell – Environment (Indiana)
• Colin Harris – Environment (Colorado)*
• John G. Horan – Government Contracts (USA – Nationwide)
• Nicole Josko – Environment (New Jersey)
• H. Max Kelln – Environment (Indiana)
• Christopher Monahan – International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions (USA – Nationwide)
• Dana Pashkoff – Government Contracts (USA – Nationwide)
• Judith Praitis – Environment (California) 
• John Przypyszny – Higher Education (USA – Nationwide)
• William Randolph Rucker – International Trade: Customs (USA – Nationwide)
• James Sawyer – International Trade: Customs (USA – Nationwide)
• Mollie Sitkowski – International Trade: Customs (USA – Nationwide)
• Jonathan Tarnow – Higher Education (USA – Nationwide)

Health Care

• Jennifer Breuer – Health Care (Illinois) 
• Patrick Cross – Health Care (Indiana)*
• John J. D'Andrea – Health Care (Pennsylvania)
• Jonathan Keller – Health Care (New Jersey)
• Steve Lokensgard – Health Care (Minnesota)*
• Neil S. Olderman – Health Care (Illinois)
• Randy Peak – Health Care (Texas)
• Kenneth Vorrasi – Health Care (District of Columbia) 
• Jesse Witten – Health Care (District of Columbia)*

Insurance

• Sara Inman – Insurance (Texas)
• Sandra Jones – Insurance (Pennsylvania)
• Scott Kosnoff – Artificial Intelligence (USA – Nationwide)
• Timothy O’Driscoll – Insurance (Pennsylvania) 
• Brian Perryman – Insurance: Insurer (District of Columbia)
• Stephen A. Serfass – Insurance (Pennsylvania)
• Nolan Tully – Insurance (Pennsylvania)
• Dawn Williams – Insurance: Insurer (District of Columbia)

Intellectual Property

• Emily Bayton – Intellectual Property (Colorado)
• Jared Briant – Intellectual Property (Colorado)
• Lora Brzezynski – Intellectual Property: Litigation (District of Columbia); Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (USA – Nationwide)
• Robert Cannuscio – Intellectual Property (Pennsylvania)
• Trevor Carter – Intellectual Property (Indiana)*
• Jennifer Dean – Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (District of Columbia)
• Tore DeBella – Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (District of Columbia)
• Francis DiGiovanni – Intellectual Property (Delaware)
• Melissa Dillenbeck – Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (Illinois)
• Timothy Grimsrud – Intellectual Property (Minnesota)
• Victor Jonas – Intellectual Property (Minnesota)
• Ira M. Kalina – Technology & Outsourcing (Illinois)
• Andrew McCoy – Intellectual Property (Indiana)
• William S. Meyers – Intellectual Property (Indiana)
• Thatcher Rahmeier – Intellectual Property (Delaware)
• Kate Razavi – Intellectual Property (Minnesota)
• J.J. Saul – Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (Illinois)
• Timothy B. Scull – Intellectual Property (Colorado)
• Abe Jentry Shanehsaz – Intellectual Property (Indiana)
• Kirstin Stoll-DeBell – Intellectual Property (Colorado)*
• Reeya Thakrar – Technology & Outsourcing (Illinois)
• Kelly Young – Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (District of Columbia)

Investment Management

• Jeff Blumberg – Hedge Funds (USA – Nationwide)
• Joshua Deringer – Registered Funds (USA – Nationwide)
• Ilene Froom – Derivatives (USA - Nationwide)
• Tiffany Reeves – Investment Funds: Investor Representation (USA – Nationwide)
• Mark Weakley – Corporate/M&A (Colorado) 
• David Williams – Registered Funds (USA – Nationwide)

Labor and Employment

• Lynne Anne Anderson – Labor & Employment (New Jersey)*
• Thomas J. Barton – Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania)
• Stuart Buttrick – Labor & Employment (Indiana)
• Erika C. Collins – Labor & Employment (New York)
• Lawrence Del Rossi – Labor & Employment (New Jersey)
• Susan Elgin – Labor & Employment (Iowa)
• Mark J. Foley – Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania)
• Matthew A. Fontana – Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania)
• Ryan Funk – Labor & Employment (Indiana)
• Brian Garrison – Labor & Employment (Indiana)
• Charles F. Knapp – Labor & Employment (Minnesota)
• Sari Long – Immigration (Colorado)
• Alexa Miller – Labor & Employment (New Jersey)
• Erik Mosvick – Labor & Employment (Colorado)
• Cheryl D. Orr – Labor & Employment (California)
• Daniel Prokott – Labor & Employment (Minnesota)
  
• Samantha Rollins – Labor & Employment (Minnesota)
• Roger Tsai – Immigration (Colorado)
• Mary Will – Labor & Employment (Colorado)
• David J. Woolf – Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania)

Litigation

• Teresa Akkara – Litigation: Appellate (Colorado)
• Peter Baldwin – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (New York)
• Anna Behrmann – Antitrust (Indiana)
• E. Paul Cauley – Litigation: General Commercial (Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds); Product Liability: Automobile (USA – Nationwide)*
• Martin Chester – Litigation: General Commercial (Minnesota)
• Emily Chow – Antitrust (Minnesota)
• Michael Cockson – Litigation: General Commercial (Minnesota)
• Craig Coleman – Antitrust (Minnesota)
• Michael P. Daly – Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Carrie DeLange – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
• Sandra Dawn Grannum – Litigation: Securities (New Jersey)*
• Barry Gross – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)*
• Angela Kelver Hall – Litigation: Product Liability (Indiana)
• Joel Hammerman – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
• Alec Harris – Litigation: General Commercial (Colorado) 
• Craig Heeren – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (New York)
• Ryan Hurley – Antitrust (Indiana)*; Litigation: General Commercial (Indiana)
• Jeffrey Jacobson – Litigation: General Commercial (New Jersey)
• Andrew B. Joseph – Litigation: General Commercial (New Jersey)
• Jeffrey P. Justman – Litigation: Appellate (Minnesota)
• Randall E. Kahnke – Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (USA - Nationwide); Litigation: General Commercial (Minnesota)*
• Timothy Katsiff – Litigation: Securities (Pennsylvania) 
• Nicholas A. Klinefeldt – Litigation: General Commercial (Iowa)
• Jake Kramer – Litigation: General Commercial (District of Columbia)
• Julie Landy – Litigation: General Commercial (Minnesota)
• Lance Lange – Litigation: General Commercial (Iowa)
• Joanne Lewers – Antitrust (Pennsylvania) 
• Ross A. Lewin – Environment (New Jersey)*
• Jesse Linebaugh – Insurance (Iowa); Litigation: General Commercial (Iowa)
• Carrie Sarhangi Love – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)
• Erica MacDonald – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Minnesota)*
• Peter Magnuson – Litigation: General Commercial (Minnesota)
• Wayne Mason – Litigation: General Commercial (Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds); Litigation: Trial Lawyers (Texas)* 
• Carolyn McNiven – False Claims Act (USA – Nationwide); Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (California)
• Alice Morical – Litigation: General Commercial (Indiana)*
• Jessica Natali – False Claims Act (USA – Nationwide); Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)
• Kathy L. Osborn – Antitrust (Indiana)*; Litigation: General Commercial (Indiana)
• Brian J. Paul – Litigation: Appellate (Indiana)*
• Clay Pierce – Litigation: General Commercial (New York)
• Antonio Pozos – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)
• Daniel Pulliam – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Indiana)
• Paul Saint-Antoine – Antitrust (Pennsylvania)*
• Richard Scheff – False Claims Act (USA – Nationwide); Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)*
• John Ursu – Litigation: General Commercial (Minnesota)
• Henry Van Dyck – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (District of Columbia)
• Aaron D. Van Oort – Litigation: Appellate (Minnesota)*
• John Yi – Antitrust (Pennsylvania)
• Tyler Young – Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation (USA – Nationwide)

Product Liability and Mass Torts

• Sarah L. Brew – Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation (USA – Nationwide)*
• Jacob Bylund – Litigation: General Commercial (Iowa)
• Andrew Campbell – Litigation: Product Liability (Indiana)
• Christopher Casolaro – Litigation: General Commercial (Colorado)
• Jessica Cox – Litigation: Product Liability (Indiana)
• Rachael Dettmann Spiegel – Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation (USA – Nationwide)
• Amy Fiterman – Litigation: Product Liability (Minnesota)*
• John Mandler – Litigation: Product Liability (Minnesota)*
• Heather Carson Perkins – Franchising (USA – Nationwide); Litigation: General Commercial (Colorado)*
• Andrea Pierson – Litigation: Product Liability (Indiana)*; Product Liability & Mass Torts (USA – Nationwide)
• Patrick Reilly – Litigation: Product Liability (Indiana)
• Susan M. Sharko – Litigation: Product Liability (New Jersey)*; Product Liability & Mass Torts (USA – Nationwide)
• J. Joseph Tanner – Litigation: General Commercial (Indiana)

Real Estate

• Reuben Asia – Real Estate (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Peter Berrie – Real Estate (Minnesota)
• Andrew B. Buroker – Real Estate (Indiana)
• Gretchen Miller Busch – Real Estate (Colorado)
• Adrian E. Ciacci – Real Estate (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)
• Jerald M. Goodman – Real Estate (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds)*
• John Michalski – Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (New Jersey)
• Andy Norin – Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (New Jersey)
• Glenn S. Pantel – Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (New Jersey)*
• Michael E. Rothpletz Jr. – Real Estate (New Jersey)*
• Michael San Giacomo – Real Estate (New Jersey)
• Patrick A. Scheiderer – Real Estate (Indiana)
• Lica Tomizuka – Real Estate (Minnesota)*
• Allen Wheeler – Real Estate (Minnesota)
• Joseph Whitney – Real Estate (New Jersey)
• Michael C. Woodruff – Real Estate (New Jersey)
• Mark Wright – Real Estate (Indiana)

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