America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008: Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

Chambers & Partners has compiled its independent and objective list of America's Leading Lawyers for Business based on comments gathered from thousands of interviews with clients and lawyers from Maine to Hawaii. This guide — which is designed to reflect market opinion — contains a view of the firms and attorneys who are considered leaders in their field.

In Chambers' 2008 review of national legal talent in the area of "Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations," our Firm and our lawyers are listed among the best in the country.

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California: Other Notable Practitioners

At Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Mark Holscher maintains a reputation as a "strategic thinker and a first-rate trial lawyer." This "fierce litigator" has worked on several headline cases; for example, he was one of the trial lawyers representing Jeff Skilling, the former CEO of Enron, in his criminal prosecution. Recently he has been representing BP in matters involving criminal environmental issues.

Reprinted with permission from Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008 — www.chambersandpartners.com.