Twenty-Seven Partners Named Among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America

Lawdragon selected 27 Kirkland attorneys for its 2026 list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America”:

Jon Ballis – Private Equity
Erica Berthou – Private Funds
Mike Brock – Class Action Litigation
Reginald Brown – Litigation (esp. Crisis Management)
Andrew Calder – Corporate (esp. Energy)
Taj Clayton – Litigation
Christa Cottrell – Complex Commercial Litigation
Erin Nealy Cox – Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations 
Luke Dauchot – IP Litigation 
Jonathan Davis – M&A, Private Equity
Daniel Donovan – Litigation 
Mark Filip – Litigation, Government Enforcement
Maggie Flores – M&A, Private Equity
Asheesh Goel – Litigation (esp. Investigations & Regulatory Enforcement)
Sandra Goldstein – Litigation 
Mark Holscher – Litigation 
Melissa Hutson – Debt Finance 
Sarkis Jebejian – M&A, Private Equity
Andrew Kassof – Litigation 
Jacquelyn Kasulis – Litigation (esp. White Collar)
Edward Lee – Corporate (esp. M&A)
Peter Martelli – Corporate (esp. M&A, Private Equity)
Shaun Mathew – Shareholder Activism & Takeover Defense 
Allison Murphy – Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations
Anna Rotman – Energy Litigation
Diana Torres – IP Litigation
Helen Witt – Litigation