McGuireWoods had more than 135 attorneys from its U.S. offices selected for inclusion on Best Lawyers’ 2025 “Ones to Watch” list recognizing the nation’s most promising counsel for professional excellence in private practice. The honor is reserved for lawyers in private practice fewer than 10 years. Best Lawyers selects honorees based on surveys in which attorneys confidentially evaluate their peers.
The following McGuireWoods lawyers were named to the “Ones to Watch” list.
ATLANTA –M. Laughlin Allen, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Securities; William B. Bradbury, Banking and Finance Law; Natalina N. DePina, Commercial Litigation; Nicholas A. DuPuis, Banking and Finance Law; Collier McLeod Field, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law; Nicholas G. Hill, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law; Isaac Yilma, Public Finance Law
AUSTIN – Madison K.B. Wyche, Real Estate Law
BALTIMORE – Anna C. Horevay, Public Finance Law; Rebecca W. Lineberry, Labor and Employment Law – Management; Emily M. Patterson, Commercial Litigation
CHARLOTTE – Katharine Y. Barnes, Labor and Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment; Luis F. Benavides, Banking and Finance Law; Thomas E. Booms, Banking and Finance Law; Diana Castro, Administrative / Regulatory Law, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Health Care Law; Adam S. Coto, Banking and Finance Law; Alec Covington, Commercial Litigation; Matthew L.C. Cox, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; J. Porter Durham III, Corporate Law, Securities / Capital Markets Law; Alexia Faraguna, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Jasmine K. Gardner, Commercial Litigation; C. Caroline Grier Kraich, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Robert Grimmett-Norris, Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers; Heryka R. Knoespel, Litigation – Banking and Finance; Richard V. Lockridge, Real Estate Law; Samuel O. Lumpkin, Environmental Law; Mary C. Markle, Real Estate Law; Kayla McCann Marty, Health Care Law; T. Richmond McPherson III, Litigation – Banking and Finance; Eric W. Mills, Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Andrew Parrish, Banking and Finance Law; Ethridge B. Ricks, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Allison P. Tanner, Corporate Law, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Andrew J. Terjesen, Securities / Capital Markets Law; Elizabeth M. Thomas, Commercial Litigation; Kelly Warlich, Litigation – Banking and Finance
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Mitchell Diles, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Hunter M. Glenn, Trusts and Estates; Richard P. Massony, Jr., Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities / Capital Markets Law
CHICAGO – Alyssa C. Campbell, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Erin E. Dine, Health Care Law; Timothy J. Fry, Administrative / Regulatory Law, Health Care Law; Jason Griffith, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Katharine P. Lennox, Labor and Employment Law – Management; Amanda K. Roenius, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Health Care Law; Alexandra Shipley, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Jason A. Richardson, Administrative / Regulatory Law
DALLAS – Paul M. Chappell, Litigation – Labor and Employment; Matthew W. Cornelia, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent; Laura Grace Mezher, Tax Law; Brian Robertson, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Cassandra A. Shoemaker, Litigation – Bankruptcy
HOUSTON – Ryan Frankel, Commercial Litigation; Sarah Holub, Commercial Litigation; Miles Indest, Commercial Litigation, Oil and Gas Law; Alexis Reynolds, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Health Care Law; Wendy P. Wright, Health Care Law
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Kristen P. Courtney, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law; E. Paul Cuffe, Commercial Litigation, Government Relations Practice, Insurance Law, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Municipal Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Cameron G. Kynes, Litigation – Labor and Employment; Kimberly T. Mydock, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance; Emily Y. Rottmann, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Real Estate
LOS ANGELES – Kathleen M. Baskin, Real Estate Law; Victoria T. Gregson, Real Estate Law; Anthony Q. Le, Banking and Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law; Piper A. Waldron, Commercial Litigation
NEW YORK – Allyson Maur, Health Care Law; Tatiana Z. Pawlowski, Real Estate Law; Scott D. Rader, Land Use and Zoning Law; Allison W. Rosenzweig, Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Mikaela Whitman, Insurance Law
NORFOLK, Va. – Megan Italiano, Health Care Law
PITTSBURGH – Jessica Barrera, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law; Frank J. Guadagnino, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Benjamin F. Hantz, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Kelsey R. Hitchcock, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Branden P. Moore, Commercial Litigation; Molleigh M. Thomas, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Matthew VanDyke, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Natalie L. Zagari, Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
RALEIGH, N.C. – Amanda M. Colley, Banking and Finance Law; Cori Hockman, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent; Aline M. McCullough, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
RICHMOND – Chris Alderman, Construction Law, Energy Law, Project Finance Law; Kathryn M. Barber, Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Securities; Elissa N. Baur, Antitrust Law, Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Emily G. Blair, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Project Finance Law; Allison Bohan, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Steven J. Bonniwell, Trusts and Estates; Caroline Schmidt Burton, Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Matthew B. Chmiel, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Laura J. Cooley, Litigation – Labor and Employment; Alexandria E. Cuff, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; David F. Dabbs, Litigation – Labor and Employment; Amanda L. DeFord, Litigation – Intellectual Property; Arrion N. Dennis, Banking and Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Gregory J. DuBoff, Litigation – Securities; Claire Hagen Eller, Litigation – Intellectual Property; Andrew F. Gann, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Product Liability – Defendants; Nicholas J. Giles, Antitrust Law, Litigation – Antitrust; Travis C. Gunn, Appellate Practice; Etahjayne J. Harris, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Anne Hampton Haynes, Administrative / Regulatory Law; Garrett H. Hooe, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Securities; Daniel E. Howell, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Latasha M. James, Securities / Capital Markets Law; Christopher M. Keegan, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Samuel F. Kettering, Construction Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Drew Crocker LaFountaine, Real Estate Law; Stephanie A. Martinez, Intellectual Property Law; Emilie J. McNally, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Laura A. Meis, Trusts and Estates; Timothy D. Patterson, Administrative / Regulatory Law, Energy Law; Elizabeth P. Redpath, Labor and Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment; Alec V. Sauble, Tax Law; Anne Curtis Saunders, Public Finance Law; Heidi E. Siegmund, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Labor and Employment; John L. Spilman Jr., Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Lauren E. Sutphin, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law; Frank Talbott V, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Jonathan T. Tan, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Evan X. Tucker, Commercial Litigation; Jennifer Dvorak Valaika, Administrative / Regulatory Law; Davis M. Walsh, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Brooke Weedon, Commercial Litigation; Robert B. Wynne, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
SAN FRANCISCO – Krunal K. Patel, Banking and Finance Law; Jenny Yi, Commercial Litigation
TYSONS, Va. – Heather Britton Chaney, Commercial Litigation; Brooks H. Spears, Commercial Litigation; John E. Thomas Jr., Litigation – Labor and Employment; Matthew J. Weinstein, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. – R. Andrew Austria, Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Katlyn A. Davis Farrell, Energy Law; Jonathan Helwink, Commercial Litigation; A. Wolfgang McGavran, Litigation – Environmental, Oil and Gas Law; Carrie Mobley, Energy Law; Wrede Smith, Antitrust Law.