O’Melveny Practices, Lawyers Highly Ranked by The Legal 500 US 2025
June 13, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK—June 13, 2025—O’Melveny’s leading practices and lawyers have been recognized for their excellence by the 2025 edition of The Legal 500: United States, a guide to the US legal market.
This year’s guide ranked the firm across 43 practice areas, with four practices receiving Tier 1 rankings and 14 practices receiving Tier 2 rankings. O’Melveny was also recognized as a “Firm to Watch” for Energy Litigation: Electric Power, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and Real Estate.
The Legal 500 recognized eight O’Melveny partners in its “Hall of Fame,” which highlights lawyers who are “at the pinnacle of the profession” and who have “received constant praise from their clients for continued excellence.” This year’s “Hall of Fame” designees are partners David Almeling, Brian Boyle, Apalla U. Chopra, Richard B. Goetz, David Kelley, Luc Moritz, Daniel Petrocelli, and Tancred Schiavoni.
This year’s guide recognized 26 O’Melveny partners as “Leading Partners,” defined by The Legal 500 as “true market leaders.” In addition, five O’Melveny lawyers were identified as “Next Generation Partners” and two were lauded as “Leading Associates.”
The Legal 500 series provides independent commentary on leading law firms and lawyers in more than 100 countries. Rankings are based on feedback from 300,000 clients worldwide, submissions from law firms and interviews with leading private practice lawyers, and a team of researchers who have unrivaled experience in the legal market.
The following are O’Melveny’s Hall of Fame, Leading Partners, Next Generation Partners, and Leading Associates US lawyers and ranked practice areas for 2025.
Hall of Fame
David Almeling
Brian Boyle
Apalla Chopra
Richard Goetz
David Kelley
Luc Moritz
Daniel Petrocelli
Tancred Schiavoni
Leading Partners
Eric Amdursky
John Anaipakos
Steve Brody
Allen Burton
Junaid Chida
Lindsay Conner
M. Elizabeth Dubeck
Jeffrey Fisher
Jonathan Hacker
Molly Lens
Greta Nightingale
Lisa Pensabene
Daniel Petrocelli
Eric Richards
Alexander Roberts
Mark Robertson
Jonathan Rosenberg
Eric Rothenberg
John Rousakis
Denise Scofield
Amy Siegel
Ian Simmons
Darin Snyder
Sabrina Strong
Gary Svirsky
D. Sean Trainor
Next Generation Partners
Aparna Joshi
Hassen Sayeed
Daniel Suvor
Silvia Vannini
Meaghan VerGow
Leading Associates
Zoheb Noorani
Brian Quinn
Tier 1 Practices
ERISA Litigation
Media & Entertainment: Litigation
State Attorneys General
Trade Secrets (Litigation & Non-Contentious Matters)
Tier 2 Practices
Appellate: Court of Appeals
Appellate: Supreme Courts (State and Federal)
Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
Education
Environment: Transactional
General Commercial Disputes
Healthcare: Health Insurers
Insurance: Advice to Insurers
Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions): Defense
Media & Entertainment: Transactional
Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Consumer Products (Including Tobacco)
Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Municipal
Securities Litigation: Defense
Tier 3 Practices
Cartel
Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
Labor-Management Relations
Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission)
Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Toxic Tort
Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Automotive/Transport
Project Finance: Infrastructure and PPP
Sport
Transport: Aviation & Airtravel - Litigation & Regulation
Tier 4 Practices
Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Issuers
Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Managers
Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
Energy Regulation: Electric Power
Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas
Healthcare: Life Sciences
Merger Control
Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)
Project Finance: Energy and Power
Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate
US Taxes: Non-Contentious
Tier 5 Practices
Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders
Firms to Watch
Energy Litigation: Electric Power
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
Real Estate
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Contact:
Brandon Jacobsen
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
+1 213 430 8024
bjacobsen@omm.com
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