ALM is pleased to announce the finalists for the National Law Journal's 2023 Elite Trial Lawyers Awards. Out of hundreds of entries, attorneys from plaintiffs law firms across the United States have made it to the competition's final round with the winners in 25 award categories being announced at the ETL award ceremony in New York City on July 13.  We will be announcing winners in each category at the dinner.

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The awards recognize law firms' outstanding plaintiffs work in a high-stakes bench or jury trial or in a major settlement. The winners must have scored a significant win during the contest period and must also be able to show an impressive track record of wins over the last three to five years. Firms must have devoted at least 50% of their litigation resources to plaintiffs work and shown innovative approaches to case resolution. For the first time this year, we will also recognize the 2023 Plaintiffs Firm of the Year.

Here are the Elite Trial Lawyers for 2023 :

Antitrust Finalists:

  • DiCello Levitt
  • Berman Tabacco
  • Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro
  • Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
  • Girard Sharp
  • Podhurst Orseck
  • Robins Kaplan

Business Torts Finalists:

  • BraunHagey & Borden
  • Morgan & Morgan
  • Reid Collins & Tsai
  • Walden Macht & Haran

Catastrophic Injury Finalists:

  • Lyons & Simmons
  • Morgan & Morgan
  • Motley Rice

Civil Rights Finalists:

  • Aldous \ Walker
  • Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
  • DiCello Levitt
  • Sanford Heisler Sharp

Class Action Finalists:

  • Baird Mandalas Brockstedt Frederico & Cardea
  • DiCello Levitt
  • Edelson
  • Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
  • Girard Sharp
  • Pomerantz
  • Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
  • Motley Rice
  • Joseph Saveri Law Firm

Consumer Protection Finalists:

  • FeganScott
  • Girard Sharp
  • DiCello Levitt
  • Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
  • Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
  • Labaton Sucharow
  • Tycko & Zavareei
  • Motley Rice

Discrimination Finalists:

  • Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
  • McNicholas & McNicholas

Diversity Initiative Award Finalists:

  • Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
  • Labaton Sucharow
  • Sauder Schelkopf

Elite Women of the Plaintiffs Bar Winners:

  • Kristina Infante – Podhurst Orseck
  • Alexis Ronickher – Katz Banks Kumin
  • Lexie White – Susman Godfrey
  • Maya Saxena – Saxena White
  • Lesley Weaver – Bleichmar Fonti & Auld
  • Kalpana Srinivasan – Susman Godfrey
  • Jayne Conroy – Simmons Hanly Conroy
  • Lexi Hazam – Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Berstein
  • Katrina Carroll – Lynch Carpenter
  • Dena Sharp – Girard Sharp
  • Michelle Simpson Tuegel – Simpson Tuegel Law Firm
  • Jennifer Truelove – McKool Smith
  • Aelish Marie Baig – Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
  • Diandra "Fu" Debrosse Zimmermann – DiCello Levitt
  • Karen Lerner – Kirby McInerney
  • Charla Aldous – Aldous Walker

Employment Rights Finalists:

  • deRubertis Law Firm
  • Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
  • Ron Zambrano
  • Morgan & Morgan

Environmental Protection Finalists:

  • DiCello Levitt
  • Motley Rice

Governmental Representation Finalists:

  • Morgan & Morgan
  • Motley Rice

Insurance Finalists:

  • Susman Godfrey
  • Zuckerman Spaeder
  • Daly & Black

Lifetime Achievement Award Winners:

  • Debra Katz – Katz Banks Kumin
  • Craig Wildfang – Robins Kaplan
  • Joseph Sellers – Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll

Mass Torts Finalists:

  • Edelson
  • Motley Rice
  • Seeger Weiss
  • The Collins Law Firm

Medical Malpractice Finalists:

  • Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman
  • Morgan & Morgan

Pharmaceutical Litigation Finalists:

  • Girard Sharp
  • Robins Kaplan
  • Simmons Hanly Conroy
  • Walden Macht & Haran

Plaintiffs Firm of the Year Finalists:

  • Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
  • DiCello Levitt
  • Labaton Sucharow
  • Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
  • Morgan & Morgan
  • Motley Rice
  • Seeger Weiss

Privacy / Data Breach Finalists:

  • Lynch Carpenter
  • Girard Sharp
  • DiCello Levitt
  • Edelson
  • Morgan & Morgan

Products Liability Finalists:

  • Beasley Allen
  • Girard Sharp
  • Seeger Weiss
  • DiCello Levitt
  • Motley Rice
  • Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein

Rising Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar Winners:

  • J. Austin Moore – Stueve Siegel Hanson
  • Justin L. Drazin – Drazin & Warshaw
  • Joseph B. Kenney – Sauder Schelkopf
  • Todd Logan – Edelson
  • Brandt Silver-Korn – Edelson
  • Eli Wade-Scott – Edelson
  • Keith Y. Cohan – Reid Collins & Tsai
  • Emily Herbick – Clifford Law Offices
  • Brent Ceryes – Baird, Mandalas, Brockstedt, Federico & Cardea
  • Dianne Pitre – Saxena White
  • Thomas Curry – Saxena White
  • Daniel R. Sutter – Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
  • Alison Deich – Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
  • John Crain – Wigdor
  • Joanna Fox – Fox Law
  • Caleb Seeley – Seeger Weiss
  • Emily Penkowski – Edelson
  • Brandon Vaughn – Robins Kaplan
  • J. Alexander Hood II – Pomerantz
  • Jake Bissell-Linsk – Labaton Sucharow
  • Melissa H. Nafash – Labaton Sucharow
  • Yonah Jaffe – Reid Collins & Tsai
  • Ryan Caughey – Susman Godfrey
  • Krisina Zuniga – Susman Godfrey
  • Michael Levin-Gesundheit – Lieff Cabraser
  • Ryan M. Goldstein – Reid Collins
  • Annie Kouba – Motley Rice
  • Krysta Pachman – Susman Godfrey
  • Daniel P. Watkins – Clare Locke
  • Jaime Cardenas-Navia – Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg
  • William Fedullo – Berger Montague

Securities Litigation/Shareholder Rights Finalists:

  • MoloLamken
  • Saxena White
  • Bleichmar Fonti & Auld
  • Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
  • Labaton Sucharow
  • Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
  • Motley Rice
  • Pomerantz
  • Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein

Technology Finalists:

  • Susman Godfrey
  • Motley Rice

Trial Strategy Innovation Finalists:

  • Boies Schiller Flexner
  • DiCello Levitt
  • Motley Rice

The Keith Givens Visionary Award Winner

  • Jennifer Selendy - Selendy Gay Elsberg