The 2012 Guide to World-Class Employment Lawyers

Lawdragon is proud to present The Guide to World-Class Employment Lawyers, the result of hundreds of law firm submissions and editorial research conducted over the past year. This is the fifth annual guide to leading employment lawyers we have produced in partnership with Human Resource Executive (HRE) magazine.

In addition to the 100 Most Powerful Employment Lawyers below, you can also view the Top 20 in Employee Benefits; the Top 20 in Traditional Labor & Employment Law; the Top 20 in Immigration; as well as 40 Up and Comers in the field.

You can also read HRE's coverage accompanying the lists.

Name	Organization	Location
Nancy L. Abell	Paul Hastings	Los Angeles
Rory Judd Albert	Proskauer	New York
Rosemary Alito	K&L Gates	Newark, N.J.
Fred W. Alvarez	Wilson Sonsini	Palo Alto, Calif.
R. Lawrence Ashe Jr.	Ashe Rafuse	Atlanta
Kim J. Askew	K&L Gates	Dallas
Michael L.Banks	Morgan Lewis	Philadelphia
Paula A. Barran	Barran Liebman	Portland, Ore.
Ned H. Bassen	Hughes Hubbard	New York
Joseph Baumgarten	Proskauer	New York
Scott C. Beightol	Michael Best	Milwaukee
Charles S. Birenbaum	Winston & Strawn	San Francisco
Elise M. Bloom	Proskauer	New York
Barbara B. Brown	Paul Hastings	Washington
Paul W. Cane Jr.	Paul Hastings	San Francisco
Charles S. Caulkins	Fisher & Phillips	Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Joseph T. Clees	Ogletree Deakins	Phoenix
William L. Cole	Mitchell Silberberg	Los Angeles
John J. Coleman III	Burr & Forman	Birmingham, Ala.
Harriet E. Cooperman	Saul Ewing	Baltimore
Joseph J. Costello	Morgan Lewis	Philadelphia
Lisa J. Damon	Seyfarth Shaw	Boston
Barbara Jean D’Aquila	Fulbright	Minneapolis
Francis X. Dee	McElroy Deutsch	Morristown, N.J.
Mike Delikat	Orrick	New York
Mark S. Dichter	Morgan Lewis	Philadelphia
Lawrence C. DiNardo	Jones Day	Chicago
Dennis P. Duffy	Baker Botts	Houston
Zachary D. Fasman	Paul Hastings	New York
Baruch A. Fellner	Gibson Dunn	Washington
Mark J. Foley	Cozen O’Connor	Philadelphia
Gary D. Friedman	Weil	New York
Willis J. Goldsmith	Jones Day	New York
Michael J. Gray	Jones Day	Chicago
Brian S. Greig	Fulbright	Austin, Texas
Paul Grossman	Paul Hastings	Los Angeles
Elizabeth P. Hardy	Kienbaum Opperwall	Birmingham, Mich.
C. Lash Harrison	Ford & Harrison	Atlanta
Barry A. Hartstein	Littler	Chicago
Gerald T. Hathaway	Mitchell Silberberg	New York
Lynne C. Hermle	Orrick	Menlo Park, Calif.
Patrick H. Hicks	Littler	Las Vegas
Stephen J. Hirschfeld	Curiale Hirschfeld	San Francisco
Jerry M. Hunter	Bryan Cave	St. Louis
Maurice G. Jenkins	Jackson Lewis	Detroit
W. Carl Jordan	Vinson & Elkins	Houston
Gregory J. Kamer	Kamer Zucker	Las Vegas
Joel H. Kaplan	Seyfarth Shaw	Chicago
Ellen C. Kearns	Constangy	Boston
Thomas G. Kienbaum	Kienbaum Opperwall	Birmingham, Mich.
William Kilberg	Gibson Dunn	Washington
Jeffrey S. Klein	Weil	New York
Kevin B. Leblang	Kramer Levin	New York
Adam Levin	Mitchell Silberberg	Los Angeles
John B. Lewis	Baker Hostetler	Cleveland
Donald R. Livingston	Akin Gump	Washington
Alison B. Marshall	Jones Day	Washington
William C. Martucci	Shook Hardy	Kansas City, Mo.
Garry G. Mathiason	Littler	San Francisco
Matthew T. Miklave	Epstein Becker	New York
Armin J. Moeller Jr.	Balch & Bingham	Jackson, Miss.
Demitrios M. Moschos	Mirick O’Connell	Worchester, Mass.
Marko J. Mrkonich	Littler	Minneapolis
Michael Patrick O’Brien	Jones Waldo	Salt Lake City
Camille A. Olson	Seyfarth Shaw	Chicago
Anthony J. Oncidi	Proskauer	Los Angeles
William N. Ozier	Bass Berry	Nashville, Tenn.
Bettina B. Plevan	Proskauer	New York
Stephen A. Ploscowe	Fox Rothschild	Roseland, N.J.
Roger K. Quillen	Fisher & Phillips	Atlanta
James R. Redeker	Duane Morris	Philadelphia
Colleen M. Regan	Seyfarth Shaw	Los Angeles
D. Michael Reilly	Lane Powell	Seattle
Michael Reiss	Davis Wright	Seattle
Theodore O. Rogers Jr.	Sullivan & Cromwell	New York
Lawrence Rosenfeld	Greenberg Traurig	Phoenix
Paul Salvatore	Proskauer	New York
Terry E. Sanchez	Munger Tolles	Los Angeles
Deborah C. Saxe	Jones Day	Los Angeles
Eugene Scalia	Gibson Dunn	Washington
Jonathan A. Segal	Duane Morris	Philadelphia
Patrick W. Shea	Paul Hastings	New York
Jeremy P. Sherman	Seyfarth Shaw	Chicago
Gary R. Siniscalco	Orrick	San Francisco
Gregory E. Smith	Lionel Sawyer	Las Vegas
Grace E. Speights	Morgan Lewis	Washington
George A. Stohner	Morgan Lewis	Los Angeles
Steven W. Suflas	Ballard Spahr	Cherry Hill, N.J.
Joseph E. Tilson	Meckler Bulger	Chicago
Patrick L. Vaccaro	Jackson Lewis	White Plains, N.Y.
Framroze Virjee	O’Melveny	Los Angeles
Jay W. Waks	Kaye Scholer	New York
Geoff Weirich	Paul Hastings	Atlanta
Allan H. Weitzman	Proskauer	Boca Raton, Fla.
A. Martin Wickliff Jr.	Cozen O’Connor	Houston
Kirby C. Wilcox	Paul Hastings	San Francisco
Robert M. Wolff	Littler	Cleveland
T. J. (Jeff) Wray	Fulbright	Houston
John F. Wymer III	Paul Hastings	Atlanta
Peter Wolfson Zinober	Greenberg Traurig	Tampa, Fla.