Quinn Emanuel Recognized as a Leading Law Firm in Legal 500's USA 2026 Guide

Quinn Emanuel has been recognized as a leading law firm in the Legal 500 USA 2026 Guide, securing rankings across 27 practice areas and earning 154 individual recognitions for our attorneys. The insights and trust of our clients have been pivotal in illuminating the breadth and caliber of our legal expertise, underscoring our unwavering dedication to delivering winning results.

Among this year's submissions, clients offered the following reflections on working with our teams:

• “The team is extremely strategic and outcome-oriented in its advice, bearing in mind the end goals of the client. The team has deep knowledge and insight into the market and is collaborative in its approach to cross-border litigation strategies.”
• “Distinguished by a genuinely trial-focused, partner-driven approach. The team is agile, commercially minded, and deeply experienced in complex disputes, offering creative strategies, efficient use of technology, and flexible fee arrangements that set it apart from more traditional firms.”
• “Quinn continues to be the most feared business litigation firm in the United States. We have used them for the majority of our litigation needs for over a decade and will continue to do so.”
• “The Quinn Emanuel team is top-notch. They are extremely knowledgeable securities litigators; they do not just try to take a playbook and run it every time. They are creative about ways to fight cases, and it resulted in a very favorable dismissal for us.”  
• “Very intelligent, excellent team dynamic, nothing falls through the cracks.”  

Find out more about our award-winning practices here: Practice Areas | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Explore QE’s rankings below:

Firm Rankings

• Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
• Dispute Resolution: Appellate: courts of appeals
• Dispute Resolution: Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - Advice to corporates
• Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - Advice to individuals
• Dispute Resolution: Financial services litigation
• Dispute Resolution: General commercial disputes - premium ($500m+)
• Dispute Resolution: International arbitration
• Dispute Resolution: International litigation
• Dispute Resolution: M&A litigation: defense
• Dispute Resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
• Dispute Resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - plaintiff
• Dispute Resolution: Securities litigation: defense
• Dispute Resolution: Securities litigation: plaintiff
• Energy: Energy litigation: oil & gas - premium ($500m+)
• Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Industry Focus: Cannabis
• Insurance: Advice to insurers
• Intellectual Property: Copyright
• Intellectual Property: Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Intellectual Property: Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
• Intellectual Property: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
• Intellectual Property: Trademarks: litigation
• M&A/corporate and commercial: Delaware Counsel
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and entertainment: litigation

Individual Rankings

• Alex Lasher - Intellectual Property: Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
• Alex Spiro - Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - Advice to individuals
• Benjamin Finestone - Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Christopher Michel - Dispute Resolution: Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Daniel Brockett - Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
• Daniel Brockett - Dispute Resolution: Financial services litigation
• Daniel Brockett - Dispute Resolution: Securities litigation: plaintiff
• Daniel Koffmann - Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - Advice to corporates
• David Adler - Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• David Orta - Dispute Resolution: International arbitration
• Dawn Yamane Hewett - Dispute Resolution: International arbitration
• Dennis Hranitzky - Dispute Resolution: International litigation
• Derek Shaffer - Dispute Resolution: Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Jeremy Andersen - Dispute Resolution: Securities litigation: plaintiff
• John Bash - Dispute Resolution: Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• John Quinn - Dispute Resolution: General commercial disputes - premium ($500m+)
• John Quinn - Dispute Resolution: Leading trial lawyers
• Karl Stern - Energy: Energy litigation: oil & gas - premium ($500m+)
• Kevin Chu - Intellectual Property: Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
• Michael Barlow - Delaware counsel
• Michael Carlinsky - Dispute Resolution: General commercial disputes - premium ($500m+)
• Michael Carlinsky - Dispute Resolution: Leading trial lawyers
• Moon Hee Lee - Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and entertainment: litigation
• Richard Godfrey - Dispute Resolution: General commercial disputes - premium ($500m+)
• Robert Schwartz - Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and entertainment: litigation
• Sara Clark - Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - Advice to individuals
• Sean Pak - Intellectual Property: Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Steig Olson - Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
• Susheel Kirpalani - Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Victoria Maroulis - Intellectual Property: Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Will Sears - Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
• William A. Burck - Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - Advice to individuals