Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that our practice groups and attorneys have been highly ranked and recommended in The Legal 500 United States 2025. Researchers at The Legal 500 conduct annual, in-depth market research and gather information from individual law firms as well as feedback from peers and clients to form an objective analysis and prepare comprehensive rankings and editorial commentary of the U.S. legal market.
2025 Firm Rankings:
Top-Tier Firm
- Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
- Transport: Shipping – Litigation and Regulation
Recommended Firm
- Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
- Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders
- Government: Government Contracts
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
- Real Estate
- Tax: US Taxes: Contentious
- Transport: Shipping Finance
Firm to Watch
- Finance: Commercial Lending
- International Trade and National Security: Customs, Export Controls, and Economic Sanctions
- International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
2025 Top-Tier Rankings:
Hall of Fame
- John Heintz (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- James Murray (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Joanne Osendarp (International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy)
- Anthony Salgado (Transport: Shipping Finance)
- Jeanne Grasso (Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation)
- John Kimball (Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation)
Leading Partners
- Mark Haskell (Energy: Energy Regulation: Oil and Gas)
- Scott Arnold (Government: Government Contracts)
- Justin Chiarodo (Government: Government Contracts)
- Mary Craig Calkins (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Rikke Dierssen-Morice (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- John Gibbons (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Linda Kornfeld (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Natasha Romagnoli (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Jared Zola (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Craig Fields (Tax: US Taxes: Contentious)
- William Bennett III (Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation)
- Jonathan Waldron (Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation)
Next Generation Partners
- Dominique Casimir (Government: Government Contracts)
- Kyle Brinkman (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Omid Safa (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
- Nicole Johnson (Tax: US Taxes: Contentious)
- Kierstan Carlson (Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation)
- Dana Merkel (Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation)
- Luke Reid (Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation)
Leading Associates
- Zachary Cain (Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation)
- Natalie Radabaugh (Transport: Shipping Finance)
2025 Recommended Attorneys, by Practice:
Commercial Disputes
- William Dorsey
Corporate and M&A
- Kathleen Cunningham
- Peter Schnur
- Josef Volman
Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense
- Jerry Bernstein
- Bradley Henry
- William Lawler
Energy Regulation: Oil and Gas
- Mark Haskell
- Lamiya Rahman
- Brett Snyder
Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders
- Kevin Baum
- Harris Diamond
- Lawrence Flick
- Heather Sonnenberg
Government Contracts
- Scott Arnold
- Robyn Burrows
- Dominique Casimir
- Justin Chiarodo
- Stephanie Harden
- Elizabeth Jochum
- Luke Meier
- Michael Montalbano
Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
- Kyle Brinkman
- Mary Craig Calkins
- Lisa Campisi
- Rikke Dierssen-Morice
- John Gibbons
- John Heintz
- Robert Jacobs
- Linda Kornfeld
- Jim Murray
- Natasha Romagnoli
- Omid Safa
- Jeffrey Schulman
- Barron Weinstein
- Jared Zola
International Trade and National Security: Customs, Export Controls, and Economic Sanctions
- Anthony Rapa
International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
- Joanne Osendarp
Tax: US Taxes: Contentious
- Craig Fields
- Eugene Gibilaro
- Nicole Johnson
- Melanie Lee
- Mitchell Newmark
Transport: Shipping: Finance
- Natalie Radabaugh
- Anthony Salgado
- Douglas Shoemaker
Transport: Shipping: Litigation and Regulation
- Thomas Belknap
- Michael Bell
- William Bennett
- Zachary Cain
- Kierstan Carlson
- Vanessa DiDomenico
- Jeanne Grasso
- Noe Hamra
- Emma Jones
- John Kimball
- Keith Letourneau
- Gregory Linsin
- Neil McMillan
- Dana Merkel
- Luke Reid
- Douglas Shoemaker
- Richard Singleton
- Matthew Thomas
- Jonathan Waldron
