Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Chambers USA has once again recognized our commitment to providing client service excellence by ranking our attorneys and practice groups. The 2025 edition of Chambers USA includes 116 Blank Rome attorney rankings and 35 practice area rankings across a wide range of categories.
The rankings were assessed according to technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by clients.
NATIONAL PRACTICE RANKINGS
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded
- Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
- Gaming & Licensing
- Government Contracts: The Elite
- Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Policyholder - #1 ranking
- International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy
- Offshore Energy
- Registered Funds
- Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance
- Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (New York) - #1 ranking
- Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York) - #1 ranking
- Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory - #1 ranking
REGIONAL PRACTICE RANKINGS
California:
Delaware:
District of Columbia:
- Insurance: Policyholder - #1 ranking
Illinois:
New Jersey:
New York:
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded
- Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Policyholder - #1 ranking
- Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations: Highly Regarded - #1 ranking
- Tax: State & Local - #1 ranking
Pennsylvania:
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Labor & Employment
- Real Estate: Finance
- Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use - #1 ranking
- Tax
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds:
- Banking & Finance - #1 ranking
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring - #1 ranking
- Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
- Litigation: General Commercial - #1 ranking
- Real Estate
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh & Surrounds:
Texas:
INDIVIDUAL ATTORNEY RANKINGS, BY PRACTICE
Banking & Finance:
- Kevin Baum
- Anthony R. Callobre
- Lawrence Flick II
- Michael C. Graziano
- Bruce Lesser
- Cassandra Mott
- Mark I. Rabinowitz
- Heather Sonnenberg
- Shlomo Troodler
Bankruptcy/Restructuring:
- Regina Stango Kelbon
- Josef Mintz
- Kenneth Ottaviano
- Michael B. Schaedle
- Joel Charles Shapiro
- Stanley Tarr
- Joseph Welch
Cannabis Law: Eastern United States:
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity:
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation:
Energy & Natural Resources:
Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation):
Environment:
Gaming & Licensing:
Government Contracts:
Government Contracts: Bid Protests:
Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory:
Insurance: Dispute Resolution:
Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Policyholder:
- Mary Craig Calkins
- Lisa Campisi
- John Heintz
- Linda D. Kornfeld
- Helen Michael
- Robyn Michaelson
- James R. Murray
- Natasha Romagnoli
- Jeffrey Schulman
- Jared Zola
Insurance: Policyholder:
- Kyle Brinkman
- Mary Craig Calkins
- John Gibbons
- John Heintz
- Robert P. Jacobs
- Linda D. Kornfeld
- Helen Michael
- James R. Murray
- Omid Safa
- David Thomas
Intellectual Property:
International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy:
Labor & Employment:
Leisure & Hospitality:
Litigation: General Commercial:
- Roy Arnold
- Jayme L. Butcher
- Frank A. Dante
- Rikke Dierssen-Morice
- Andrew Fletcher
- Stephen Orlofsky
- Grant S. Palmer
- Daniel E. Rhynhart
- Shannon McClure Roberts
- James T. Smith
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations:
Offshore Energy:
Real Estate:
Real Estate: Corporate:
Real Estate: Finance:
Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use:
Registered Funds:
Tax:
Tax: State & Local:
Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance:
Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (New York):
Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Litigation (outside New York):
Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory:
About Chambers USA
Chambers & Partners, the UK-based publishers of Chambers USA, conducts research through in-depth interviews with attorneys and clients and then assesses those results via a team of more than 140 full-time researchers and editors.
Individual lawyers are ranked (in their practice-area(s)) on the basis of their legal knowledge and experience, their ability, their effectiveness, and their client service. A law firm ranking relates to a department of the firm, not to the firm as a whole. Where a firm has several departments specializing in different areas of law, Chambers may rank some departments and not others. Law firm departments are ranked on the qualities of their lawyers as above. In addition, Chambers considers the effectiveness and capability of the department as a whole—its strength and depth. These factors and considerations are judged: (a) by interviews with those active in the market—mainly clients (who can be law firms instructing other law firms) and other lawyers with whom they work; and (b) by assessing recent work done. Greater weight is given to the views of the clients, and any biased viewpoints tend to cancel each other out. All interviews are conducted purely for research purposes and are entirely confidential and unattributed. The methodology for the research into the strengths and reputations of U.S. attorneys has been approved by the British Market Research Bureau.
The rankings and editorial comments concerning the attorneys are independent and objective. Inclusion in the guide is based solely on the research team’s findings. Chambers is widely viewed among the most highly respected publications in the world with regards to rating lawyers, in part because inclusion cannot be purchased. For more information, visit chambersandpartners.com.