The Legal 500 recommended 19 Husch Blackwell practice areas in the United States 2025 guide released today. For the fifth straight year, the firm’s Higher Education team earned the “Top Tier Firm” designation.
The firm earned rankings for the first time in the areas of Construction; Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design; and Aviation and air travel: finance. Husch Blackwell is also noted as a firm to watch for Cyber law; Labor and employment: Workplace and employment counseling; and Trade remedies and trade policy.
In addition, partners Marshall Custer (Cannabis), Beau Jackson (Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission), Anna Kimbrell (Energy: Renewable/alternative power), Steve Levine (Cannabis), and Lisa Parker (Education) were recognized as “Leading partners.” Megan Beebe and Alyssa Samuel were recognized as “Leading associates” for Cannabis.
The firm and its attorneys are recognized in:
Cannabis
- Leading partners
- Marshall Custer
- Steve Levine
- Leading associates
- Alyssa Samuel
- Megan Beebe
- Recommended
- Hilary Bricken
- Lindy Martinez
- Brent Salmons
- Yuefan Wang
- Jeffrey Whitney
E-discovery
- Recommended
- Jennifer Cavner
- Taylor Concannon Hausmann
- Tessa Jacob
- Steve Neeley
- Kip Randall
Education – Top Tier Firm
- Leading partners
- Recommended
- Hayley Hanson
- Julie Miceli
- Jason Montgomery
- Sean Tassi
- Derek Teeter
Energy: Energy regulation: electric power
- Recommended
- Richard Bonnifield
- Carrie Collier-Brown
- Brian Potts
- Chris Reeder
- Linda Walsh
Energy: Renewable/alternative power
- Leading partners
- Recommended
- Sara Bergan
- David Gardels
- Ben Kass
- Jai Khanna
- Victoria Sitz
Financial services regulation: Consumer finance
- Recommended
- Christopher Friedman
- Marci Kawski
- Susan Seaman
Government contracts
- Recommended
- Cormac Connor
- John Myer
- Steve Neeley
- Hal Perloff
- Eric Singley
- Michael Schrier
- Brian Waagner
Healthcare: Service providers
- Recommended
- Peggy Barlett
- Bob Blaisdell
- Curt Chase
- Alison Hollender
- Jonathan Porter
- Rebecca Rodman
- Tom Shorter
Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Recommended
- Kirsten Byrd
- Ashley DeVerna
- Jason Fathallah
- Dieter Juedes
- David Sobelman
Intellectual property - Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Leading partners
- Recommended
- Kara Fussner
- Jennifer Hoekel
International trade and national security: Trade remedies and trade policy – Firm to Watch
Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Recommended
- David Eckhardt
- Molly Hobbs
- Alan Kandel
- Craig Kovarik
Labor and employment: Workplace and employment counseling – Firm to Watch
- Recommended
- Erik Eisenmann
- Scott LeBlanc
- Laura Malugade
Labor and employment: Immigration
- Recommended
- Tiffany Baldwin
- Christine Fabin
- Kelli Meilink
M&A: middle-market (sub-$500 million)
- Recommended
- Steve Carman
- Ashley Edwards
- Chris Hamlin
- Phil Koutnik
- John Moore
- Matthew Schneider
- Tom Shorter
- Kirstin Salzman
- Edward Wilson
Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection) – Firm to Watch
Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Recommended
- Jennifer Dlugosz
- Joseph Kilpatrick
- J.Y Miller
- Richard Morgan
- Brandan Mueller
- Carli Pearson
- Doug Pfeifer
Real estate
- Recommended
- Jon Giokas
- Brandi Maiorino
- Charles Renner
Real estate: Construction (including construction litigation)
Real estate: Land use/zoning
- Recommended
- Rod Carter
- Kate David
- Sandy Hellums-Gomez
- Nikelle Meade
- Jake Remington
- David Richardson
Real estate finance
- Recommended
- Dan Bray
- Rebecca Mitich
- David Richardson
Transport: Aviation and air travel: finance
- Recommended
- David Agee
- Katie Giannasi
- Lauren Hawkins
- Chris Sundberg
- Amanda Tummons
- Lana Yaghi
The Legal 500 analyzes and ranks the capabilities of law firms around the world in over 150 jurisdictions with a comprehensive research program. The rankings highlight practice area teams that provide “the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel.” Research is based on feedback from 300,000 law firm clients worldwide, submissions from law firms and interviews with leading private practice lawyers.