The Legal 500 recommended 20 Husch Blackwell practice areas in the United States 2026 guide released today and extensively ranked individual firm attorneys. For the sixth straight year, the firm’s Higher Education team earned the “Top Tier Firm” designation.
Additionally, the firm earned recognition in key practices such as energy, healthcare, mergers and acquisitions, complex torts, and real estate, among others. A complete list of firm and attorney rankings are below.
Cannabis
- Leading partners
- Marshall Custer
- Steve Levine
- Leading associates
- Alyssa Samuel
- Megan Beebe
- Recommended attorneys
- Michael Brandess
- Lindy Martinez
- Brent Salmons
E-discovery
- Recommended attorneys
- Jennifer Cavner
- Tessa Jacob
- Steve Neeley
- Kip Randall
Education – Top Tier Firm
- Leading partners
- Recommended attorneys
- John Borkowski
- Anne Cartwright
- Marisa De Feo
- Mary Deweese
- Hayley Hanson
- Julie Miceli
- Jason Montgomery
- Sean Tassi
- Derek Teeter
Energy: Energy regulation: electric power
- Recommended attorneys
- Sylvia Bartell
- Mike Blackwell
- Richard Bonnifield
- Carrie Collier-Brown
- Holly Heinrich
- Anna Kimbrell
- Brian Potts
- Chris Reeder
- Jeff Vercauteren
- Linda Walsh
- Alaina Zermeno
- David Zoppo
Energy: Renewable/alternative power
- Leading partners
- Recommended attorneys
Financial services regulation: Consumer finance
- Recommended attorneys
- Christopher Friedman
- Marci Kawski
- Susan Seaman
- Leslie Sowers
Government contracts
- Recommended attorneys
- Steve Neeley
- Hal Perloff
- Brian Waagner
Healthcare: Life sciences
- Recommended attorneys
- Stephen Gardner
- Don Mizerk
- Bryan Stewart
Healthcare: Service providers
- Recommended attorneys
- Ragini Acharya
- Robert Blaisdell
- Crystal Bloom
- Curt Chase
- Pete Enko
- Alison Hollender
- Hal Katz
- Tom Shorter
- Harvey Tettlebaum
Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Recommended attorneys
- Kirsten Byrd
- Jason Fathallah
- Dieter Juedes
- David Sobelman
- Lauren Ybarra
Intellectual property - Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Leading partners
- Recommended attorneys
- Kara Fussner
- Jennifer Hoekel
- Paul Smelcer
Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Recommended attorneys
- David Eckhardt
- Molly Hobbs
- Allen Kandel
- Craig Kovarik
Labor and employment: Workplace and employment counseling – Firm to Watch
Labor and employment: Immigration
- Recommended attorneys
- Tiffany Baldwin
- Edgar Ceniceros-Herrada
- Christine Fabin
- Kelli Meilink
M&A: middle-market (sub-$500 million)
- Recommended attorneys
- Steve Carman
- Ashley Edwards
- Kirstin Salzman
- Ed Wilson
Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Recommended attorneys
- Jen Dlugosz
- Joe Kilpatrick
- J.Y Miller
- Brandan Mueller
- Lisa Oberg
- Jacob Sawyer
- Kelvin Wyles
Real estate
- Recommended attorneys
- Jon Giokas
- Andrew Hodgson
- David Linenbroker
- Charles Renner
Real estate: Construction (including construction litigation)
- Recommended attorneys
- Joshua Levy
- Eric Meier
- Brent Meyer
- Jeff Whitney
Real estate: Land use/zoning
- Recommended attorneys
- Rod Carter
- Kate David
- Sandy Hellums-Gomez
- Nikelle Meade
- Jake Remington
- David Richardson
Real estate finance
- Recommended attorneys
- Dan Bray
- Rebecca Mitich
- David Richardson
Transport: Aviation and air travel: finance
- Recommended attorneys
- David Agee
- Lauren Hawkins
- Whitney Lopez
- 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.