What is Legal 500 US Elite?
Legal 500 US Elite aims to highlight key lawyers operating at regional players across business centres in the United States.
Notably, US Elite seeks to recognize key US lawyers outside global firms, opting to focus on those at regional powerhouses that may not receive comparable recognition in other rankings. US Elite emphasizes lawyers who are handling work at the top of the legal market in their respective cities, states, or regions. The ranking is distinct from the main Legal 500 US guide, with lawyers ranked by tier as individuals rather than as teams.
How are lawyers selected for US Elite?
Our research includes interviews with top practitioners, peer feedback, and evidence of key matters worked on by the ranked attorneys during the past year. An initial shortlist of attorneys is produced by the research team using internal and external data sets, with submissions from firms also welcomed independently of the shortlist process.
All interested lawyers are invited to participate in an interview with our researchers, and also have the option of making a written submission. During the interview, we also solicit extensive peer feedback regarding other lawyers operating in their respective legal sectors.
Law firms are welcome to proactively submit attorneys for consideration.
Submission
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We’re excited to launch our new, streamlined Legal 500 submission portal, designed to make the entire process clearer, faster and easier to navigate.
To send your submissions to us, please visit submissions.legal500.com and follow the onscreen prompts to send us new documents.
If you do not have login details or have problems accessing submissions.legal500.com, please get in touch to request details via https://legal500.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new, filing a request under the “Login details – portal” category.
Dates
Houston Elite
Dallas Elite
Austin Elite
Kansas Elite
Oklahoma Elite
Nebraska Elite
Northern Great Plains Elite
San Antonio Elite
Current Research
Interview deadline: April 24th 2026
Submission deadline/research: May 8th 2026
Researcher details below
Austin Elite – Corporate and M&A – Irfan Ali [email protected]
Austin Elite- Commercial disputes – Shahbaz Hashmi-Qureshi [email protected]
Austin Elite- Energy litigation – Benedicte Bolingo [email protected]
Austin Elite – Energy: transactional – Toby Helm [email protected]
Austin Elite – Energy regulatory – Iqra Bostan [email protected]
Austin Elite – Intellectual property – Iqra Bostan [email protected]
Austin Elite – White-collar crime – Asra Ali [email protected]
Austin Elite – Real estate – Victor Nwankwo [email protected]
Austin Elite- Tax – Benedicte Bolingo [email protected]
Houston Elite -Corporate and M&A – Alice Young [email protected]
Houston Elite – Product liability and mass torts – Sandra John [email protected]
Houston Elite – Commercial disputes – Xanji Westwood [email protected]
Houston Elite – Energy litigation – Cecily Turner, [email protected]
Houston Elite – Energy: transactional – Xanji Westwood [email protected]
Houston Elite- Intellectual property – Jemma Hughes [email protected]
Houston Elite – Tax – Joshua Render, [email protected]
Houston Elite- White-collar crime -Maximillian Boothby [email protected]
Houston Elite -Construction – Joshua Midgley, [email protected]
Houston Elite – Real Estate – Joshua Midgley, [email protected]
Houston Elite – Finance and restructuring – Jemma Hughes [email protected]
Dallas Elite – Corporate and M&A – Noor Sharif, [email protected]
Dallas Elite – Commercial disputes – Isha Khan, [email protected]
Dallas Elite – Energy litigation – Nora Lannert, [email protected]
Dallas Elite – Energy: transactional – Giuseppina Domfeh [email protected]
Dallas Elite – Finance and restructuring – Noor Sharif [email protected]
Dallas Elite – Intellectual property – Giuseppina Domfeh [email protected]
Dallas Elite – White-collar crime – Juwariah Tariq. [email protected]
Dallas Elite – Tax – Jake Dinsdale, [email protected]
Dallas Elite – Real Estate – Sandra John, [email protected]
San Antonio/South Texas Elite – Corporate and M&A – Shirley Coong [email protected]
San Antonio/South Texas Elite – Commercial disputes – Shirley Coong [email protected]
San Antonio/South Texas Elite – Energy – Luca Varga [email protected]
San Antonio/South Texas Elite – Real estate – Luca Varga [email protected]
Northern Great Plains Elite – Corporate and M&A – Adam Weston [email protected]
Northern Great Plains Elite – Commercial disputes – Adam Weston [email protected]
Northern Great Plains Elite – Energy and natural resources – Nora Lannert [email protected]
Oklahoma Elite – Corporate and M&A – Juwariah Tariq [email protected]
Oklahoma Elite – Commercial disputes – Asra Ali, [email protected]
Oklahoma Elite – Energy – Victor Nwankwo, [email protected]
Nebraska Elite – Corporate and M&A – Toby Helm [email protected]
Nebraska Elite- Commercial disputes – Cecily Turner [email protected]
Nebraska Elite – Insurance – Joshua Render, [email protected]
Kansas Elite – Corporate and M&A – Jake Dinsdale [email protected]
Kansas Elite – Commercial disputes – Jake Dinsdale [email protected]
Contact
Editorial
Editor – Legal 500 United States Barnaby Merrill ([email protected])
Research Managers – US City Elite Hannah Chisholm ([email protected]); Oliver Punchard ([email protected])