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
Released October 28th 2025
Houston Elite
Dallas Elite
Austin Elite
Kansas
Minneapolis Elite
Missouri Elite
Indianapolis Elite
Chicago Elite
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Northern Great Plains
San Antonio
Current Research
Interview deadline February 20th
Submission deadline May 8th
Researcher details below
Austin Elite – Corporate and M&A
Austin Elite – Commercial disputes
Austin Elite – Energy litigation
Austin Elite – Energy: transactional
Austin Elite -Energy regulatory
Austin Elite – Intellectual property
Austin Elite – White-collar crime
Austin Elite – Real estate
Austin Elite – Tax
Baltimore Elite – Commercial disputes – Benedicte Bolingo, [email protected]
Baltimore Elite – White-collar crime – Isha Khan, [email protected]
Baltimore Elite – Corporate and M&A – Benedicte Bolingo, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Labor & employment – Toby Helm, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Corporate and M&A – Robert Luhe, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Antitrust – Asra Ali, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Commercial disputes – Nora Lannert, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Insurance litigation – Nora Lannert, [email protected] / Luca Varga, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Product liability/torts – Luca Varga, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – White-collar crime – Shirley Coong, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Intellectual property – non-contentious – Erika Grimbley, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Intellectual property – contentious – Erika Grimbley, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Banking & Finance – Sandra John, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Life sciences and healthcare – Cecily Turner, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Technology, data, cybersecurity – Cecily Turner, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Real estate – Sam Clark, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Construction – Isha Khan, [email protected]
Chicago Elite – Tax – Joshua Midgley, [email protected]
Dallas Elite- Corporate and M&A
Dallas Elite- Commercial disputes
Dallas Elite- Energy litigation
Dallas Elite- Energy: transactional
Dallas Elite- Finance and restructuring
Dallas Elite -Personal injury
Dallas Elite – Real estate
Dallas Elite – Intellectual property
Dallas Elite – White-collar crime
Dallas Elite – Tax
Dallas Elite – Construction
Houston Elite – Corporate and M&A
Houston Elite – Product liability and mass torts
Houston Elite – Commercial disputes
Houston Elite – Energy litigation
Houston Elite – Energy: transactional
Houston Elite – Intellectual property
Houston Elite – Tax
Houston Elite – White-collar crime
Houston Elite – Finance and restructuring
Houston Elite – Real estate
Houston Elite – Construction
Houston Elite – Personal injury
Indianapolis Elite – Corporate and M&A – Juwariah Tariq, [email protected]
Indianapolis Elite – Commercial disputes – Asra Ali, [email protected]
Indianapolis Elite – Intellectual property – Sandra John, [email protected]
Indianapolis Elite – Labor & employment – Victor Nwankwo, [email protected]
Iowa Elite – Commercial disputes – Alice Young, [email protected]
Iowa Elite – Real estate – Iqra Bostan, [email protected]
Iowa Elite – Corporate and M&A – Alice Young, [email protected]
Kansas Elite – Corporate and M&A
Kansas Elite – Commercial disputes
Kansas Elite -Intellectual property
Kentucky Elite – Commercial disputes – Iqra Bostan, [email protected]
Kentucky Elite – Corporate and M&A – Victor Nwankwo, [email protected]
Ohio Elite – Tax – Jemma Hughes, [email protected]
Minneapolis Elite – Corporate and M&A – Irfan Ali, [email protected]
Minneapolis Elite – Commercial disputes – Irfan Ali, [email protected]
Minneapolis Elite – White-collar crime – Shahbaz Hashmi-Qureshi, [email protected]
Minneapolis Elite – Intellectual property – Shahbaz Hashmi-Qureshi, [email protected]
Minneapolis Elite – Banking & Finance – Juwariah Tariq, [email protected]
Missouri Elite – Commercial disputes – Giuseppina Domfeh, [email protected]
Missouri Elite – Corporate and M&A – Giuseppina Domfeh, [email protected]
Missouri Elite – Intellectual property – Xanji Westwood, [email protected]
Missouri Elite – Real estate – Xanji Westwood, [email protected]
Nashville/Tennessee Elite – Commercial disputes – Joshua Render, [email protected]
Nashville/Tennessee Elite – Corporate and M&A – Joshua Render, [email protected]
Nebraska Elite- Corporate and M&A
Nebraska Elite- Commercial disputes
Nebraska Elite- Insurance
Northern Great Plains Elite – Corporate and M&A
Northern Great Plains Elite- Commercial Disputes
Northern Great Plains Elite – Energy and natural resources
Oklahoma Elite – Corporate and M&A
Oklahoma Elite – Commercial disputes
Oklahoma Elite -Resources/Land use/Environment
Ohio Elite – Corporate and M&A – Jake Dinsdale, [email protected]
Ohio Elite – Commercial disputes – Noor Sharif, [email protected]
Ohio Elite – Finance and restructuring – Adam Weston, [email protected]
Ohio Elite – Real Estate – Adam Weston, [email protected]
Ohio Elite – White-collar crime – Max Boothby, [email protected]
Ohio Elite – Intellectual property – Max Boothby, [email protected]
San Antonio Elite – Corporate and M&A
San Antonio Elite – Commercial disputes
San Antonio Elite – Real estate
Wisconsin Elite – Commercial disputes – Sita Chhantyal, [email protected]
Wisconsin Elite – Intellectual property – Toby Helm, [email protected]
Wisconsin Elite – Corporate and M&A – Sita Chhantyal, [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])