Loeb & Loeb Honored with Top Rankings in 2025 Legal 500 United States Guide

Loeb & Loeb is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized as a leading law firm in the 2025 edition of the Legal 500 United States, with 87 lawyers and 17 practice areas earning distinction in the latest guide.

Loeb & Loeb achieved top-tier rankings in the areas of:
Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
Copyright
M&A: Middle-Market
Not-for-Profit (Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations and Charities)

In addition, the following 13 practice areas achieved national rankings as premiere practices in the U.S.:

Advertising and Marketing: Litigation 
Media and Entertainment: Litigation 
Media and Entertainment: Transactional 
Outsourcing 
Trademarks: Non-Contentious (Including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing) 
Land Use/Zoning 
Sports
Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection) 
Real Estate
Technology Transactions
Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders
Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates 
Life Sciences 

In addition, seven of the firm’s partners were recognized in the “Hall of Fame;” nine partners were named as “Leading Partners;” two partners were named as "Next Generation Partners;” and one associate was named a "Leading Associate" in their respective fields. 

Hall of Fame
Kenneth Florin (Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory)
Brian Heidelberger (Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory)
Mitchell Nussbaum (M&A: Middle-Market)
Marc Owens (Not-for-Profit (Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations and Charities)
Barry Slotnick (Copyright)
Akiba Stern (Outsourcing) 
James Taylor (Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory) 

Leading Partners
Kenneth Adler (Outsourcing) 
Diara Holmes (Not-for-Profit (Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations and Charities)
Melanie Howard (Trademarks: Non-Contentious (Including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing))
Jason Lilien (Not-for-Profit (Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations and Charities)
David Mallen (Advertising and Marketing: Litigation) 
Doug Masters (Sports) 
Ronelle Porter (M&A: Middle-Market)
Seth Rose (Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory)
Alison Pollock Schwartz (Outsourcing) 
 
Next Generation Partners
Benjamin Kabak (Outsourcing)
Bess Morgan (Trademarks: Non-Contentious (Including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing); Media and Entertainment: Transactional)

Leading Associates
Lisa Wiznitzer (Sports)

The full list of Loeb lawyers receiving national recognition in The Legal 500 United States for 2025 includes the following:

Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
Amir Azaran
Melanie Howard
Kenneth Florin
Brian Heidelberger
Nate Hole
Caroline Hudson
Nerissa Coyle McGinn
Seth Rose
James Taylor

Copyright
Michael Barry
David Grossman
Melanie Howard
Barry Slotnick 

M&A: Middle-Market (Sub-$500 Million)
Arash Khalili
Lloyd Rothenberg
Giovanni Caruso
Ann Chen
Allan Duboff
Ross Emmerman
Mike Grossman
David Levine
Barry Mehlman
Mitchell Nussbaum
Ronelle Porter
Megan Stombock
Tahra Wright

Not-for-Profit (Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations and Charities)
Diara Holmes
Jason Lilien
Marc Owens
Leah Bishop
Meghan Biss
Yael Fuchs
Talia Metson

Advertising and Marketing: Litigation
Tom Jirgal
David Mallen
Libby O’Neill

Media & Entertainment: Litigation
Christian Carbone
David Grossman
Jim Curry
Tal Dickstein
Lauren Fried
John Gatti
Barry Slotnick

Media & Entertainment: Transactional
Scott Edel
Anne Kennedy McGuire
Roger Arar
Ivy Kagan Bierman
Marc Chamlin
Derek Crownover
John Frankenheimer
Carol Kaplan
Bess Morgan
Stefan Schick
Paul Swanson
Debbie White

Outsourcing
Kenneth Adler
Benjamin Kabak
Alison Pollock Schwartz
Akiba Stern

Trademarks: Non-Contentious (Including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing)
Melanie Howard
Sara Crisafulli
Bess Morgan
Jorge Arciniega
David Grace

Land Use/Zoning
Raymond Sanseverino
Steven Kornblau
Paul Rohrer
Allan Abshez
Elizabeth Camacho
Sophia Mei-ling Chang
Nichole Cortese
Gillian Kessler

Sports
Arash Khalili
Brian Socolow
Brian Heidelberger
Doug Masters
Seth Rose
Lisa Wiznitzer
Scott Zolke

Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense
Andy DeVooght
Jeremy Margolis
Jay Musoff

Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
Jessica Lee
Michael Barry
Nate Hole
Melanie Howard
Ryan Martin
Nerissa Coyle McGinn
Robyn Mohr

Real Estate
Chris Barbaruolo
Raymond Sanseverino
Victoria Stephanova 
Nichole Cortese
Steven Kornblau

Technology Transactions
Kenneth Adler
Akiba Stern

Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank lenders
Peter Seiden
Anthony Pirraglia
Peter Beardsley
Jeffrey Fried
Nate Minott
Erica Yang

Life Sciences
Jim Czaban
Kathleen Gersh
Devin Donohue
Allan Duboff
Andy Hutchison
Bethany Simmons

The Legal 500 rankings highlight the practice area teams who are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel. The annual research is based on feedback from clients worldwide, submissions from law firms and interviews with leading private practice lawyers. For more information about The Legal 500 United States, please click here.