Shook Excels in 2025 Chambers USA Rankings

Shook, Hardy & Bacon was widely recognized in the newly released Chambers USA 2025 directory, with notable upward momentum in the firm’s nationwide and regional practice and lawyer rankings.

This included new rankings for 19 individual lawyers and five practices and improved rankings for 20 lawyers and three practices, highlighting the firm’s commitment to legal excellence based on creative and practical solutions for industry leaders in a range of sectors.

The firm achieved Band 1 practice rankings in the following areas:

National:

• Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded 
• Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite 
• Product Liability: Automobile 
• Product Liability: Tobacco 

Regional: 

• Litigation: Product Liability 
• Construction 
• Intellectual Property 
• Litigation: Product Liability 
• Environment 
• Litigation: General Commercial 
• Litigation: Product Liability

Practice Area Rankings Full List: 

USA – Nationwide: 

• E-Discovery & Information Governance (Band 2)**
• Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation (Band 3)
• Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded (Band 1)
• Privacy & Data Security: Litigation (Band 2)
• Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite (Band 1)
• Product Liability: Automobile (Band 1)
• Product Liability: Tobacco (Band 1)
• Transportation: Road (Automotive) (Band 2)**

USA – Region: 

California

• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded (Band 3)*

Florida

• Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite (Band 3)
• Litigation: Product Liability (Band 1)

Illinois

• Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer (Band 3)
• Litigation: General Commercial (Band 3)**

Missouri

• Construction (Band 1)*
• Insurance (Band 2)
• Intellectual Property (Band 1)
• Litigation: Product Liability (Band 1)*

Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds

• Environment (Band 1)
• Labor & Employment (Band 3)
• Litigation: General Commercial (Band 1)

Pennsylvania 

• Litigation: Product Liability (Band 1)

Texas: Houston & Surrounds

• Litigation: General Commercial (Band 5)*

Washington

• Intellectual Property (Band 4)*

Shook Individual Lawyer USA - National Rankings:

• Robert Adams (Litigation: Trial Lawyers, Product Liability & Mass Torts)
• Jan Dodd (Product Liability & Mass Torts)
• Michael Gallub (Product Liability: Automobile)*
• William Geraghty (Product Liability & Mass Torts, Product Liability: Tobacco)
• John Johnson III (Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation, Up and Coming)*
• Michael Mallow (Product Liability: Automobile)
• Colman McCarthy (Privacy & Data Security: Cybersecurity)
• Madeleine McDonough (Product Liability & Mass Torts)
• Colm Moran (Transportation: Road (Automotive))
• Amir Nassihi (Product Liability: Automobile)
• Patrick Oot (E-Discovery & Information Governance, Star Individuals)**
• Homer Ramsey (Product Liability: Automobile)*
• Kenneth Reilly (Product Liability & Mass Torts, Product Liability: Tobacco)
• Alfred Saikali (Privacy & Data Security: Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Security: Litigation)
• Hildy Sastre (Product Liability & Mass Torts)**
• Michael Shortnacy (E-Discovery & Information Governance)**
• Adam Shoshtari (E-Discovery & Information Governance, Associates to Watch)
• Rachel Straus (Product Liability: Automobile)
• Camila Tobón (Privacy & Data Security: Privacy)
• Steven Weisburd (Product Liability & Mass Torts)

Shook Individual Lawyer Regional Rankings: 

Antitrust 

• Lynn Murray (Illinois)*

Construction

• Brandon Gutshall (Missouri)*
• Laura Lawson (Missouri)*

Environment

• John Barkett (Florida)
• Jad Davis (California)*
• Brent Dwerlkotte (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds)**
• David Erickson (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds)
• Thomas Grever (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds)
• Adam Miller (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds)

Insurance

• Robert Adams (Missouri)*
• Douglas Beck (Missouri)
• Sarah Lynn Baltzell (Missouri)

Insurance: Dispute Resolution

• Lynn Murray (Illinois)
• David Schoenfeld (Illinois)
• Matthew Sitzer (Illinois)

Intellectual Property

• Mike Gross (Missouri)
• B. Trent Webb (Missouri)

Labor & Employment

• Carrie McAtee (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds)*
• William Martucci (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds)

Litigation: Appellate

• Dan Rogers (Florida)

Litigation: General Commercial

• Robert Adams (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds)
• Amy Cho (Illinois)*
• Michael Mallow (California)
• Stephanie McGraw (Texas: Houston & Surrounds)
• Gary M. Miller (Illinois)
• Lynn H Murray (Illinois)**
• Joseph Rebein (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds)
• Todd W Ruskamp (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds)

Litigation: Product Liability

• Robert Adams (Missouri)*
• Jennifer Artman (Missouri)*
• Joseph Blum (Pennsylvania)*
• Katie Gates Calderon (Missouri)*
• Eben Flaster (Pennsylvania)*
• William Geraghty (Florida)
• Scott D. Kaiser (Missouri)*
• Erin Leffler (Pennsylvania)*
• Jennifer McLoone (Florida)
• Kenneth Reilly (Florida)
• Harley Ratliff (Missouri)*
• Hildy Sastre (Florida)
• Jennifer Voss (Florida)*

*Denotes new ranking
**Denotes band increase