Six Partners Listed Among Top Global Crisis Management Leaders

Six Shook Partners have been selected among the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management. The list highlights the top advisors who are the legal world’s “emergency responders.”

“They are best in class in the emerging practice of our times – in which crisis is a daily drumbeat and surviving to fight again the goal,” wrote Lawdragon. 

Lawdragon made its selections based on a combination of research, submissions and interviews with peers and clients. The following Shook partners were selected. 

• Jan Dodd: Litigation, Strategic Counseling
• Eben Flaster: Litigation, Strategic Counseling, Product Liability
• Kimberly Priest Johnson: Litigation, Strategic Counseling, Investigations
• Patrick Oot: Litigation, Strategic Counseling, Investigations
• Jennifer Stevenson: Litigation, Strategic Counseling, Risk Management
• Steven Weisburd: Litigation, Strategic Counseling

Shook is among the most active defense firms in the country when it comes to complex litigation. Shook attorneys have handled more than 100 MDLs, and maintain significant roles in more than 25 MDLs, including five of the 10 largest pending MDLs in the country.