Insights

Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

Washington – June 7, 2024: Crowell & Moring is proud to announce that Sadina Montani was elected president-elect of the D.C. Bar for the 2024-2025 term.

Washington – June 6, 2024: Crowell & Moring earned 78 rankings for 67 lawyers, as well as 41 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2024 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.

Brussels and Doha – April 1, 2024: The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 2024 edition has recognized 16 practice areas and 11 lawyers in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels and Doha offices. The 11 individual lawyers received 18 total rankings across the 16 different practice areas.

Washington – January 10, 2024: Crowell & Moring has published Litigation Forecast 2024: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year. The 12th-annual Litigation Forecast focuses on trends in intellectual property, regulatory and other U.S. litigation, with special coverage of supply chain recovery and international litigation.

Washington – June 1, 2023: Crowell & Moring earned 82 rankings for 68 lawyers across 48 categories, as well as 37 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2023 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.

Washington – June 1, 2022: Chambers and Partners has ranked 70 Crowell & Moring lawyers in 84 rankings across 40 categories in the Chambers USA 2022 guide. In addition, 37 practice areas were also ranked in the guide. The regional and national rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers.

San Francisco – February 23, 2022: Christopher J. Banks joins Crowell & Moring’s San Francisco office as a partner in its Litigation and Labor & Employment groups, bringing more than two decades of experience litigating commercial and labor and employment matters, including employee mobility and trade secret misappropriation disputes. Banks is a trial lawyer who helps companies--from startups to the Fortune 500--solve problems concerning founders’ disputes and “business divorces,” contract disputes, trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition, employee departures, wage and hour claims, Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) lawsuits, and other commercial and labor and employment matters. He also advises clients and litigates in matters involving intellectual property rights, technology licensing and development arrangements, and breach of fiduciary duty and other business torts.

Washington – August 31, 2021: Crowell & Moring is expanding its tax and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) capabilities with the addition of Anthony G. Provenzano, a veteran executive compensation and employee benefits lawyer.

Washington, D.C. – April 14, 2021: Toni Michelle Jackson, Deputy Attorney General of the Public Interest Division at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia (OAG), is joining Crowell & Moring as a partner in its Litigation and Labor & Employment groups, as well as State Attorneys General practice.  

Doha – April 5, 2021: Crowell & Moring and the German Business Council Qatar (GBCQ) held a webinar on the latest developments regarding Qatari labor and employment reforms. The virtual event, which took place on Monday, was presented by Michael Palmer, senior counsel at the firm.

Washington – March 5, 2021: Crowell & Moring lawyers participated in the National Bar Association Commercial Law Section’s 34th Annual Corporate Counsel Conference, serving as moderators for “fireside chats” with chief executives on topics ranging from how corporate legal departments function to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the private sector to outside counsel guidelines. Taking place virtually from February 23-26, the annual conference was “a place to nurture connections and… spend three days in fellowship with corporate attorneys from law firms and companies around the world.”

Washington – February 8, 2021: The Irish Voice named Crowell & Moring’s Christine Hawes to the annual “Irish Legal 100” list. The list is a “compilation of the most distinguished legal professionals in the United States who share one common bond: pride in their Irish roots.” The “Irish Legal 100 2020” marks the thirteenth annual edition of the list.

Los Angeles – December 22, 2020: The Los Angeles Business Journal has named partner Nicole Janigian Simonian to its 2020 “Thriving in their 40s” list. The feature honors 95 outstanding professionals from various industries “who serve as terrific examples of trusted advisors whose services the businesses of Los Angeles simply cannot do without.” Simonian is co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group, serves as the firm’s International Employment and Global Mobility lead, and is a director of the firm’s China consulting subsidiary, CMI Shanghai.

Washington – August 20, 2020: The 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has named two Crowell & Moring lawyers – Laura A. Foggan and Paul W. Mourning– as a "Lawyer of the Year" in their respective categories and regions. The publication also recognized 46 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and nine lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

Washington — August 3, 2020: Crowell & Moring is expanding its False Claims Act, complex investigations, and litigation prowess with the addition of Preston Pugh, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois, former litigation and compliance investigations counsel at GE Healthcare, and three-time appointed compliance monitor. Pugh joins the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner, serving on the steering committee of the firm’s False Claims Act practice, and will work across Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts, White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement, Labor & Employment, and Health Care groups.