Twenty-four Perkins Coie Lawyers of the Year Named by Best Lawyers® for 2025
SEATTLE (August 15, 2024)—Perkins Coie is proud to announce that 24 of its lawyers from eight metropolitan areas have been named 2025 Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers®.
The Best Lawyers in America list is based on peer-review assessments conducted with thousands of leading lawyers each year. Lawyers honored as “Lawyer of the Year” are selected based on impressive voting averages and high ratings received during the process for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
The Perkins Coie lawyers named 2025 Lawyers of the Year are:
| Lawyer | Practicing in | Metropolitan Area |
| Eric B. Fjelstad* | Litigation - Environmental | Anchorage |
| James N. Leik | Product Liability Litigation - Defendants | Anchorage |
| David St. John-Larkin | Patent Law | Denver |
| Jason Day | Securities Regulation | Denver |
| Peter J. Kinsella | Technology Law | Denver |
| Charles G. Curtis, Jr.** | Appellate Practice | Madison |
| Michelle M. Kemp | Litigation - Patent | Madison |
| Christopher D. Thomas | Litigation - Environmental | Phoenix |
| Roy W. Tucker** | Securities / Capital Markets Law; Securities Regulation | Portland, OR |
| James G. Snell* | Technology Law | Palo Alto |
| Alan D. Smith | Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law | Seattle |
| Bruce Michael Cross* | Labor Law - Management | Seattle |
| Charles N. Eberhardt | Education Law | Seattle |
| David C. Clarke** | Corporate Law; Securities / Capital Markets Law | Seattle |
| David J. Burman | Litigation - First Amendment | Seattle |
| Deborah J. Phillips* | Litigation - Trusts and Estates | Seattle |
| Judy Jennison | Copyright Law | Seattle |
| Kathleen M. O'Sullivan | Bet-the-Company Litigation | Seattle |
| Stewart M. Landefeld | Corporate Governance Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law | Seattle |
| Susan E. Foster | Trade Secrets Law | Seattle |
| Thomas L. Boeder | Litigation - Antitrust | Seattle |
| William Cheever Rava | Litigation - Intellectual Property | Seattle |
*First time named “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers
**Two Years in a row
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