The attorney who successfully argued the Blakely and Crawford cases in debut appearances before the Supreme Court. The youngest dean in Columbia Law School history. The first woman to become attorney general of Illinois.
These attorneys and others, who’ve made partner, overseen multibillion-dollar mergers and coordinated cases on multiple continents, all before age 40, are among the people spotlighted in this National Law Journal survey.Of Special Note:
David Anders, 35
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Bagging corporate criminals is his game
Alice Fisher, 38
DOJ’s Criminal Division
Nominated to be chief of DOJ Criminal Division
Jeffrey L. Fisher, 34,
Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle
In his debut before the U.S. Supreme Court, he won two key cases
Thomas C. Goldstein, 34
Goldstein & Howe, Washington
Finding a second home at the high court via the “nation’s only Supreme Court litigation boutique”
Jameel Jaffer, 33
American Civil Liberties Union
Watchdog leads charge over civil liberties
Lisa Madigan, 38
Illinois attorney general
State’s first female AG puts in long hours as “the people’s lawyer”
Kevin J. Martin, 38
Federal Communications Commission
New FCC chairman faces digital age issues
Patricia Menendez-Cambo, 38
Greenberg Traurig
Combining corporate sense and international perspective to do big deals in Latin America
Faiza Saeed, 39
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Mergers and acquisitions? We’re talking “billions” with a “B”
David Schizer, 36
Columbia Law School
Columbia’s youngest dean compels his students to look to “the real world”
