Thompson Hine LLP is proud to announce that fourteen partners across seven offices have been named to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America list
Thompson Hine’s 2025 honorees:
- Kip T. Bollin (Cleveland), Partner in Charge, Product Liability, Business Litigation, Class Actions (Cleveland)
- Ricardo M. DeBari, Securities Litigation (New York)
- Eric S. Engel, Business Litigation, Appellate (Los Angeles)
- Karen F. Firstenberg, Product Liability, Mass Tort, Environmental (Los Angeles)
- Gregory T. Fouts, Business Litigation, Consumer Class Action (Chicago)
- Christine M. Haaker, Business Litigation (Dayton)
- Brian J. Lamb, Complex Business Litigation, Banking (Cleveland)
- Christopher K. Larus, IP & Technology Litigation (Minneapolis)
- Jennifer S. Roach, Antitrust Litigation (Cleveland)
- Seth A. Litman, Product Liability, Mass Tort (Atlanta)
- Conor A. McLaughlin, Product Liability, Mass Tort (Cleveland)
- Brittain Shaw, White Collar, Investigations, Litigation (New York)
- Elizabeth B. Wright, Product Liability, Business Litigation (Cleveland)
- Thomas F. Zych, Antitrust Litigation, Cybersecurity, IP (Cleveland)
Lawdragon’s selection process is rooted in more than three decades of rigorous, journalism-driven scrutiny of the legal profession. Drawing upon a collective century of experience in lawyer reporting and information services, its editorial team conducts an exhaustive evaluation that begins with open submissions and continues with independent investigative research into the attorneys and practices responsible for the most consequential contemporary matters. Those findings are then subjected to an additional layer of peer review by a board of leading subject-matter advisors, ensuring that each guide spotlights practitioners whose recent work has demonstrably shaped their respective fields. By coupling deep journalistic inquiry with informed practitioner-level vetting, Lawdragon consistently produces authoritative guides that recognize only the most impactful lawyers and legal professionals.