2019 Acritas Stars features 148 Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers
Press release | March 2019
Acritas has named 148 Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers to its 2019 Acritas Stars list, which serves as “a source of highly recommended lawyers, put together purely by the clients who pay for those lawyers, with no influence from law firms.”
Following four years of research, Acritas has reviewed more than 10,000 independent nominations of lawyers from law firm clients around the world. More than 8,000 individual lawyers have been identified altogether from 4,300 clients.
Of these lawyers, the Acritas Stars received nominations from more than one client and are hailed as “stand-out lawyers, who create a significant uplift in client satisfaction, advocacy and share of wallet.”
The nominations are collected during a broader research study of senior in-house counsel, Acritas’ global Sharplegal study. The research has revealed the huge impact Acritas Stars make on a variety of performance metrics, including “quality of expertise, closeness to client, being innovative and cost-effective[ness].”
In Acritas’ most recent Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index, Norton Rose Fulbright ranked fourth overall. The global law firm finished fourth for four straight years and placed in the top five for five consecutive years.
Acritas is a global legal services market business research firm, which also conducts Norton Rose Fulbright’s market-leading Litigation Trends Annual Survey.
Australia
| Liz Allnutt | Perth |
| Mark Attard | Melbourne |
| Keira Brennan | Brisbane |
| Ka-Chi Cheung | Melbourne |
| Tricia Hobson | Sydney |
| Elisa de Wit | Melbourne |
| Nigel Jones | Melbourne |
| Chanel Mercurio | Melbourne |
| Ganga Narayanan | Melbourne |
| Nicole Wearne | Melbourne |
| Rebecca Whittle | Sydney |
Canada
EMEA
| Duncan Batchelor | London |
| Andreas Börner | Munich |
| Alexey Borodak | Moscow |
| Giles Brand | London |
| Cecilia Buresti | Milan |
| Berend Crans | Amsterdam |
| Uwe Eppler | Hamburg |
| Jill Gauntlett | London |
| Chris Grieves | London |
| Bob Haken | London |
| Philippe Hameau | Paris |
| Jonathan Herbst | London |
| Sun Hong | Shanghai |
| Salvatore Iannitti | Milan |
| Craig Loveless | Singapore |
| Daniel Metcalfe | London |
| Nick Merritt | Singapore |
| Fiona Millington | London |
| Karine Montagut | Paris |
| Andrey Panov | Moscow |
| Mohammed Paracha | Dubai |
| Attilio Pavone | Milan |
| Sherina Petit | London |
| Maria Ross | London |
| David Shearer | London |
| Mark Simpson | London |
| Remco Smorenburg | Amsterdam |
| Peter Snowdon | London |
| Joanne Emerson Taqi | Bahrain |
| Anna Tipping | Singapore |
| Julian Traill | Moscow |
| Paul Vine | Amsterdam |
| Klaus von Gierke | Hamburg |
| David Whear | London |
| Mark Lloyd Williams | London |
| Lynn Yang | Shanghai |
South Africa
| Karen Ainslie | Johannesburg |
| Patrick Bracher | Johannesburg |
| Michael Dale | Johannesburg |
| Michelle David | Johannesburg |
| Brian Denny | Durban |
| Lauren Fine | Cape Town |
| Ross Lomax | Johannesburg |
| André Vos | Johannesburg |
| Marianne Wagener | Johannesburg |
| Marelise van der Westhuizen | Johannesburg |
US
| C. Mark Baker | Houston |
| Jerry Bell | Austin |
| Clayton Binford | San Antonio |
| John Boehm | Riyadh |
| Brandon Byrne | Dallas |
| Shauna Clark | Houston |
| Carter Crow | Houston |
| William Davis | Houston |
| Thomas Dowdell | Washington DC |
| James Dreyfus | New York |
| Larry Franceski | Washington DC |
| Mark Garrett | Austin |
| Joseph Graham | Houston |
| Kenneth Hansen | Washington DC |
| Glen Hettinger | Dallas |
| Charles Johnson | Sao Paulo |
| Daryl Lansdale | Houston |
| Gene Lewis | Denver |
| Justin Long | Austin |
| Jeffrey Margulies | Los Angeles |
| James Marlin | New York |
| John Mauel | Houston |
| Michael McCourt | Sao Paulo |
| Saul Perloff | San Antonio |
| Yvonne Puig | Austin |
| Eagle Robinson | Austin |
| Bryn Sappington | Dallas |
| Donald Strauber | New York |
| Neil Thomas | Houston |
| Ross Viguet | Dallas |
For further information please contact:
Australia
Alex Boxsell, Head of Digital Content and Campaigns
Tel +61 2 9330 8165
alex.boxsell@nortonrosefulbright.com
Canada
Chantal Ouimet, External Communications Manager
Tel: +1 514 847 4349
chantal.ouimet@nortonrosefulbright.com
United States and Latin America
Dan McKenna, US Director, Communications
Tel +1 713 651 3576
dan.mckenna@nortonrosefulbright.com
Africa
Rachel Lailey, Content Manager
Tel +27 11 685 8624
rachel.lailey@nortonrosefulbright.com
Europe, Middle East and Asia
Heledd Phelps-Brown, Head of Public Relations, EMEA
Tel +44 20 7444 2890
heledd.phelps-brown@nortonrosefulbright.com
Notes for editors:
Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm providing the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. The firm has more than 4,000 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East.
Recognized for its industry focus, Norton Rose Fulbright is strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare. Through its global risk advisory group, the firm leverages its industry experience with its knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.
Norton Rose Fulbright operates in accordance with its global business principles of quality, unity and integrity, aiming to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of its offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.
Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, a Swiss verein, helps coordinate the activities of Norton Rose Fulbright members but does not itself provide legal services to clients. Norton Rose Fulbright has offices in more than 50 cities worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg. For more information, see nortonrosefulbright.com/legal-notices.