Category: Awards & Recognition

We are pleased to announce that five Lewis & Llewellyn attorneys were recently named by Best Lawyers as leaders in their field for the 2025 edition.

Evangeline A.Z. Burbidge was selected by Best Lawyers as one of the Best Lawyers in America for her high caliber work and excellence in practice as a commercial litigator.

Additionally, Lewis & Llewellyn attorneys Becca Furman, Brad Estes, John Frost and Zachary Flood were recognized as “Ones to Watch,” an award given to attorneys who are in the earlier stages in their career to recognize their exceptional professional excellence in private practice.

With a selection process based on a rigorous peer review survey comprising more than 27 million confidential evaluations by top attorneys, this list is designed to capture the consensus opinion of leading lawyers across the country. Congratulations to the Lewis & Llewellyn attorneys selected!

We are pleased to announce that 14 Lewis & Llewellyn attorneys were recently named by Super Lawyers as leaders in their field.  Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained the highest degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Paul Llewellyn was once again recognized as one of the Top 100 Attorneys in Northern California, and Marc Lewis, Evangeline Burbidge, Ryan Erickson, Becca Furman, Tobias Snyder, Peter Squeri and Erin Reding were all selected as a Northern California Super Lawyers, a recognition limited to just 5% of California attorneys.

Additionally, John Frost, Brad Estes, Zachary Flood, Nitesh Daryanani, Sable Bahleda and Rina Plotkin were all selected as Rising Stars, an honor limited to just 2.5% of California attorneys.

We are thrilled to announce that our partner Evangeline Burbidge has been named by the Daily Journal as one of the Top Women Lawyers for 2024.  The annual award recognizes and honors the best 100 women lawyers practicing in the state of California.

Evan is an experienced litigator who represents both plaintiffs and defendants, focusing on trade secret theft litigation, contract disputes, and founders’ disputes. In the past three years, she has obtained over $50 million in judgments for our clients and has successfully defeated claims seeking over $500 million in damages.  She has also been recognized by Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Lawyer Monthly, Benchmark Litigation, and has had several monetary awards featured in the Daily Journal.

In her interview with the Daily Journal, Evan talks about her path to becoming an attorney, the $25.7M jury verdict she helped secure last year for our client EchoSpan, and the important lessons she learned from previous trials—including why “it works much, much better with juries to have live witnesses in the courtroom” rather than playing deposition testimony.  Evan’s complete profile can be read here.

Partners and Co-Founders Marc Lewis and Paul Llewellyn were recently selected by Benchmark Litigation as “Benchmark Litigation Stars” in their “Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Firms and Attorneys” 2024 edition.  Additionally, Partners Ryan Erickson and Evangeline Burbidge were named as “Benchmark Litigation Future Stars” for the upcoming year.

These rankings are based on extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists, and clients as well as analysis of the market’s most important cases and firm developments.  As the definitive guide to the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers, Benchmark recognizes attorneys who have demonstrated the ability to reliably handle complex, high-stakes cases in multiple jurisdictions.

The Daily Journal recently named Paul Llewellyn to its annual list of the Top 100 Lawyers in California.  This list honors the most highly regarded attorneys in the state who execute cutting edge legal work and make an impact on their clients, the industry, and society at large.  Paul was recognized not only for his success handling complex business litigation matters, but also for his commitment to representing sexual abuse survivors and obtaining justice on their behalf.  A copy of The Daily Journal’s profile on Paul can be found here.

Lewis & Llewellyn is pleased to announce that partners Marc Lewis, Paul Llewellyn, Ryan Erickson, and Becca Furman have been selected by The National Law Journal (“NLJ”) to its 2022 list of Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Trailblazers.  The NLJ selected just 50 plaintiffs’ attorneys across the United States who it characterized as “truly agents of change.”  In selecting the firm for this honor, the NLJ recognized the firm’s groundbreaking work bringing civil lawsuits on behalf of survivors of sexual abuse.  Lewis & Llewellyn is unique among litigation boutiques in that it splits its practice approximately 50-50 on the plaintiff and defense side.  By applying the same aggressive advocacy it deploys on behalf of its business litigation clients, the firm has recovered tens of millions of dollars on behalf of survivors of sexual abuse and has driven institutional change to help prevent future instances of abuse.  A copy of the NLJ’s profile of the firm can be found here.