Tucker Ellis is pleased to announce that it has earned 29 individual lawyer rankings and 11 practice area rankings in Chambers USA 2026.

Individual lawyers are ranked in their practice area(s) on the basis of their legal knowledge and experience, ability, effectiveness, and client service. Practices are ranked on the quality of their lawyers, as well as the effectiveness, capability, strength, and depth of the practice as a whole. Listed below are the Tucker Ellis ranked lawyers and the categories in which they are ranked.

• Gregory Abrams – Band 5, Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Karl Bekeny – Band 2, Insurance: Insurer (Ohio)
• Mollie Benedict – Band 6, Product Liability & Mass Torts (USA – Nationwide)
• Jay Campbell – Band 3, Intellectual Property (Ohio)
• Nicholas Clifford – Band 3, Intellectual Property (Missouri)
• Patrick Clunk – Band 3, Intellectual Property (Ohio)
• Carlos Garritano – Band 2, Intellectual Property (Ohio)
• Christopher Hewitt – Band 4, Corporate/M&A (Ohio: North)
• Laura Kingsley Hong – Band 1, Product Liability: Toxic Torts (USA – Nationwide)
• Jayne Juvan – Band 3, Corporate/M&A (Ohio: North)
• Maha Kabbash – Band 3, Litigation: Product Liability (New Jersey)[1]
• Sherry Knutson – Band 1, Litigation: Product Liability (Illinois); Band 3, Product Liability & Mass Torts (USA – Nationwide)
• John McCaffrey – Band 1, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Ohio)
• Jennifer Mesko – Band 2, Insurance: Insurer (Ohio)
• Chelsea Mikula – Band 3, Litigation: General Commercial (Ohio)
• Brian O’Neill – Band 3, Corporate/M&A (Ohio: North); Band 4, Real Estate (Ohio)
• Keith Raker – Band 2, Real Estate (Ohio)
• Peter Rome – Band 3, Corporate/M&A (Ohio: North)
• John Slagter – Band 1, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Ohio)
• David Steele – Band 4, Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (California)
• Scott Stitt – Band 2, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Ohio)
• Anthony Vacanti – Band 1, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Ohio)
• Charissa Walker – Up and Coming, Product Liability & Mass Torts (USA – Nationwide)
• Chaz Weber – Band 2, Real Estate (Ohio)
• Sandra Wunderlich – Band 3, Intellectual Property (Missouri)
• Kevin Young – Band 1, Insurance: Insurer (Ohio)
• Michael Zellers – Band 6, Product Liability & Mass Torts (USA – Nationwide)

Chambers USA ranked Tucker Ellis in the following areas of practice:

• Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite (USA – Nationwide) – Band 3
• Corporate/M&A (Ohio: North) – Band 2
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Ohio) – Band 3
• Insurance: Insurer (Ohio) – Band 1
• Intellectual Property (Missouri) – Band 3
• Intellectual Property (Ohio) – Band 2
• Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (California) – Band 4
• Litigation: General Commercial (Ohio) – Band 3 ­­
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Ohio) – Band 2
• Real Estate (Ohio) – Band 2
• Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Ohio) – Band 1

About Chambers USA

The Chambers USA guide and legal rankings cover practice areas in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and at the nationwide level, with hundreds of practice area-based ranking tables identifying the best practice groups and lawyers working across the U.S. legal market. For more information, visit chambers.com.

About Tucker Ellis LLP

Tucker Ellis LLP is a full service law firm of more than 240 attorneys with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, D.C. Metro Area, Los Angeles, Morristown, New York City, Orange County, San Francisco, and St. Louis. The firm is proud to serve a Fortune 250 list of national litigation and intellectual property clients, as well as sophisticated business transactions clients, for whom we individually tailor our client service teams. For more information, please visit tuckerellis.com.

[1] No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.