Goodwin received 44 practice rankings and 172 of the firm’s lawyers were ranked in the 2025 edition of The Legal 500 United States. The annual rankings are based on in-depth research, including feedback from clients and peers, to highlight firms with a truly national presence and the capability to handle sophisticated and complex work.
Client feedback praised Goodwin as “the best in the industry when it comes to responsiveness,” stating that its an “all-around excellent team with tremendous client focus” and “the most knowledge of market terms.”
Goodwin’s Tier 1 rankings highlight its work in Private Equity, Venture Capital, Technology, REITs, Patents Licensing, and Cannabis, while the firm added new rankings in Healthcare, Patents Litigation (International Trade Commission), Antitrust & Competition, Financial Services Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate Finance and Patents Prosecution. Among the highly ranked Goodwin lawyers were seven Hall of Fame Lawyers, 15 Leading Partners, and 13 Next Generation Partners.
The Goodwin practice rankings in this year’s Legal 500 United States include:
- Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Action: Defense
- Appellate — Courts of Appeals
- Appellate — Supreme Courts (State and Federal)
- Cannabis
- Capital Markets: Debt — Advice to Issuers
- Capital Markets: Debt — Advice to Underwriters
- Capital Markets: Equity — Advice to Issuers
- Capital Markets: Equity — Advice to Managers
- Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
- Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
- Customs, Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
- E-Discovery
- Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- ERISA Litigation
- Financial Services: Litigation
- Financial Services Regulation (Banking)
- FinTech
- Healthcare: Service Providers
- International Trade: CFIUS
- Life Sciences
- M&A Litigation: Defense
- M&A: Large Deals
- Merger Control
- Patents Litigation: Full Coverage
- Patents Litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Patents: Licensing
- Patents: Prosecution
- Private Equity Buyouts: Middle Market
- Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)
- Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products - Defense
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- Restructuring (including Bankruptcy) Corporate
- Securities Litigation: Defense
- Shareholder Activism: Advice to Boards
- Technology Transactions
- Trade Secrets
- Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
- Workplace and Employment Counseling
To see all of the Goodwin lawyer and practice rankings, visit The Legal 500 US 2025.