Four Goodwin Partners Named to Forbes’ 2026 Top 250 Lawyers in America List
Forbes has named Goodwin lawyers Elaine Blais, David Cross, Sabrina Rose-Smith, and Joshua Zachariah to its third annual Top 250 Lawyers in America list, which spotlights “the nation’s finest attorneys in private practice.” Honorees were chosen through a rigorous, multi-stage process of researching, evaluating, and rating thousands of candidates through nominations, direct outreach, recommendations, and editorial reviews.
Elaine, partner and Intellectual Property Litigation co-chair, is one of the nation’s foremost life sciences patent trial lawyers. With more than 30 years of experience, she has worked with clients to advance their business interests by implementing sophisticated strategies with respect to patent and related disputes and has delivered landmark wins for clients such as Teva Pharmaceuticals International, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, and Prime Medicines.
David is a partner in Goodwin’s Antitrust and Competition practice and a member of the firm’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice. A first-chair trial lawyer, he represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex antitrust and commercial litigation, including bet-the-company matters. This marks David’s second consecutive year on Forbes’ Top 250 Lawyers in America list. He has also been recognized on Forbes’ 2025 America’s Best-In-State Lawyers list and 2024 Top 200 Lawyers in America list.
Sabrina is a partner in Goodwin’s Financial Services Litigation and Consumer Financial Services Litigation practices. Her nationwide practice includes both defending financial institutions against consumer class actions and government enforcement actions and providing regulatory compliance and litigation risk counseling to banks, credit card issuers, mortgage lenders, and specialty and small-dollar fintech companies. Sabrina was also named to Forbes’ Top 200 Lawyers in America’s list for 2024.
Joshua is a partner in the firm’s Public M&A/Corporate Governance practice and chair of Goodwin’s Global M&A Group. He represents public and private acquirers and target companies in domestic and cross-border acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and other corporate matters across industries. His recent work includes advising Roku on its $22 billion acquisition by Fox Corporation, Qualtrics on its $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta and its acquisition by Silver Lake in partnership with Canada’s largest pension fund, and Olo on its $2 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo. Separately, Joshua advised Thoma Bravo on its $4 billion acquisition of Accelerant. This marks Joshua’s second consecutive year on Forbes’ Top 250 Lawyers in America list.
To see the full list, visit Forbes Top 250 Lawyers in America 2026.