Husch Blackwell Achieves Record Rankings in 2025 Edition of Chambers USA

Chambers USA recognized 124 Husch Blackwell attorneys in the 2025 guide released today, an increase of 37 ranked attorneys from 2024. In addition, 42 lawyers, who did not appear in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, earned rankings.

Chambers also ranked Husch Blackwell in 47 departments—a year-over-year increase of eight departments—spanning 22 of the firm’s practice areas with the firm’s Banking & Finance, Consumer Financial Services, and Psychedelics & Emerging Therapies practices earning national rankings for the first time.

The firm is recognized in:

Nationwide

• *Banking & Finance
• Cannabis Law
• *Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
• Government Contracts: Highly Regarded
• Healthcare: Highly Regarded
• Higher Education
• Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer
• International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions: Highly Regarded
• Product Liability: Toxic Torts
• Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
• *Psychedelics Law

Colorado

• Banking & Finance
• Labor & Employment
• Real Estate

Massachusetts

• Healthcare

Missouri

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• *Tax

Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds

• Corporate/M&A
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial

Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds

• Corporate/M&A
• Environment
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial
• Real Estate

Nebraska

• Corporate/Commercial
• *Litigation: General Commercial

Tennessee

• Real Estate

Texas

• Banking & Finance
• Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity)
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use

Texas: Austin & Surrounds

• Litigation: General Commercial

Wisconsin

• Banking & Finance
• *Construction
• Corporate/M&A
• *Healthcare
• *Insurance
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial
• Real Estate

Individual attorneys recognized by Chambers are:

Banking & Finance

• Steve Agee (Colorado) – Band 2
• Lute Barber (Texas) – Up and Coming
• Daniel Bray (Colorado) – Band 2
• *Steven Camp (Texas) – Band 5
• Reuben Rosof (Texas) – Band 5
• Lynda Templen (Wisconsin) – Band 3
• Nathan Volz (Wisconsin) – Band 3

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

• *Michael Brandess (Illinois) – Band 5
• *Buffey Klein (Texas) – Band 5

Cannabis Law: Western United States

• Hilary Bricken (Nationwide) – Band 1
• Marshall Custer (Nationwide) – Band 2
• Steve Levine (Nationwide) – Band 1

Construction

• *Joshua Levy (Wisconsin) – Band 1
• *Eric Meier (Wisconsin) – Band 2
• *Kenneth Slavens (Missouri) – Band 1

Corporate/Commercial

• David Gardels (Nebraska) – Band 1
• Victoria Sitz (Nebraska) – Band 1

Corporate/M&A

• *Ashley Edwards (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3
• *Christopher Hamlin (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3
• Phil Koutnik (Wisconsin) – Band 2
• *John Moore (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 3
• Kirstin Salzman (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 2
• Matthew Schneider (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 2
• Edward Wilson (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 2

E-Discovery & Information Governance

• Tessa Jacob (Nationwide) – Band 3

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

• David Eckhardt (Wisconsin) – Band 2
• *Molly Hobbs (Colorado) – Band 2
• Craig Kovarik (Missouri) – Band 1
• Mark Welker (Missouri) – Band 1

Energy & Natural Resources

• *Megan Caldwell (Colorado) – Band 2

Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)

• Linda Walsh (Nationwide) – Band 4

Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity)

• Carrie Collier-Brown (Texas) – Band 3
• Chris Reeder (Texas) – Band 3
• *Alaina Zermeno (Texas) – Up and Coming

Environment

• Christopher Erker (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 1
• *Jerry Ronecker (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3

Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)

• Marci Kawski (Nationwide) – Band 3
• *Susan Seaman (Nationwide) – Up and Coming

Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)

• John Redding (Nationwide) – Band 1

Government Contracts

• Hal Perloff (Nationwide) – Band 5
• Brian Waagner (Nationwide) – Band 4

Healthcare

• *Andrew Brenton (Wisconsin) – Up and Coming
• Diane Carter (Texas) – Band 2
• Curt Chase (Missouri) – Band 1
• *Ellee Cochran (Texas) – Band 5
• Michael Crowe (Texas) – Band 4
• Joseph Geraci (Texas) – Band 1
• Sarah Hellmann (Missouri) – Band 2
• David Hilgers (Texas) – Senior Statespeople
• *Alison Hollender (Texas) – Band 5
• Lorinda Holloway (Texas) – Band 5
• Hal Katz (Texas) – Band 1
• *Bryan Nowicki (Wisconsin) – Band 1
• *Meg Pekarske (Wisconsin) – Band 1
• *Sean Ryan (Massachusetts) – Band 4
• *Thomas Shorter (Wisconsin) – Band 1
• Christopher Smith (Missouri) – Band 2
• Harvey Tettlebaum (Missouri) – Band 2
• Cori Turner (Missouri) – Band 2

Higher Education

• Hayley Hanson (Nationwide) – Band 1
• *Julie Miceli (Nationwide) – Band 2
• Sean Tassi (Nationwide) – Band 2

Insurance

• Ashley DeVerna (Colorado) – Up and Coming
• *Jason Fathallah (Wisconsin) – Band 1
• *Amy Smith (Wisconsin) – Associates to watch

Insurance: Regulatory

• Lauren Ybarra (Texas) – Band 2

Intellectual Property

• *Jeffer Ali (Minnesota) – Band 4
• Michael Annis (Missouri) – Band 3
• Timothy Capria (Tennessee) – Band 2
• *Daniel Cohn (Missouri) – Band 3
• Jennifer Hoekel (Missouri) – Band 2
• Beau Jackson (Missouri) – Band 3
• Rudolph Telscher (Missouri) – Band 1

International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions

• *Grant Leach (Nationwide) – Band 5
• Cortney Morgan (Nationwide) – Band 4

International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337)

• Beau Jackson (Nationwide) – Band 5

International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy

• *Nithya Nagarajan (Nationwide) – Band 5

Labor & Employment

• Barbara Grandjean (Colorado) – Band 2
• Joe Glynias (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 2
• Ashley Jordaan (Colorado) – Band 3
• *Kevin Koronka (Texas) – Band 5
• *Trecia Moore (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 4
• *Sonni Nolan (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3
• Paul Pautler (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 3
• Kyle Russell (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 3
• Julianne Story (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 2
• Robert Tomaso (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Eminent Practitioners

Litigation: General Commercial

• *Taylor Concannon Hausmann (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Up and Coming
• Ryan DiClemente (New Jersey) – Band 4
• *Joseph Diedrich (Wisconsin) – Up and Coming
• Marnie Jensen (Nebraska) – Band 2
• Ann Maher (Wisconsin) – Band 3
• James Monafo (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3
• Jeffrey Simon (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 4

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• *Cormac Connor (District of Columbia) – Band 6
• Catherine Hanaway (Missouri) – Band 2
• *Jonathan Porter (Georgia) – Band 3
• *Kip Randall (Missouri) – Up and Coming
• Jody Rudman (Texas) – Band 3

Natural Resources & Environment

• Brian Potts (Wisconsin) – Band 2
• David Zoppo (Wisconsin) – Band 3

Political Law

• Kyle Gilster (Nationwide) – Band 4

Privacy & Data Security: Privacy

• David Stauss (Nationwide) – Band 4

Product Liability: Toxic Torts

• Jennifer Dlugosz (Nationwide) – Band 1
• Jennifer Lee (Nationwide) – Band 1
• J.Y. Miller (Nationwide) – Band 1

Psychedelics Law

• *Kimberly Chew (Nationwide) – Band 1
• *Karen Luong (Nationwide) – Band 1

Public Finance

• *Ericka Curls-Bartling (California) – Band 2
• *Lynda Templen (Wisconsin) – Band 1

Real Estate

• *Rodney Carter (Wisconsin) – Band 4
• *Andrew Crossett (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3
• Bradley Dallet (Wisconsin) – Band 4
• Ron Feldman (Tennessee) – Band 3
• Courtney Hill (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3
• Andrew Hodgson (Tennessee) – Band 4
• William Hof (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3
• David Linenbroker (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 1
• Rebecca Mitich (Wisconsin) – Band 2
• Charles Renner (Missouri: Kansas City & Surrounds) – Band 2
• David Richardson (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 1
• Gregory Smith (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Senior Statespeople
• Melissa Smith-Groff (Missouri: St. Louis & Surrounds) – Band 3

Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use

• Nikelle Susanne Meade (Texas) – Band 2

Tax

• Jason Reschly (Missouri) – Band 1

Transportation: Road (Carriage/Logistics)

• *Julie Maurer (Nationwide) – Band 2

Chambers and Partners, which publishes Chambers USA, develops its ranking by utilizing a team of over 200 research analysts who assess lawyers and law firms across the USA, conducting thousands of one-on-one interviews per year with in-house counsel and third-party experts. The team identifies and ranks the world’s best lawyers and legal departments according to the criteria most valued by clients: commercial awareness, cross-border capabilities, value and delivery to budget, and client service.