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500William McLucas WilmerHale (Washington, dc) The absolute leader incomplex internal investigations, McLucas has handled recent internal reviews forthe boards of Best Buy, Nortel Networks, JPMorgan and UnitedHealth Group.John Mead Sullivan & Cromwell (New York) A quiet power behind the long,illustrious and remarkable pairing of Goldman Sachs with Sullivan & Cromwell,he’s also a go-to corporate lawyer for Madison Square Garden and CIT Group.Mark Mendelsohn Paul Weiss (Washington, dc) The nation’s leadingForeign Corrupt Practices Act lawyer and former Justice Department deputy chiefshowed what he can do in private practice by successfully representing a large humanitarian-assistancenonprofit in an FCPA investigation ending in a declination letter.Ronald Mercaldo Mercaldo Law Firm (Tucson) His firm added to its excellenttrack record for plaintiffs, netting a trio of multimillion-dollar settlements incases involving catastrophic injury and medical malpractice.Lee Meyerson Simpson Thacher (New York) Meyerson has almost too manymulti-billion-dollar deals to keep track of, an example being Petrohawk Energy’s$15.1B acquisition by BHP Billiton.Andrew Michaelson Boies Schiller (New York) This young gun from theSEC will do wonders in private practice after his key role in the government’sinside-trading probes and work as a special assistant U.S. attorney in the RajRajaratnam case.Harvey Miller Weil Gotshal (New York) Who else would the last of the bigairlines call? Miller is at the controls for AMR Corp.’s multifaceted bankruptcy.Ted Mirvis Wachtell Lipton (New York) Bank of America made the obviouscall in tapping this litigation legend to defend the bank’s $8.5B mortgage bondsettlement.Steven Molo MoloLamken (New York) Molo continues to score wins for clientscaught in complex cases while building one of the country’s most prestigiouslitigation boutiques with cutting-edge litigation like that on behalf of threeGroupon salesmen sued for going to work for Google.Thomas Moloney Cleary Gottlieb (New York) An outstanding litigator keptbusy in recent years by proceedings related to Lehman and Madoff, Moloney won adismissal of claims worth billions against client HSBC filed by the Madoff trustee.C. Barry Montgomery Williams Montgomery (Chicago) Always a mainstayamong top defense verdicts, Montgomery turned the tables to secure a $91Msettlement from Medline Industries in a qui tam lawsuit.Thomas Moore Kramer Dillof (New York) New York’s top plaintiff attorneyconvinced a Bronx jury to award $120 million to a woman who suffered brain damageafter three area hospitals committed medical malpractice.L A W D R A G O N 144 I s s u e 13 Photo by: Annie Tritt