Alston & Bird is honored to be recognized in eight practice areas in the 2026 edition of The Legal 500 United States.
The rankings include:
- Antitrust: Civil litigation/Class actions: Defense
- Antitrust: Merger control
- Environment: Litigation
- Finance: Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Finance: Commercial lending: Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Finance: Structured finance: Securitization
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber law
In addition, seven Alston & Bird attorneys have been ranked:
- Meaghan Boyd: Leading Partner in Environment Litigation
- Cynthia Cole: Leading Partner in Technology Transactions
- Jeffrey Dintzer: Leading Partner in Environment Litigation
- Michael Elkin: Hall of Fame in Intellectual Property: Copyright
- Jennifer Golinveaux: Leading Partner in Intellectual Property: Copyright
- Kim Peretti: Leading Partner in Cyber Law
- Olivia Weber: Leading Associate in M&A: middle-market ($250-$500m)
Founded in 1987, Legal 500 is now a data-driven, AI-optimized research platform that benchmarks, informs, and connects providers and users of legal services in 100+ countries. Every year, Legal 500’s team of more than 150 researchers, technologists, data analysts, journalists, and content specialists collate and review 60,000+ data submissions from law firms and conduct interviews with thousands of leading law firm partners to determine the rankings.