Clark Hill Attorneys Recognized by Chambers USA for 2026 Edition

Chambers USA has named 31 Clark Hill attorneys “Leaders in their Field” in the 2026 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Chambers, a world-renowned organization, identifies and ranks the most outstanding law firms and lawyers based on peer and client reviews.

Law firms and individual lawyers are ranked in bands from 1-6, with 1 being the best. The qualities on which rankings are assessed include technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by the client.

Congratulations to the following attorneys:

• Daniel Bretz – Bretz is ranked as a Senior Statesperson for Labor & Employment (Michigan). He represents major private employers in various aspects of labor and employment law.
• Mary Rose Brusewitz – Brusewitz is ranked Band 2 for Impact Investing (Nationwide). She concentrates her practice on international transactions involving Latin America, Africa, Asia, India, Europe and the U.S.
• Stephen Campbell– Campbell is ranked in Band 2 for Energy & Natural Resources (Michigan). He assists municipal, industrial, and commercial clients in regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters involving federal, state, and local energy and environmental laws and regulations.
• Nicholas Centrella – Centrella is ranked Band 1 for Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds). He represents corporations, law firms, religious organizations, and hospitals in litigation matters.
• David Cessante– Cessante is ranked Band 4 for Labor & Employment (Michigan). He represents and counsels employers in the automotive, hospitality, retail, insurance, and transportation industries on all employment-related matters before administrative bodies and federal and state courts.
• Scott Clark – Clark is ranked in Band 3 for Environment (Colorado). Clark represents clients on a wide range of environmental and natural resources issues, including CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, NEPA and ESA matters, Brownfields, remediation, hazardous waste, real estate transactions, litigation, permitting, petroleum storage tanks, regulatory compliance, enforcement proceedings and regulatory rule making proceedings.
• Jeff Conn – Conn is ranked in Band 1 for Banking & Finance (Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh & Surrounds). He counsels lenders, borrowers, private equity groups, corporations, and real estate owners and developers in syndicated and bilateral commercial and real estate credit facilities, mergers and acquisitions, and matters involving general corporate, real estate, and financial advice.
• Lorie Dakessian– Dakessian is ranked Band 4 for Higher Education (Nationwide). She represents clients in campus disciplines, Title IX litigation, white-collar and internal investigations, and legal and medical malpractice matters.
• Damon Dunn – Dunn is ranked Band 2 for Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois). He addresses sophisticated and newsworthy questions of first impression. On behalf of his clients, he has been successful in more than 50 appeals, including arguments before the Illinois State Supreme Court on First Amendment rights and Delaware Supreme Court on merger laws.
• Maria Dwyer– Dwyer is ranked Band 4 for Labor & Employment (Michigan). She is a seasoned litigator and trusted advisor to senior leadership, representing employers in complex employment and business disputes. She provides strategic counsel on critical workplace issues, conducts high‑stakes internal investigations, and serves as a certified Title IX Hearing Officer.
• Patricia Hamill – Hamill is ranked Band 2 for Higher Education (Nationwide) and Band 2 for Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds). She represents college students, faculty members, and administrators in campus disciplinary proceedings and in litigation following flawed disciplinary processes. She also has decades of experience in complex litigation, bringing a strategic approach to every matter.
• Edward Hammond – Hammond is ranked Band 4 for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Michigan). He works in tandem with many of the firm practice groups in order to help their clients navigate the many hazards that accompany benefits offered through the workplace.
• Meg Hobbins – Hobbins is ranked in Band 3 for Immigration (District of Columbia). She is nationally recognized for her success in challenging INTERPOL Red Notices and restoring U.S. travel privileges for individuals whose visas have been delayed, revoked, or denied—often due to politically motivated allegations or erroneous derogatory information.
• Myriah Jaworski– Jaworski is ranked in Band 5 for Privacy & Data Security: Privacy (Nationwide). She defends clients in nationwide privacy and data breach class action litigation, regulatory investigations, and bet-the-business technology disputes and has also achieved first-of-its-kind results for clients in wire transfer fraud, cyber bullying, and right to publicity matters.
• Kevin Kent – Kent is ranked Band 3 for Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds). He counsels a broad spectrum of industries, including water and public infrastructure, real estate development, life sciences, financial services, casino gaming, education, gaming and government.
• David Lansky – Lansky is ranked Band 1 for Real Estate (Arizona). He represents buyers, sellers, investors, and lenders in a wide variety of complex commercial transactions.
• Patrick Larkin – Larkin is ranked Band 4 for Environment (Texas). He helps clients to monetize, mitigate, and manage environmental liabilities and obligations.
• Christopher McMican – McMican is ranked Band 2 for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Michigan). He focuses on assisting and advising employers with such issues as compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), retirement plans, health and welfare plans, executive compensation, fiduciary matters, phantom and equity plans, stock options, and all elements of the compensation package as well as corporate matters.
• Daniel Minkus – Minkus is ranked Band 2 for Corporate/M&A (Michigan). He advises clients with mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions, as well as business planning, joint ventures, governance, supply chain agreements, and various other contracts.
• Michael Moberly – Moberly is ranked Band 1 for Labor & Employment (Arizona). He assists employers in the technology, banking, mining, and transportation industries, among others, in civil rights and employment-related administrative proceedings, arbitrations, and litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.
• Kevin Morse – Morse is ranked in Band 4 for Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois). He supports businesses and their owners in a variety of industries afflicted with financial distress through out-of-court restructuring, bankruptcy, and litigation.
• Mark Nowak – Nowak is ranked Band 2 for Construction (Pennsylvania). He represents owners, contractors, architects and engineers, public agencies, and insurers in public, private, commercial, industrial and institutional construction projects.
• Nathan Niemuth – Niemuth is ranked a Senior Statesperson for Labor & Employment (Arizona). He advises employers with respect to issues arising under a broad range of federal and state laws, including equal employment opportunity laws, labor relations laws, right to work laws, wage and hour laws, and plant-closing laws.
• Michael Nowlan – Nowlan is ranked Band 1 for Immigration (Michigan) and Band 2 for Immigration (Nationwide). He represents companies and individuals as they navigate the complex U.S. immigration system from the initial transfer/move to the U.S. to U.S. citizenship.
• Michael Pattwell– Pattwell is ranked Band 3 for Energy & Natural Resources (Michigan). He manages high-stakes litigation and resolves complex regulatory and transactional impasses in environmental, energy and political law matters.
• Robert Ridge – Ridge is ranked Band 4 for Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania). He focuses his practice in the areas of white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations.
• Craig Russell – Russell is ranked in Band 2 for Banking & Finance (Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh & Surrounds). Russell routinely represents institutional lenders, mezzanine funds, and borrowers in bilateral and syndicated commercial finance transactions consisting of working capital and acquisition financings).
• Tobias Smith – Smith is ranked Band 4 for Environment (Texas). He represents clients in environmental matters, with an emphasis on compliance counseling and litigation in state and federal courts.
• Sheryl Sweeney – Sweeney is ranked Band 1 in Environment: Water Rights (Arizona). She represents public and private energy interests in environmental, energy, and water law matters.
• Thomas Ragland – Ragland is ranked Band 2 for Immigration (District of Columbia) and Band 2 for Immigration (Nationwide). He supports individual and corporate clients in a broad range of immigration matters, including federal court litigation, defense against removal, complex asylum claims, naturalization and citizenship matters, consular processing, challenges to INTERPOL Red Notices, and contesting terrorism- and security-related bars to admission.
• Anne-Marie Vercruysse Welch – Vercruysse Welch is ranked Band 2 for Labor & Employment (Michigan). She defends employers in lawsuits and administrative proceedings against wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and related statutory and tort claims.

In addition, Clark Hill has achieved the following department rankings by Chambers:

• Banking & Finance (Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh & Surrounds) – Band 1
• Cannabis Law (Nationwide) – Band 3
• Corporate/M&A (Michigan) – Band 4
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Michigan) – Band 3
• Energy & Natural Resources (Michigan) – Band 2
• Environment (Texas) – Band 4
• Environment: Water Rights (Arizona) – Band 2
• Higher Education (Nationwide) – Band 4
• Immigration (District of Columbia) – Band 3
• Immigration (Michigan) – Band 2
• Immigration (Nationwide) – Band 4
• Labor & Employment (Arizona) – Band 3
• Labor & Employment (Michigan) – Band 2
• Litigation: General Commercial (Michigan) – Band 4
• Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds) – Band 2
• Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded (Nationwide) – Band 3
• Real Estate (Arizona) – Band 3
• Real Estate (Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh & Surrounds) – Band 2