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Thompson Coburn announced today that Chambers USA has named 11 practices and 31 lawyers among its 2025 list of leading lawyers for business in the United States.

The firm’s nationally ranked higher education practice continues to be a trusted resource for legal counsel and representation in its sector, and the firm’s energy team also is again ranked nationally, along with multiple individual attorneys in that practice. Newly ranked individuals for 2025 include Tonya Oliver Rose for Missouri healthcare law, and in Missouri product liability, Booker Shaw, who earned a Band 1 ranking, and Carl Pesce.

Each year since 1990, firms have been ranked across a number of categories and evaluated by Chambers researchers and peer review. The research methodology includes in-depth, objective market research including client interviews and market data, covering criteria such as technical legal ability, client service, professional conduct, and other key qualities for top-tier rankings.

Thompson Coburn’s complete rankings include:

National

• Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
• Higher Education

Illinois

• Environmental
• Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use

Missouri

• Corporate/M&A
• Environmental (Band 1)
• Health Care
• Intellectual Property
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation: General Commercial
• Real Estate

Beyond the practice rankings, 31 of the firm’s lawyers received individual designations:

• Hope Abramov (Missouri Labor & Employment)
• Jonathan Benner (National Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory)
• Tina Bird (Illinois Construction)
• Eric Boyd (Illinois Environmental: Litigation)
• Edward Cohen (Missouri Environmental)
• Adrienne Clair (National Energy: Electricity – Regulatory & Litigation, Band 1)
• Matt Darrough (Missouri Insurance)
• Jim Dillon (Missouri Real Estate)
• Clifford Godiner (Missouri Labor & Employment)
• Evan Goldfarb (Missouri Health Care, Band 1)
• Jesse Halpern (National Energy: Electricity – Regulatory & Litigation)
• Joy Harris Hennessy (Missouri Health Care)
• Nicole Jobe (Missouri Health Care)
• Laura Jordan (Missouri Labor & Employment)
• Ryan Russell Kemper (Missouri Environmental)
• Crystal Kennedy (Missouri Environmental, Band 1)
• John Kingston (Missouri Litigation: General Commercial)
• Aaron Lacey (National Higher Education)
• Thomas Litz (Missouri Corporate/M&A, Band 1)
• Krissa Lubben (Missouri Labor & Employment)
• Katriina McGuire (Illinois Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use)
• Margaret McNaul (National Energy: Electricity – Regulatory & Litigation)
• Gayle Mercier (Missouri Real Estate)
• Alan Norman (Missouri Intellectual Property)
• Carl Pesce (Missouri Litigation: Product Liability)
• Thomas Polcyn (Missouri Intellectual Property, Band 1)
• Tonya Oliver Rose (Missouri Health Care)
• Booker Shaw (Missouri Litigation: Product Liability, Band 1)
• Rebecca Shelton (National Energy: Electricity – Regulatory & Litigation)
• Peter Strassner (Missouri Environmental, Band 1)
• Roman Wuller (Missouri Litigation: General Commercial)

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