Best Lawyers® has recognized partners Jenna Dabbs, Julie Fink, Sean Hecker, and Roberta Kaplan in the 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for outstanding professional excellence, and partners Shawn Crowley, Kate Doniger, Raymond Tolentino, and counsel Brandon Trice in the 2024 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards are recognitions given to attorneys who are earlier in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in America.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers® recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review® evaluation. More than 123,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and they have received more than 20 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world.

Kaplan Hecker & Fink attorneys were recognized in the following categories:

The Best Lawyers in America®

For the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 13.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 76,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 30th edition.

  • New York, NY
    • Jenna M. Dabbs 
      • Criminal Defense: White-Collar
      • Litigation - Securities
    • Julie E. Fink
      • Commercial Litigation
    • Sean Hecker
      • Criminal Defense: General Practice
      • Criminal Defense: White-Collar
    • Roberta A. Kaplan
      • Civil Rights Law
      • Litigation - Labor and Employment

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America

For the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, more than 2.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 25,000 lawyers honored in the new edition.

  • New York, NY
    • Shawn Crowley
      • Litigation - Securities
      • Securities Regulation
    • Kate L. Doniger
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Criminal Defense: White-Collar
      • Litigation - Securities
    • Raymond Tolentino
      • Appellate Practice
    • D. Brandon Trice
      • Commercial Litigation

Lawyers are not required nor allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers® is considered a singular honor. A description of the selection methodology is available here.

Read more about the firm’s recognition here.