2019 MCCA Rainmakers
MCCA’s Annual List of Rainmakers proves that the profession has talented diverse attorneys who also have valuable client development skills. MCCA honors attorneys from across the nation who have achieved success through innovative, consistent and proactive business development. Their success stories offer insight and value to attorneys at every career stage.
MCCA is proud to announce its 2019 Rainmakers: 11 exceptional diverse attorneys whose business acumen, passion and dedication to proactive client development has set them apart as leaders in the legal profession. MCCA congratulates the 2019 Rainmakers and celebrates the diversity of their race and ethnicities, gender, sexual orientation, and generational differences, as well as the diversity in their practice areas and career paths. The 2019 Rainmakers were selected from an exceptional group of prominent attorneys who have a proven record, over the course of several years, of compiling books of business exceeding $5 million annually and who have contributed significantly to their communities.
The 2019 MCCA Rainmakers were honored at our Global TEC (G-TEC) Forum luncheon in San Francisco on April 5, 2019, and were featured in the Summer 2019 issue of Diversity & the Bar® magazine.
Elena Baca
Partner,
Paul Hastings LLP
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Years Practicing: 22
Practice Area: Employment Law
Neel Chatterjee
Partner,
Goodwin Procter LLP
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Years Practicing: 25
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Michael Chu
Partner,
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Location: Chicago, IL
Years Practicing: 27
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Dan Clivner
Managing Partner – Los Angeles,
Sidley Austin LLP
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Years Practicing: 31
Practice Area: Mergers & Acquisitions
Vincent H. Cohen, Jr.
Partner,
Dechert LLP
Location: Washington, DC
Years Practicing: 14
Practice Area: Litigation
Stephen Korniczky
Partner,
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Location: San Diego, CA
Years Practicing: 32
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Lorraine McGowen
Partner, Firmwide Diversity & Inclusion Co-Chair,
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Location: New York, NY
Years Practicing: 33
Practice Area: Restructuring
Raj Natarajan
Partner; Chair, Debt Finance Department,
McGuireWoods LLP
Location: Charlotte, NC
Years Practicing: 20
Practice Area: Debt Finance
Kimberly Parker
Partner,
WilmerHale
Location: Washington, DC
Years Practicing: 23
Practice Area: White Collar Criminal Defense & FCPA
Grace Speights
Partner and Leader of Morgan Lewis’s Global Labor & Employment Practice,
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Location: Washington, DC
Years Practicing: 38
Practice Area: Labor & Employment
Eric Wang
Partner; Co-Chair, Northern California Corporate and Finance Practice,
DLA Piper
Location: San Francisco, CA
Years Practicing: 24
Practice Area: Corporate and Finance