Law360 Honors Dechert Duo as MVPs of the Year

Dechert LLP partners Brenda Sharton and Jonathan Streeter have been selected as MVPs of the Year for 2024 by leading legal publication Law360.

Each year, the publication names just a handful of lawyers per practice area across a range of legal disciplines. Those selected as MVPs are judged to have achieved the biggest wins or made the most significant contributions to their practice areas in the past year.

Brenda Sharton, global chair of Dechert's top-ranked Cyber, Privacy and AI practice, was named an MVP for Cybersecurity & Privacy. Ms. Sharton, a first chair trial lawyer and internationally recognized thought leader and pioneer in privacy and cybersecurity law, provides data breach response and defense of government regulatory matters and class action litigation to multi-billion-dollar global companies in what are frequently cutting-edge and precedent-setting matters. Since the late 1990s, she has quarterbacked over 1,500 data breach investigations and remains a thought leader on enhanced cyber and AI techniques related to the exponential increase in cyberattacks by threat actors of all types. She was previously named a Law360 MVP of the Year in 2022.

Jonathan Streeter, co-chair of Dechert's global litigation practice, was named an MVP for White Collar. Across a career at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and subsequently at Dechert, Mr. Streeter has tried 19 federal jury trials and two bench trials. He also has significant appellate experience, having successfully briefed and argued 16 appeals before the Second Circuit. He focuses on government investigations and enforcement actions, securities litigation matters, trial practice, complex business disputes, internal investigations, and a broad range of civil litigation.

Profiles of this year's MVPs will be published by Law360 in the coming weeks.

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