Name partner Gary Lincenberg is one of three finalists for Attorney of the Year at the 2025 California Legal Awards.
Mr. Lincenberg is being recognized for his historic and monumental victory in USA v. Michael Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain, a criminal fraud prosecution relating to Hewlett Packard’s $11 billion purchase of British software company Autonomy. Prosecutors called the case “California’s largest criminal fraud trial ever.”
In June 2024, following a decade-long, cross-border battle, and three-month jury trial, Mr. Lincenberg and his team won an acquittal on all counts for Mr. Chamberlain. The case was watched closely, with extensive coverage in major publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, and Law360. The landmark win was honored as the Most Important Court Case of the Year at the 10th Annual Global Investigations Review Awards held in Washington, D.C., and as Benchmark Litigation’s United States Impact Case of the Year. Benchmark named Mr. Lincenberg a finalist for Litigator of the Year, AmLaw named him National Litigator of the Week, and the Daily Journal named him the Top White Collar Lawyer. For more than a decade, Chambers USA has ranked Mr. Lincenberg Band 1 in “Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations.”
The winner will be announced at the California Legal Awards on June 25, 2025 in Los Angeles.
View the complete list of finalists here.
Click here to read Mr. Lincenberg’s article and tribute to Stephen Chamberlain, “Eulogy of an Acquittal: ‘I am an Innocent Man,’” on Chambers Global Guide.
