NEW YORK, BOSTON & LOS ANGELES, June 26, 2025 – Leading international law firm Proskauer is pleased to announce that four of its partners have been named to Forbes’ inaugural list of “America’s Best-In-State Lawyers,” a recognition designed to spotlight the finest attorneys in private practice from across all 50 states.
This year’s list features four partners located in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, including:
- Monica Arora (New York): Monica serves as co-head of Proskauer’s Private Funds Group, advising asset managers on the full spectrum of investment fund matters across a wide variety of strategies including buyout, credit, growth equity, venture, energy transition and real assets funds.
- Stephen Mears (Boston): Stephen is a partner in the Firm’s Private Funds Group and concentrates on private investment funds including venture capital, growth equity and buyout funds. He represents fund sponsors in all aspects of fund formation, operation and management.
- Jon Oram (New York): Jon is a partner in the Firm’s Sports Group and a former member of Proskauer’s Executive Committee. He advises clients on many of the complex, high-profile transactions that drive the sports industry, with a focus on the growing wave of global investment by private equity, private credit, venture capital, family offices and corporate investors across a broad range of sports-related assets.
- Bart Williams (Los Angeles): Bart serves as chair of Proskauer’s Litigation Department and head of its Los Angeles office. He is one of the nation’s most sought-after trial lawyers and commercial litigators and has served as lead counsel for numerous Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries in their most challenging and high-profile matters.
Selection for Forbes’ “America’s Best-In-State Lawyers” list is based on a multi-stage process of editorial research and analysis to identify the finest in the profession: lawyers with impressive track records in their specialties, leaders in their fields and attorneys most respected by peers and clients.
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