The Legal 500: Litigation (v. III)
 , a world-wide legal reference guide, has ranked Simpson Thacher litigators as leading practitioners in their fields. Based on extensive research surveying corporate counsel and law firm clients throughout the country, editors at The Legal 500 distinguished fifteen Simpson Thacher partners in five separate litigation practice areas: 
 Antitrust 
Ken Logan, Kevin Arquit, Joseph Tringali 
 Insurance and Reinsurance
  
Barry Ostrager, Mary Kay Vyskocil 
 International Arbitration 
John Kerr, Robert Smit 
 Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense 
David Ichel, Joseph McLaughlin, Roy Reardon 
 Securities: Shareholder Litigation 
Bruce Angiolillo, Michael Chepiga, Peter Kazanoff, James Kreissman, George Newcombe
 Based on the research, the Firm's Litigation Department Head, Barry R. Ostrager, was also named one of the "Top Ten Trial Litigators" in the country.