Keller and Heckman LLP secured multiple firm and individual rankings in the 2026 Chambers USA Guide, including notable recognition in Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation and Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory.

A longstanding Band 1 firm in Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation, Keller and Heckman’s Food and Drug practice continues to demonstrate its commitment to delivering high quality legal services across a broad range of regulated products. The practice advises clients on matters involving foods, alternative proteins, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, veterinary products, dietary supplements, cosmetics, and cannabis products, as well as the packaging associated with these products.

With more than sixty years of experience, the practice represents companies and trade associations before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and other federal and state agencies, and has a proven track record of successfully resolving challenges to marketed products.

Client feedback highlighted in the Chambers USA Guide underscores the practice’s reputation for excellence, noting the team’s ability to guide clients “through intricate challenges with clarity and precision” and describing the firm’s “level of depth and competency” as being “second to none.” The practice is comprised of attorneys working on both food ingredient and food packaging regulatory matters. The following partners received individual Chambers rankings for Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation: Devon Hill, Rick Mann, Eve Pelonis, Katie Bond, Mitzi Clark, Tony Pavel, and Rick Stearns.

Along with its inclusion in the Chambers USA Guide, Keller and Heckman’s Food and Drug practice garners rankings in the Chambers Europe Guide and Chambers Greater China Guide, demonstrating the firm’s global standing as a leader in the food, drug, and packaging law industries.

Keller and Heckman’s Advertising and Promotion practice also earned an inaugural firm ranking in Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory, with Partners Sheila Millar and Katie Bond receiving individual rankings in the same category. The practice advises clients across the full lifecycle of advertising and marketing—from campaign development and claim substantiation to regulatory compliance and enforcement defense. Chambers noted, “the team has extensive knowledge of the regulatory and legislative side, as well as a strong understanding of industry trends.” The practice regularly counsels on labeling, product safety considerations, and evolving regulatory expectations, while also representing clients in challenges brought by regulators, competitors, and self-regulatory bodies. This integrated approach enables clients to bring innovative campaigns to market while effectively managing legal and reputational risk.

For more than three decades, Chambers and Partners has recognized the legal profession’s highest levels of performance, identifying leading practices and attorneys through competitive rankings. The Chambers selection process is based on extensive research and in-depth client feedback, with rankings reflecting effectiveness, experience, achievements, and the value delivered to clients.

About Keller and Heckman

Keller and Heckman is an internationally renowned law firm with a broad practice in the areas of regulatory law, public policy, and litigation. From offices around the world, our attorneys represent global companies and trade associations servicing a range of industries, including advertising, food and food additives, tobacco and e-vapor, plastics, pesticides, industrial and specialty chemicals, consumer products, drugs and medical devices, transportation, and communications and technology. Keller and Heckman is a pioneer in the use of interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving with an in-house scientific staff that works closely with the attorneys on matters of technical complexity.

Keller and Heckman Partners Art Garrett and Manesh Rath have been named to the 2026 Super Lawyers list for Washington, DC, and Partner Sophie Castillo has been selected to the Northern California edition.

Washington, DC

Partner Art Garrett, also Keller and Heckman’s General Counsel, earned recognition for his work in Insurance Coverage. He primarily advises clients on insurance recovery, with a particular emphasis on the representation of food industry policyholders in and out of court. He is also a key member of the firm’s Litigation practice.

Partner Manesh Rath was recognized for his work in Employment and Labor, as well as Employment Litigation. He has successfully defended employers nationwide in wage and hour and class action litigation. His practice also encompasses a broad range of Occupational Safety and Health matters.

Northern California

Based in the firm’s San Francisco office, Partner Sophie Castillo earned this distinction for her work within the Environmental Litigation practice. She defends scientific and environmental law and toxic tort cases in both litigation and regulatory proceedings and handles complex, multi-party matters under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as well as contaminated property cases. She also plays an integral role in the firm’s California’s Proposition 65 practice.

Super Lawyers is a rating service that recognizes outstanding attorneys from more than 70 practice areas who have achieved a high degree of peer recognition and professional accomplishment. Selections are made through a patented, multiphase process that includes independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations. No more than five percent of attorneys in each state or region are selected annually.

About Keller and Heckman

Keller and Heckman is an internationally renowned law firm with a broad practice in the areas of regulatory law, public policy, and litigation. From offices around the world, our attorneys represent global companies and trade associations servicing a range of industries, including food and food additives, tobacco and e-vapor, plastics, pesticides, industrial and specialty chemicals, consumer products, drugs and medical devices, transportation, and communications and technology. Keller and Heckman is a pioneer in the use of interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving with an in-house scientific staff that works closely with the attorneys on matters of technical complexity.