The following firms were represented in the pool of candidates for a 40 Under 40 Honor:
- agencyIP
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
- Alejandro Oliveras, Chapter 13 Trustee
- AlixPartners, LLP
- Allen & Overy LLP
- Allen Barnes & Jones PLC
- Alston & Bird LLP
- Alvarez & Marsal Securities, Inc.
- Ankura
- Archer & Greiner PC
- Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
- Arnold Scott Harris, P.C.
- Arnstein & Lehr LLP
- ASK LLP
- Askew & Mazel, LLC
- AST
- B.E. Capital Management
- Baker Botts LLP
- BakerHostetler LLP
- Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
- Ballard Law Office, LLC
- Ballard Spahr LLP
- Appellate Panel of the 10th Circuit Office
- Bankruptcy Management Solutions (BMS)
- Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Bayard, P.A.
- BDO USA LLP
- Berger Singerman
- Berkeley Research Group, LLC
- Bernstein-Burkley
- Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A.
- Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP
- Blackhill Partners, LLC
- Blank Rome LLP
- Boleman Law Firm, P.C.
- Brown Rudnick LLP
- Bryan Cave LLP
- Buchalter
- Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Burr & Forman
- Bush Ross, P.A.
- Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
- Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
- Calderone Advisory Group, LLC
- Campbell Law Firm
- Cantor Fitzgerald
- Carles Cuesta Abogados
- CBA Studio Legale e Tributario
- CBIZ Corporate Recovery Services
- City of Chicago, Department of Law
- Clark Hill PLC
- Clark Partington
- Cole & Cole Law, PA
- Cole Schotz PC
- Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the AG
- Conway MacKenzie, Inc.
- Cooley LLP
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
- Cullen and Dykman LLP
- Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
- Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Debra L. Miller, Chapter 13 Trustee
- DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, P.C.
- Deloitte
- Dentons US LLP
- Development Specialists, Inc.
- Dickinson Wright PLLC
- DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Doling Shaw & Hanover, APC
- Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Drummond Woodsum
- EisnerAmper
- Elliott Greenleaf, P.C.
- Epiq
- Equity Partners HG
- Estes Law
- Estrella, LLC
- FactorLaw
- Farrell Fritz, P.C.
- Foley & Lardner LLP
- Fox Rothschild LLP
- Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato, L.C.
- Freedom Law, PC
- Freeborn & Peters LLP
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- FTI Consulting
- Furr Cohen
- Genovese Joblove & Battista, P.A.
- GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group LLC
- Gold Lange & Majoros, P.C.
- Goldstein & McClintock LLLP
- Goodwin Procter LLP
- Goosmann Law Firm, PLC
- Grant Thornton LLP
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP
- Grobstein Teeple LLP
- GSO Capital Partners
- Guggenheim Partners Investment Management
- Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC
- Henderson Franklin Starnes & Holt, P.A.
- Hilco Merchant Resources, LLC
- Hirschler Fleischer, P.C.
- HolmstromKennedyPC
- Hoover Penrod, PLC
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Jackson Walker LLP
- Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C.
- Jen Lee Law
- Jenner & Block LLP
- Jennis Law Firm
- Jones Walker LLP
- KapilaMukamal, LLP
- Kasen & Kasen, P.C.
- Kass Shuler, PA
- King & Spalding LLP
- Kirby Aisner & Curley LLP
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP
- K&L Gates LLP
- Kobre & Kim LLP
- Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O.
- Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, LLP
- Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
- Lakelaw
- Landis Rath & Cobb LLP
- Latham, Shuker, Eden & Beaudine, LLP
- Law Office of Camron Hoorfar
- Law Office of Mark J. Giunta
- Law Offices of Michael Jay Berger
- Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill L.L.P.
- Lindquist & Vennum
- Linowes and Blocher LLP
- Loeb & Loeb LLP
- Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard
- Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP
- Marco | Wimmer PLLC
- Marcus | Clegg
- Markham Law Firm, LLC
- Markus Williams Young & Zimmermann LLC
- Mattingly Burke Cohen & Biederman LLP
- May, Potenza, Baran & Gillespie, PC
- McCarthy, Reynolds, & Penn, LLC
- McConell Valdes LLC
- McGuireWoods LLP
- Meru, LLC
- Messana, PA
- Michael D. O'Brien & Assoc., P.C.
- Middlebrooks Shapiro, P.C.
- Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo
- Moore & Van Allen, PLLC
- Morris James LLP
- Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP
- MorrisAnderson
- Motschenbacher & Blattner LLP
- Murray Analytics, Inc.
- Murray, Plumb & Murray
- Nebraska Department of Revenue
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
- Nexsen Pruet, PLLC
- Nicholson Herrick LLP
- O'Melveny & Myers LLP
- Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C.
- Okin Adams LLP
- OlsenDaines, P.C.
- Owl Creek Asset Management
- Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
- Page Law, PLLC
- Palmeiro Law Group LLC
- Parker & Associates
- Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
- Perkins Coie LLP
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Polsinelli PC
- Prime Clerk
- Proskauer Rose LLP
- Province, Inc.
- Rao & Pierce, PLLC
- Reid Collins & Tsai LLP
- Reorg Research, Inc.
- Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.
- Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti, LLP
- Rivercity Marketing
- Ropes & Gray LLP
- Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
- Scheer Law Group, LLP
- Schneiderman and Sherman, P.C.
- Shaw Fishman Glantz & Towbin LLC
- Sherwood Partners, Inc.
- Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP
- Shraiberg, Landau & Page, P.A.
- Shutts & Bowen LLP
- Sidley Austin LLP
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Smiley Wang-Ekvall, LLP
- Soeli Consulting
- Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- SSG Capital Advisors
- Stichter Riedel Blain & Postler, P.A.
- Stinson LLP
- Stretto
- Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
- Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer LLP
- The Law Offices of Jason A. Burgess, LLC
- The Tracy Law Group PLLC
- The University of Chicago Law School
- the525group, LLC
- Thompson, O'Brien, Kemp & Nasuti, P.C.
- Tiger Eye PI
- Togut, Segal & Segal LLP
- Trenam Law
- Troutman Sanders LLP
- Trunkett & Trunkett PC
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, D. of Delaware
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, N.D. of Georgia
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Missouri
- U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for U.S. Trustees
- U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- U.S. DOJ, EOUST
- Univ. of California, Hastings College of Law
- Univ. of Kentucky College of Law
- Univ. of Missouri Law School
- UpShot Services
- Walker & Patterson, P.C.
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- White & Case LLP
- Whiteford Taylor Preston, LLP
- WilmerHale LLP
- Wolcott Rivers Gates
- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP
- Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP
- Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP