Watstein Terepka Earns Several Band One Chambers USA Rankings in 2026 Guide
ATLANTA, GA (June 19, 2026) — In its 2026 guide, Chambers USA again ranked Watstein Terepka LLP and three of its lawyers among the country’s leading class action practitioners. The recognition tracks the record: the work earns the ranking, not the other way around.
In the 2026 edition of Chambers USA, Watstein Terepka earned a Band 1 ranking for its class action defense work. Multiple Watstein Terepka individual lawyers earned rankings as well:
- Founding Partner Ryan Watstein was recognized as a Star Individual, Chambers’ highest category of individual recognition.
- Founding Partner Alexander Terepka received a Band 1 ranking.
- Partner Matthew Keilson was recognized as Up and Coming.
The rankings come as the firm expands its national practice in consumer class action, mass arbitration, and commercial litigation. Since last year’s guide, Watstein Terepka has opened a Los Angeles office and will soon open one in San Francisco, where it has added two lawyers. This is not growth for growth’s sake. Each move follows the work and the chance to add lawyers who share the firm’s standards and vision.
The growth has not diluted the quality of the Firm’s results; it has enhanced them. Over the past year, the firm’s lawyers have brought the total number of class actions they have defended to roughly 700 across more than 30 jurisdictions, including most of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and in briefing before the U.S. Supreme Court. They have won at trial, on dispositive motions, and at class certification. They have secured several precedential rulings over the same period, including multiple published appellate decisions that have helped shape developing law. The firm has become even more well known for one thing in particular: exposing abusive and fraudulent litigation.
Watstein Terepka thanks the clients, colleagues, and peers who spoke with Chambers during its research. Their candor is what makes the recognition mean anything. The firm also thanks its lawyers and staff, whose work is the reason any of this exists.
See Watstein Terepka’s 2026 Chambers ranking on the publication’s website.
Chambers is widely regarded as one of the legal industry’s most respected directories. Its rankings are based on extensive independent research, including interviews with clients, lawyers, and industry participants, as well as an evaluation of a firm’s work, experience, and reputation within the market.
About Watstein Terepka LLP
Watstein Terepka is a national litigation boutique built for clients who need elite writing, advocacy, and strategies that do not come from the standard playbook. The firm represents public and private companies, private-equity portfolio companies, and individuals in nationwide class actions, mass arbitrations, complex commercial litigation, appeals, and compliance matters across the country. Our lawyers represent clients in matters where judgment, creativity, intensity, and results matter more than convention.