Shook Partners Named 2025 Top JD Supra Authors

For the fourth consecutive year, JD Supra has named three Shook partners as Top Authors for the 2025 JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards in the Food & Beverage category. Partners Katie Gates Calderon, Lindsey Heinz and James Muehlberger were named for their work in Shook’s Food and Beverage Litigation and Regulatory Update newsletter. JD Supra also named Shook the Top Food & Beverage Firm for a fifth year. 

Each year, the Readers’ Choice Awards recognize top authors and firms who were read by C-suite executives, in-house counsel, media and other professionals across the JD Supra platform. This year the awards highlight those authors and firms for their visibility and engagement across 33 industry topics. 

Gates Calderon is the co-chair of Shook’s Product Liability Litigation Practice Group and focuses her practice on the defense of corporations in individual and complex tort matters. In addition to her active litigation practice, Gates Calderon counsels food, beverage and pet food companies on matters governed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

As co-chair of Shook’s Food, Beverage & Agribusiness Practice Group, Heinz regularly advises on regulatory compliance, enforcement and policy matters involving FDA-regulated products. Heinz has worked on a variety of FDA related matters including label reviews and updates, product recalls and market corrections.

Muehlberger co-chairs the firm’s Food, Beverage & Agribusiness Practice Group with Heinz and is also the founding co-chair of Shook’s Class Action Practice Group. He has been the leader of numerous litigation teams and has represented a wide variety of food & beverage clients.