Dentons partner Samuel Maizel has been selected as a 2023 Legal Visionary by the LA Times’ 2023 edition of its Business of Law magazine.Maizel was recognized as a 2023 Legal Visionary for his success and leadership related to Dentons’ distressed healthcare industry efforts nationwide.

Maizel is a partner in the Firm’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice, resident in the Los Angeles office. Among his accomplishments, he co-led a team of lawyers that represented Verity Health System of California in the second-largest nonprofit hospital bankruptcy case in US history, and he currently co-leads the firm’s representation of Borrego Community Health Foundation in San Diego and leads the representation of Curitec, Inc., in Houston. Maizel has lectured extensively, is widely published, and has been interviewed in print, on television and radio on issues related to the healthcare industry. He is the only lawyer in the US ranked in both healthcare and bankruptcy by Chambers and Partners and Best Lawyers. A fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, since 2007 he has been annually named a "Super Lawyer," an honor bestowed on only 5 percent of Southern California lawyers.