BASF Leaders Circle Firms and Members Recognized in 2022 Edition of World Trademark Review 1000

Firms: Enforcement and Litigation

Gold

Cooley
Fenwick & West
Latham & Watkins

Silver

Hanson Bridgett
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
O’Melveny & Myers
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton

Bronze

Crowell & Moring
Durie Tangri
Greenberg Traurig
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Firms: Prosecution and Strategy

Gold

Fenwick & West

Silver

Cooley
Greenberg Traurig
Hanson Bridgett
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton

Bronze

Latham & Watkins
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
O’Melveny & Myers

Individuals: Enforcement and Litigation

In the Gold category, Jedediah Wakefield, Fenwick & West was recognized. The Silver category includes Gina L. Durham, DLA Piper; Ian K. Boyd, Sideman & Bancroft; Jeffrey C. Hallam, Sideman & Bancroft; Joseph C. Gratz, Durie Tangri; Kenneth E. Keller and Vijay Kumar Toke, both of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. In the Bronze category, Annette L. Hurst, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Carla B. Oakley and Sharon R. Smith, both of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Kathryn J. Fritz, Fenwick & West; Marcy J. Bergman, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner; Robert A. Weikert, Nixon Peabody; and Zachary J. Alinder, Sideman & Bancroft received recognition. 

Individuals: Prosecution and Strategy

In the Gold category, Beth Marlene Goldman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe was recognized. The Silver category includes Ian K. Boyd, Sideman & Bancroft, and Michelle D. Kahn, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. In the Bronze category, Betsy Wang Lee, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Carla B. Oakley, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; and Garner K. Weng, Hanson Bridgett received recognition. 

Luminaries

Thomas McCarthy, Morrison & Foerster

World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000) – the World’s Leading Trademark Professionals is a unique guide that identifies the top trademark professionals in key jurisdictions around the globe. The WTR 1000 focuses exclusively on trademark practice and has firmly established itself as the definitive ‘go-to’ resource for those seeking world-class legal trademark expertise.

BASF Leaders Circle Firms Recognized in 2022 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards by Law.com

Morgan Lewis
Latham & Watkins
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Firms are selected for the hard work they’ve put in pushing the law forward. As the world becomes more connected and more tech-centric than ever before, today’s law firms, corporate legal departments and the partners they work with have been striving to keep up with the pace. And even with a pandemic looming over their heads, shifting standards and regulations almost daily, and a mountain of data and tech issues to contend with, the legal community has been able to innovate with the best of them. 

Griffin Named 2022’s Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40 by The LGBTQ+ Bar

BASF member Nicole Griffin, Metoyer Law Offices, received the LGBTQ+ Bar’s Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40 Award among 40 legal professionals. The full class of 2022 Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40 reflects the LGBTQ+ Bar’s organizational commitment to supporting and lifting up those attorneys, who, in addition to being excellent LGBTQ+ lawyers with a deep commitment to giving back to the LGBTQ+ community, fairly represent identities of our most marginalized populations, including transgender and nonbinary people, people of color, bisexual people, people with disabilities, and women.

BASF Leaders Circle Firms Named in PitchBook‘s 2021 Annual Global League Tables for Private Equity Deal Volume 

Most Active Globally

Latham & Watkins
DLA Piper
Goodwin Procter
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Paul Hastings
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Most Active in U.S.

Latham & Watkins
Goodwin Procter
DLA Piper
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Alston & Bird
Paul Hastings
Cooley

BASF Leaders Circle Firms and Members Named 2022 Readers Choice Awards by JD Supra

Top Firms:

The following BASF members were recognized in the awards: Cydney S. Posner, Cooley (Securities); Thomas Simmons Lee, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Environment); Joanna L. Storey, Hinshaw & Culbertson (Data Privacy); and Sophia Benson Strong Castillo, Downey Brand (Food & Beverage).

Last year, more than 65,000 authors published their insights and commentary on JD Supra. 267 thought leaders were recognized for achieving the highest visibility and engagement among readers for their particular expertise. 

BASF Leaders Circle Firms Recognized in Media Law Practices by Media Law International

Tier 1

Davis Wright Tremaine
Latham & Watkins
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton

Tier 2

Cooley
Paul Hastings
Perkins Coie
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Venable

Tier 3

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Baker McKenzie
DLA Piper
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Tier 4

Baker Botts
Foley & Lardner
Morrison & Foerster
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Media Law International (MLI) is an independent publishing business that produces the flagship annual guide, and a bi-monthly e-Zine. Our niche publications focus exclusively on media law, providing broad coverage of legal and business sectors in multiple jurisdictions.   

The annual guide provides comprehensive coverage of firms and practitioners with media law expertise, across 56 jurisdictions. Our research is based on objective market analysis that focuses exclusively on one practice area, media law. This means our specialist publication is dedicated solely to the examination of legal media practice – bringing together rankings, industry coverage of trends and global legal perspectives.