Fenwick & West "Leads the League" in 2010 Northern California Super Lawyers in the "Intellectual Property" and "Intellectual Property Litigation" Categories – 31 Fenwick Attorneys Honored, Gordon Davidson Named to Top 100 Attorney List

August 20, 2010 (Mountain View and San Francisco, CA) – The 2010 edition of Northern California Super Lawyers magazine is out, and 31 Fenwick & West attorneys were placed on the magazine's Super Lawyers list.

More than 20% of the lawyers identified in the magazine's "Intellectual Property" category are from Fenwick—far more than from any other firm—and Fenwick also placed more lawyers in the magazine's "Intellectual Property Litigation" category than any other firm. Overall, 32 Fenwick attorneys were honored as Super Lawyers across a variety of categories, and five more were listed as "Rising Stars."

The 2010 Fenwick & West Super Lawyers include:

ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Tyler Baker
Mark Ostrau

BUSINESS AND CORPORATE

Barry Kramer
Mark Stevens

BUSINESS LITIGATION

Emmett Stanton

EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS/ERISA

Mona Clee

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR

Victor Schachter

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Sally Abel
David Hayes
John McNelis
Stuart Meyer
Ralph Pais
Rajiv Patel
Mitchell Zimmerman

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION

Rodger Cole
William Fenwick
Kathryn Fritz
Charlene Morrow
Lynn Pasahow
Laurence Pulgram
Michael Sacksteder
Darryl Woo

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Douglas Cogen

SECURITIES & CORPORATE FINANCE

Gordon Davidson
Dennis DeBroeck
Horace Nash
Laird Simons
Jeffrey Vetter

TAX

David Forst
James Fuller
Walter Raineri

2010 RISING STARS

Carolyn Chang
Michael Esquivel
Heather Mewes
Saina Shamilov
Jae Won Song

ABOUT FENWICK & WEST

Established in 1972, Fenwick & West LLP is one of the nation's premier law firms providing comprehensive legal services to high technology and life sciences clients in Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley; particularly in the areas of litigation and dispute resolution, antitrust, securities, venture capital and other corporate finance, corporate governance, joint ventures, M&A and strategic relationships, intellectual property, taxation and employment and labor law. More information can be found on www.fenwick.com.