Sponsors
Kramer Levin provides proactive, creative and pragmatic solutions that address today’s most challenging legal issues. Headquartered in New York, with offices in Silicon Valley and Paris, our firm fosters a strong culture of involvement in public and community service. We regard it as imperative that we maintain an environment where people from diverse backgrounds can flourish. Over the past three years, 62% of new Kramer Levin partners were promoted from within and 50% were women.
Polsinelli is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 850 attorneys in 22 offices. The firm’s attorneys provide value through practical legal counsel infused with business insight, and focus on intellectual property, health care, financial services, real estate, mid-market corporate, labor and employment, and business litigation.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP operates according to the “one firm” principle, allowing us to bring the right mix of Firm-wide skill and local-market presence to deliver the coordinated legal advice necessary to help our clients achieve their goals and objectives. Our lawyers regularly advise clients globally on their most complex Litigation, Corporate, Restructuring and Tax & Benefits matters. Weil has been a preeminent provider of legal services for more than 85 years, and has been a pioneer in establishing a geographic footprint that has allowed the Firm to partner with clients wherever they do business. Weil’s lawyers have been widely recognized by those covering the legal profession as best in class.
Axinn combines the skills, experience and dedication of the world's largest firms with the focus, responsiveness, efficiency and attention to client needs of the best boutiques. The firm was established in the late 1990s by lawyers from premier Wall Street firms with a common vision: provide the highest level of service and strategic acumen in antitrust, intellectual property and high-stakes litigation. Axinn’s lawyers have served as lead or co-lead counsel on nearly half a trillion dollars in transactions and, in the last 10 years alone, have handled more than 250 litigations.
Lowenstein Sandler is a national law firm with over 350 lawyers working from five offices in New York, Palo Alto, New Jersey, Utah, and Washington, D.C. We represent clients in virtually every sector of the global economy, with particular strength in the areas of technology, life sciences, and investment funds.
Robins Kaplan LLP is among the nation’s premier trial law firms, with more than 225 attorneys in seven major cities. Our attorneys litigate, mediate, and arbitrate client disputes, always at-the-ready for an ultimate courtroom battle. When huge forces are at play, major money is at stake, or rights are being trampled, we help clients cut through complexity, get to the heart of the problem, and win what matters most.
We are clearly focused on business results for our clients. We achieve landmark triumphs and drive thousands of other cases to resolution before they ever hit the courtroom or the front page. From Big Tobacco to Kraft v. Starbucks, Bhopal and the World Trade Center—we have changed law, business, and society for the better by redefining what’s possible
Latham & Watkins delivers innovative solutions to complex legal and business challenges around the world. From a global platform, Latham lawyers advise leading multinationals, boundary-pushing start-ups, and the investors and financial institutions that fuel them. The firm helps clients navigate market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, and sophisticated regulatory matters. Latham is one of the world’s largest providers of pro bono services, steadfastly supports initiatives designed to advance diversity within the firm and the legal profession, and is committed to exploring and promoting environmental sustainability.
Klarquist is one of the oldest and largest intellectual property specialty firms based in the Pacific Northwest. The firm’s more than 60 attorneys and patent agents represent clients across the nation and the globe who are at the cutting edge of technology and innovation. Klarquist is routinely ranked in the top tier of IP firms in the US and the world, and the firm’s attorneys often receive individual recognition for their technical and legal expertise.
Duane Morris LLP, a law firm with more than 700 attorneys in offices across the United States and internationally, is asked by a broad array of clients to provide innovative solutions to today's legal and business challenges.
Evolving from a partnership of prominent lawyers in Philadelphia a century ago, Duane Morris' modern organization stretches from the U.S. to Europe and the Middle East, and now across Asia. Throughout this global expansion, Duane Morris has remained committed to preserving its collegial, collaborative culture that has attracted many talented attorneys. The firm's leadership, and outside observers like the Harvard Business School, believe this culture is truly unique among large law firms, and helps account for the firm continuing to prosper throughout changing economic and industry conditions.
Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the constantly evolving demands facing our clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Asia, Foley approaches client service by first understanding our clients’ priorities, objectives, and challenges. We work hard to understand our clients’ issues and forge long-term relationships with them to help achieve successful outcomes and solve their legal issues through practical business advice and cutting-edge legal insight. Our clients view us as trusted business advisors because we understand that great legal service is only valuable if it is relevant, practical and beneficial to their businesses.
Knobbe Martens is a highly respected intellectual property law firm, offering legal services in all aspects of intellectual property and technology law. We believe that true innovation comes from celebrating what's different and unique. That's why we embrace diversity at every level of our firm. By drawing upon a variety of perspectives and experiences, we bring cutting edge approaches and strategic solutions to our clients. Led by our Diversity Committee, we actively hire, retain and promote attorneys with diverse backgrounds, keeping the firm at the leading edge of law.
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Results matter. For more than thirty years, Keker, Van Nest & Peters have tried and litigated complex, high-stakes civil and criminal cases throughout the nation, obtaining the best possible results for our clients. We take the tough cases, the make or break cases where companies, products, careers are riding on the result. It’s in the nature of tough cases to end up in court where our expertise and deep bench of trial lawyers shines. Indeed, we have found our eagerness to try cases often helps them settle.
Our clients are individuals, as well as some of the most successful companies in the world, including Electronic Arts Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; Comcast Cable Communications, LLC; HTC; Intel Corp.; Medtronic, Inc., McKesson Corporation; and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
Orrick is a leading global law firm with a particular focus on serving companies in the technology, energy and financial sectors. We are recognized worldwide for delivering the highest-quality, commercially-oriented legal advice and for our culture of innovation and collaboration.
Founded in San Francisco a century and a half ago, Orrick today is named by Law360 as one of the “Global 20” leading firms. Our platform offers clients a distinctive combination of local insight and global reach across 25 offices.
Benesch is an AmLaw 200 business law firm with offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Hackensack, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai and Wilmington. The firm is known for providing highly sophisticated legal services to national and international clients that include public and private, middle market and emerging companies, as well as private equity funds, entrepreneurs, and not-for-profit organizations. We have had extraordinary success in welcoming many new attorneys to Benesch over the past several years, including opening a Chicago office (now more than 100 attorneys strong); and establishing a San Francisco office.
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,100 lawyers in offices across the United States and Asia, we provide a full array of corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders as well as public and not-for-profit organizations.