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Tier 1 Law Firms Tier 2 Law Firms U.S. News & World Report – Best Lawyers in America 2011-12 listed more than 160 law firms in its ranking of Intellectual Property Litigation Firms. Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is proud to have been ranked a Tier 1 Firm. The following lists all firms named, and the Tier under which each is listed. TIER 1 LAW FIRMS Covington & Burling LLP Winston & Strawn LLP Fenwick & West LLP Alston + Bird LLP Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Chaz De La Garza & Assoc., LLC Fish & Richardson P.C. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Foley & Lardner LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP K&L Gates LLP DLA Piper LLP Kenyon & Kenyon LLP Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP McDermott Will & Emery LLP Greenberg Traurig LLP Morrison & Foerster LLP Holland & Knight, LLP Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Howrey LLP Perkins Coie LLP Jones Day Sidley Austin LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Susman Godfrey LLP WilmerHale Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP TIER 2 LAW FIRMS Akerman Senterfitt LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Bingham McCutchen LLP Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Dechert LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP Faegre & Benson LLP Woodcock Washburn LLP Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Abelman Frayne & Schwab Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A. Holland & Hart LLP Arnold & Porter LLP Kaye Scholer LLP Baker & McKenzie LLP Keker & Van Nest LLP Baker Botts L.L.P. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Leydig, Voit & Mayer, LTD. Barlow, Josephs & Holmes Ltd. Liskow & Lewis APLC Barnes & Thornburg LLP Loeb & Loeb LLP Blank Rome LLP Mayer Brown LLP Bracewell & Giuliani LLP McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP Christensen O’Connor Johnson & Kindness PLLC McKool Smith PC Conrad O’Brien PC Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Cooley LLP Nixon Peabody LLP Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C. edwardswildman.com TIER 2 LAW FIRMS (continued) Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. Duane Morris LLP McGuireWoods LLP Farella Braun + Martel LLP Michael Best & Friedrich LLP Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC Paul Hastings LLP Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Quarles & Brady LLP Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Reed Smith LLP Hoffberger & Hollander, LLC Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP Haynes and Boone, LLP Riddell Williams P.S. Hogan Lovells US LLP Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Hunton & Williams LLP Slusser Wilson & Partridge LLP Ice Miller LLP SNR Denton LLP Kean Miller LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP Stoel Rives LLP Kendall Brill & Klieger LLP Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Thompson Hine LLP King & Spalding LLP White & Case LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. LeClairRyan Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC Leopold, Petrich & Smith Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Locke Lord LLP Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP Maynard Cooper & Gale, P.C. TIER 3 LAW FIRMS Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Dority & Manning, P.A. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Foster Pepper PLLC Chernoff, Vilhauer, McClung & Hoffmann & Baron Stenzel LLP Jenner & Block LLP Clyde Snow & Sessions, PC Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Dickstein Shapiro LLP Klarquist Sparkman, LLP Dorsey & Whitney LLP Lathrop & Gage LLP Durie Tangri LLP Law Office of David J. Harth Gibbons P.C. Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P. Peretz, Chesal & Herrmann, PL McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Merchant & Gould Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C. Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP Stoll Berne O’Melveny & Myers LLP Venable LLP Pepper Hamilton LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Yetter Coleman LLP Taylor & Weber Co. L.P.A. Baker & Hostetler LLP Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. Boyle Fredrickson, S.C. Scott & Bush Ltd. Bryan Cave LLP Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. Choate Hall & Stewart LLP Troutman Sanders LLP Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. Learn more at edwardswildman.com BOSTON CHICAGO FT LAUDERDALE HARTFORD LONDON LOS ANGELES MADISON NJ NEW YORK NEWPORT BEACH PROVIDENCE STAMFORD TOKYO WASHINGTON DC WEST PALM BEACH HONG KONG (associated office).
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