Leading Law Firms of the
Computer/Internet Industry
Arnold White & Durkee.
Primarily intellectual property firm with offices in Arlington VA, Menlo Park
CA, Austin TX, and other places.
Blumenfeld & Cohen.
A small firm specializing in communications, Internet, and antitrust law, with
offices in Washington DC and San Francisco. This website also contains an
excellent set of communications law links.
Brobeck Phelger & Harrison.
A 400+ attorney California law firms with a broad based practice. Its website
contains an excellent set of law links. It has offices in Los Angeles,
Orange County, Palo Alto, San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Denver, and New York
City.
Cooley Godward. A huge
firm with offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Denver, and Boulder,
specializing in venture capital matters, and electronics and biotech industries.
Fenwick & West. Palo
Alto, San Francisco, and Washington firm with technology clients, particularly
in intellectual property matters. Site also contains an extensive set of
publications on intellectual property law.
Fisher Wayland Cooper Leader &
Zaragoza. A Washington DC law firm specializing in communications
law.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Huge broad based Los Angeles law firm with offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto,
Washington DC, New York City, Dallas, Denver, and other locations. It includes
practice groups for communications, antitrust and trade regulation, and
intellectual property.
Gray Cary Ware & Freiderich.
San Diego, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and other locations. Specializes in
representing high tech and emerging growth companies, and includes a large
intellectual property law section.
Hale & Dorr. Boston
based firm with office in Washington DC, with online resources pertaining to
internet law, intellectual property, and antitrust.
Heller Ehrman. This is a
huge large firm with offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Portland,
Seattle, Tacoma, Anchorage, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Washington DC.
Latham & Watkins. Huge Los
Angeles based firm with offices in San Francisco, Menlo Park, San Diego,
Washington DC, and many other places. Rep. Chris Cox was a partner in this firm.
See also, the website section for its Computer
and Technology Group.
Limbach & Limbach.
San Francisco and San Jose intellectual property law firm (patent, trademark,
copyright, trade secret, licensing, litigation, and unfair trade competition).
Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes &
Lerach. A New York, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco firm
specializing in plaintiffs' class action securities fraud suits against high
tech companies, other plaintiffs' securities fraud suits, shareholder derivative
suits, and antitrust suits.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.
A huge San Francisco based firm with offices in New York, Los Angelos, Silicon
Valley, Washington, Singapore and Tokyo.
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt.
Exclusively intellectual property law firm located in Arlington VA.
Paisner & Co.
London based firm of about 50 attorneys which specializes in information
technology, Internet, media, and intellectual property law.
Perkins Coie. The
largest law firm in the Pacific Northwest, with offices in Seattle, Olympia,
Bellevue, Spokane, Portland, Los Angeles, Denver, Washington DC, Hong Kong, and
Taipei. The firm has almost 400 attorneys, and provides a full range of
services. It also provides the Internet Law
Case List, a large and searchable collection of desriptions of pending and
decided cases.
Pillsbury Madison & Sutro.
A huge San Francisco law firm, with offices in Los Angelos, Silicon Valley, San
Diego, Sacramento, Orange Co., Washington DC, New York City, Hong Kong, and
Tokyo. In addition to a full range of business law services, it handles
political law, including the law of lobbying, campaign finance law, conflict of
interest law, and government relations and lobbying. Its Cushman Darby & Cushman Intellectual
Property Group in Washington DC handles intellectual property matters.
Townsend and Townsend and Crew.
San Francisco firm specializing in patent, trademark, copyright, copyright
enforcement, antitrust, trade secrets, and unfair competition.
Venture Law Group. A
seventy plus attorney firm based in Menlo Park, CA, and Kirkland, WA, which
specializes in representing "deal intensive technology companies, both
public and private, and investment firms that support these firms."
Wiley Rein & Fielding.
Washington DC firm: areas of practice include election law, communications,
antitrust, internet, intellectual property, and government affairs and lobbying.
Some online resources.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher. A
large New York based firm with offices in Washington DC and elsewhere. Its areas
of practice include telecommunications law, Internet law, and intellectual
property counseling, litigation, and licensing.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
A huge Palo Alto firm with a specialization in technology law, including
technology licensing, software protection, patents, trademarks, copyrights,
antitrust, securities, mergers and acquisitions, trade regulation, interactive
media, venture capital, and technology transactions. This website includes some
online resources. Microsoft nemisis Gary Reback heads its High Technology
Group.