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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.