The first U.S. law firm to have a LEED-CI Platinum certified office (our Seattle office) in addition to a LEED-EB Gold certified office in Mountain View, CA. Also, the first law firm certified by Santa Clara County (the county covering most of Silicon Valley) as an environmentally sustainable "Green Business".
Ranked as one of the Top 10 "Best Places to Work in the Bay Area" two years in a row (2007-2008) by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
Ranked as one of the best law firms for women by Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers (2008)
Ranked by Minority Law Journal as one of the top five most diverse law firms in the United States
LITIGATION
Obtained $75M patent litigation verdict for client Asyst, one of the top 10 IP litigation verdicts of 2007
Obtained a $400M mid-trial settlement for client Compuware against IBM, one of the 25 largest IP Litigation payouts in U.S. history
Awarded “Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm” in 2005 by American Lawyer Media for F.I.N.D.—the firm's proprietary electronic discovery and due diligence system
Awarded one of 10 "Best in Class" awards in 2008 by Computerworld magazine for the firm's eDiscovery forensics system
Ranked by IP Law & Business in 2008 as one of only 20 "Go To Law Firms on the Cutting Edge" for patent litigation in the U.S.
Ranked by IP Worldwide as one of the top dozen firms that Fortune 500 companies relied on for IP litigation
Ranked by Managing Intellectual Property as one of the top five West Coast firms in IP litigation
CORPORATE
Ranked as one of the top Venture Capital groups in the entire U.S. by Chambers USA 2008
Ranked by Dow Jones as the fourth most active U.S. law firm in helping IT clients raise venture capital
Ranked by AlwaysOn in their 2008 Top Dealmakers Survey as one of the top corporate law firms for the technology industry
Ranked by MergerMarket as one of the top 5 technology M&A practices in the U.S., with #1 rankings in multiple quarters
Ranked by American Lawyer and Global Securities among the top 25 M&A firms in the United States—across all industries
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Ranked by IP Law & Business in 2008 as one of the top U.S. law firms that innovators rely on to protect their IP
Ranked by Managing Intellectual Property in 2007 and 2008 as one of the top 15 trademark law firms in the United States
Ranked by PatentRatings LLC as one of the top ten Computer/Software patent law firms in the United States
Ranked by IP Worldwide as one of the top dozen firms that Fortune 500 companies relied on for IP counseling
Ranked by Managing Intellectual Property as one of the top five West Coast firms in IP protection
TAX
Honored by International Tax Review as one of the world's leading tax planning and tax transactional practices for 2009, one of only three firms in the U.S. to appear in both categories
Awarded "Corporate Tax Law Firm of the Year" for North America by ACQ Global Awards (2009)
Recommended by Legal 500 as one of the top Domestic Tax practices in the West Coast (2009)
Honored by International Tax Review as the "2008 U.S. Tax Court Firm of the Year" for tax litigation and controversy matters (also won this prestigious award in 2006)
Ranked as one of the top Tax: Corporate and Finance groups in the U.S. by Chambers USA (2008)
Awarded First Tier status by World Tax Review (2008), one of only eight law firms in the U.S. to receive a First Tier rating
Awarded "Tax Litigation Firm of the Year for the U.S." (2006 and 2008) and "Tax Firm of the Year for San Francisco" (2006 and 2007) by International Tax Review
EARLY HISTORY
Launched Apple Computer in 1976
Took Oracle public in 1986, took eBay public in 1994 and have done more than 100 IPOs since, including Electronic Arts, Symantec, Intuit and the IPO of Concur Technologies in Seattle
Created the first shrink-wrap license agreement in 1976—for client Apple Computer
Negotiated one of the first software license agreements with 19-year entrepreneur Bill Gates
Created the first software "clean room" protocols—for client Wang Laboratories—which later became the industry standard for developing software to withstand IP infringement claims
Secured the first copyright registration for a graphic interface—for client Apple Computer
Registered one of the first business method patents for software
Handled some of the earliest, watershed software IP infringement battles, including Lotus v. Borland, Apple Computer v. Microsoft, Adobe v. Macromedia, Brown Bag Software v. Symantec, Amazon.com v. Barnesandnoble.com
