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 #3 for "Best Places to Work" by Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times (2010). Also awarded "Best Places to Work" in 2008 and 2009
Ranked as one of the best law firms for women by Working Mother Magazine & Flex-Time Lawyers (2008)
Ranked by Minority Law Journal as one of the top three and by American Lawyer as one of the top seven most diverse law firms in the United States
LITIGATION
Ranked by Vault in 2010 as one of the top 20 U.S. law firms for IP litigation and counseling
Ranked by Managing Intellectual Property as one of the top five West Coast firms in both IP litigation and IP protection
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
CORPORATE
Ranked by Bloomberg as one of the top 20 Global M&A Advisors—for Q1 2010
Ranked by Thomson Reuters as one of the Top 3 most active U.S. M&A legal advisors—across all industries—based on number of deals
involving U.S. target companies—for Q1 2010
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 Intellectual Property Today in 2010 as one of the top patent law firms in the U.S.
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 as one of the top Intellectual Property groups in California by Chambers USA 2009
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 (2010) as one of the world’s leading tax planning practices, one of only two law firms in the entire U.S. to earn First Tier status
Also Honored by International Tax Review (2010) as one of the world’s leading tax transactional practices, one of only five law firms in the entire U.S. to earn First Tier status
Five Fenwick & West tax attorneys are on the Euromoney "World's Leading Tax Advisors" and one each appears on the Euromoney "World's Top 25 Tax Advisors" and "World's Top 25 Women Tax Advisors"
International Tax Review (2009) named Fenwick & West as "Tax Firm of the Year for the San Francisco Area" 3 out of the last 4 years. Also awarded "U.S. Tax Litigation Firm of the Year" 2 out of the last 4 years.Honored by International Tax Review (2010) as one of the world’s leading tax transactional practices, one of only five law firms in the entire U.S. to earn First Tier status
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
