Ranked #1 by MultiCultural Law Magazine in the publication's 2011 "Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity" survey. Also ranked #1 in the "Top 25 Law Firms for Asian-Americans" survey and #4 in the "Top 50 Law Firms for Associates" survey
Recently received 100% score (A+ rating) on The Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2011 Corporate Equality Index for Fenwick's pro-LGBT policies and working environment
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
Awarded "Employer of the Year" by The Arc of San Francisco for the agency's 2010 WorkLife Awards, which celebrate the work and life achievements of people with disabilities and the San Francisco businesses that employ them
Ranked as a "Top Technology & Life Sciences Law Firm" by InterContinental Finance Magazine in its 2011 Highly Commended - Top Tier Firm listing
Ranked by CleanTechies as one of the Top 10 Cleantech Law Firms in the U.S. (2011)
Ranked by Vault.com as the #1 Green Law Firm for 2012
Ranked #4 in the American Lawyer 2011 Law Firm Technology Survey
More than 15% of Fenwick & West partners are ranked in Band 1 or Band 2 by Chambers USA 2011
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 #5 for "Best Places to Work" by Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times (2011). Also awarded "Best Places to Work" in 2008, 2009 and 2010
LITIGATION
Ranked as First Tier nationally (and in the San Francisco Bay Area) for IP litigation and patent litigation in the "Best Law Firms" guide released by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers
Also ranked as one of the top law firms nationally (and in the San Francisco Bay Area) for commercial litigation in the "Best Law Firms" guide released by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers
Ranked as a "Go-To" law firm for litigation by The American Lawyer
Ranked by Vault in 2010 as one of the top 20 U.S. law firms for IP litigation and counseling.
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 both IP litigation and IP protection.
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.
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.
CORPORATE
Ranked by Mergermarket in 2010 as one of the Top 5 M&A legal advisors in North America for Technology deals. Also ranked by Mergermarket as one of the Top 10 West Coast M&A legal advisors.
Ranked by Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and FactSet as one of the Top 10 M&A legal advisors in the U.S.—for 2011 YTD.
Ranked by Thomson Reuters and FactSet as one of the Top 25 M&A legal advisors worldwide—for 2011 YTD.
Fenwick & West won the "2010 Technologies Deal of the Year" by Global M&A Network for its representation of SonicWALL's $717M acquisition by an investor group led by Thoma Bravo. Also won the "2010 Cross Border M&A Deal of the Year" for its representation of Diamond Foods' $615M acquisition of Kettle Foods.
Ranked as a First Tier U.S. law firm for Venture Capital Investment Funds by Chambers USA 2010.
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 Corporate Board Member as one of the top five corporate law firms in northern California for publicly-traded companies.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Ranked as a Top 25 law firm on Intellectual Property Today's Patent Scorecard 2011.
Honored by InterContinental FinanceMagazine's Legal Excellence Awards 2010 as "Law Firm of the Year" for intellectual property.
Ranked by Managing Intellectual Property as one of the top 15 trademark law firms in the United States.
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
Awarded First Tier status by World Tax Review every year, most recently in World Tax 2011.
Awarded First Tier status as one of the world's leading tax transactional practices by International Tax Review (2011).
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".
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).
Ranked as one of the top Tax: Corporate and Finance groups in the U.S. by Chambers USA (2008).
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.
