Law firms in IP litigation

Counsel of record across every federal IP lawsuit IP Feed tracks, aggregated by firm. The split shows how often each firm appears for the party bringing the suit versus defending it.

  1. 1
    Gillam & Smith
    132 cases9 for plaintiffs102 for defendants
  2. 2
    Morris Nichols Arsht and Tunnell
    109 cases37 for plaintiffs73 for defendants
  3. 3
    Fish & Richardson
    86 cases17 for plaintiffs61 for defendants
  4. 4
    Sanders Law Group
    77 cases77 for plaintiffs
  5. 5
    Greer, Burns & Crain
    70 cases28 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  6. 6
    Farnan LLP
    69 cases58 for plaintiffs11 for defendants
  7. 7
    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart& Sullivan
    68 cases22 for plaintiffs37 for defendants
  8. 8
    Russ August & Kabat
    67 cases58 for plaintiffs10 for defendants
  9. 9
    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
    57 cases11 for plaintiffs39 for defendants
  10. 10
    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
    56 cases16 for plaintiffs35 for defendants
  11. 11
    The Dacus Firm, PC
    55 cases4 for plaintiffs39 for defendants
  12. 12
    O'Melveny & Myers
    53 cases14 for plaintiffs33 for defendants
  13. 13
    McKool Smith
    52 cases32 for plaintiffs12 for defendants
  14. 14
    Cooley
    51 cases12 for plaintiffs31 for defendants
  15. 15
    Morrison & Foerster
    49 cases3 for plaintiffs39 for defendants
  16. 16
    Latham & Watkins
    48 cases13 for plaintiffs33 for defendants
  17. 17
    Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
    47 cases10 for plaintiffs15 for defendants
  18. 18
    Doniger Burroughs
    46 cases42 for plaintiffs
  19. 19
    Keker Van Nest & Peters
    45 cases9 for plaintiffs29 for defendants
  20. 20
    Ashby & Geddes
    43 cases23 for plaintiffs20 for defendants
  21. 21
    Miller Fair Henry PLLC
    41 cases32 for plaintiffs6 for defendants
  22. 22
    Perkins Coie
    39 cases5 for plaintiffs24 for defendants
  23. 23
    Duane Morris
    38 cases5 for plaintiffs23 for defendants
  24. 24
    Kirkland & Ellis
    38 cases9 for plaintiffs22 for defendants
  25. 25
    PRO SE
    38 cases23 for plaintiffs11 for defendants
  26. 26
    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    38 cases9 for plaintiffs26 for defendants
  27. 27
    Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor
    38 cases25 for plaintiffs12 for defendants
  28. 28
    Baker Botts
    37 cases11 for plaintiffs21 for defendants
  29. 29
    Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp
    37 cases21 for plaintiffs15 for defendants
  30. 30
    Potter Minton
    36 cases1 for plaintiffs27 for defendants
  31. 31
    Alston & Bird
    35 cases11 for plaintiffs18 for defendants
  32. 32
    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
    35 cases8 for plaintiffs23 for defendants
  33. 33
    Potter Anderson & Corroon
    35 cases15 for plaintiffs20 for defendants
  34. 34
    Richards, Layton & Finger
    35 cases10 for plaintiffs21 for defendants
  35. 35
    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
    34 cases7 for plaintiffs25 for defendants
  36. 36
    Garteiser Honea PLLC
    33 cases32 for plaintiffs
  37. 37
    Greenberg Traurig
    33 cases11 for plaintiffs20 for defendants
  38. 38
    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
    33 cases5 for plaintiffs21 for defendants
  39. 39
    Susman Godfrey LLP
    33 cases28 for plaintiffs
  40. 40
    DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE (LOS ANGELES)
    32 cases31 for plaintiffs
  41. 41
    Rabicoff Law LLC
    32 cases32 for plaintiffs
  42. 42
    Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC
    32 cases31 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  43. 43
    Pryor Cashman LLP
    31 cases10 for plaintiffs16 for defendants
  44. 44
    Sriplaw
    31 cases31 for plaintiffs
  45. 45
    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
    30 cases9 for plaintiffs15 for defendants
  46. 46
    DLA Piper LLP US
    30 cases8 for plaintiffs21 for defendants
  47. 47
    Boies Schiller Flexner
    29 cases20 for plaintiffs3 for defendants
  48. 48
    Paul Hastings
    28 cases9 for plaintiffs19 for defendants
  49. 49
    Shaw Keller LLP
    28 cases11 for plaintiffs17 for defendants
  50. 50
    Irell & Manella
    27 cases23 for plaintiffs3 for defendants
  51. 51
    Jackson Walker LLP
    27 cases6 for plaintiffs18 for defendants
  52. 52
    Winston & Strawn
    27 cases5 for plaintiffs16 for defendants
  53. 53
    Devlin Law Firm
    26 cases23 for plaintiffs3 for defendants
  54. 54
    K&L Gates
    25 cases17 for plaintiffs5 for defendants
  55. 55
    TME Law P.C.
    25 cases18 for plaintiffs
  56. 56
    King & Spalding
    24 cases11 for plaintiffs10 for defendants
  57. 57
    Capshaw DeRieux LLP
    22 cases18 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  58. 58
    Morgan Lewis & Bockius
    22 cases4 for plaintiffs16 for defendants
  59. 59
    Sidley Austin LLP
    22 cases10 for plaintiffs11 for defendants
  60. 60
    Attorney at Law
    21 cases20 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  61. 61
    DLA Piper LLP
    21 cases3 for plaintiffs11 for defendants
  62. 62
    Jones Day
    20 cases9 for plaintiffs11 for defendants
  63. 63
    Venable LLP
    20 cases10 for plaintiffs8 for defendants
  64. 64
    Ward, Smith & Hill, PLLC
    20 cases16 for plaintiffs4 for defendants
  65. 65
    Desmarais LLP
    19 cases5 for plaintiffs14 for defendants
  66. 66
    Fenwick & West LLP
    19 cases1 for plaintiffs15 for defendants
  67. 67
    Stris & Maher
    19 cases16 for plaintiffs2 for defendants
  68. 68
    Bunsow De Mory LLP
    18 cases13 for plaintiffs5 for defendants
  69. 69
    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
    18 cases1 for plaintiffs15 for defendants
  70. 70
    Durie Tangri LLP
    18 cases10 for plaintiffs7 for defendants
  71. 71
    Findlay Craft PC
    18 cases5 for plaintiffs9 for defendants
  72. 72
    Munger Tolles & Olson
    18 cases7 for plaintiffs9 for defendants
  73. 73
    Nixon Peabody
    18 cases8 for plaintiffs7 for defendants
  74. 74
    Fabricant LLP
    17 cases16 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  75. 75
    Holland & Knight
    17 cases8 for plaintiffs7 for defendants
  76. 76
    Jenner & Block
    17 cases8 for plaintiffs7 for defendants
  77. 77
    Loeb and Loeb
    17 cases4 for plaintiffs12 for defendants
  78. 78
    Morrison Foerster
    17 cases1 for plaintiffs11 for defendants
  79. 79
    Goodwin Procter
    16 cases7 for plaintiffs7 for defendants
  80. 80
    McCarter & English
    16 cases10 for plaintiffs6 for defendants
  81. 81
    Oppenheim and Zebrak
    16 cases14 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  82. 82
    Quinn Emanuel
    16 cases5 for plaintiffs9 for defendants
  83. 83
    White & Case
    16 cases8 for plaintiffs5 for defendants
  84. 84
    Bayard, P.A.
    15 cases14 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  85. 85
    Covington & Burling
    15 cases5 for plaintiffs7 for defendants
  86. 86
    Cowan Liebowitz & Latman PC
    15 cases5 for plaintiffs10 for defendants
  87. 87
    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
    15 cases2 for plaintiffs9 for defendants
  88. 88
    Foley & Lardner
    15 cases3 for plaintiffs10 for defendants
  89. 89
    REED SMITH LLP
    15 cases4 for plaintiffs9 for defendants
  90. 90
    Baker & Hostetler
    14 cases6 for plaintiffs6 for defendants
  91. 91
    Dnl Zito
    14 cases11 for plaintiffs2 for defendants
  92. 92
    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    14 cases7 for plaintiffs5 for defendants
  93. 93
    Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP
    14 cases12 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  94. 94
    Barnes & Thornburg
    13 cases4 for plaintiffs8 for defendants
  95. 95
    DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE (SEA)
    13 cases10 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  96. 96
    Direction IP Law
    13 cases7 for plaintiffs1 for defendants
  97. 97
    Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
    13 cases5 for plaintiffs5 for defendants
  98. 98
    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
    13 cases6 for plaintiffs6 for defendants
  99. 99
    Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP
    13 cases13 for defendants
  100. 100
    Spencer Fane
    13 cases11 for plaintiffs1 for defendants

Counsel is sourced from public CourtListener docket records; firm names are normalized across spellings and offices. A firm may appear on both sides across different cases. Coverage grows as dockets are processed.