LMG Life Sciences Awards Americas 2024: shortlist revealed

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LMG Life Sciences Awards Americas 2024: shortlist revealed

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The LMG Life Sciences Awards is thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2024 Ameicas Awards

The LMG Life Sciences Awards has released the full list of finalists for the 2024 Americas Awards. These awards bring together the region’s legal community to recognise the leading law firms and attorneys to celebrate their successes in the Life Sciences industry.

The winners will be announced at a black-tie gala celebration on September 5 2024 at 583 Park Avenue in Manhattan.


The LMG Life Sciences Awards research team carefully selected each finalist after a thorough research period which included an analysis of direct submissions, client feedback, and heavy deliberation. Individual practitioners and Rising Stars are judged not only on the complexity of their work but also on their thought leadership.

All the work accepted to be shortlisted closed during the research period, June 1 2023 to May 31 2024. The awards do not recognise cases, deals, or other matters completed outside of the research period.

If you have any questions regarding our research process, please contact Jose Martinez.

To find out more about the gala and how you can promote your success, please contact George Reeves.

Now without further ado…

Preview of the intellectual property shortlist categories for 2024:

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Firm awards

  • Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year: Branded

    Cooley
    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Fish & Richardson
    Steptoe
    WilmerHale
    Williams & Connolly
  • Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year: Generic

    ArentFox Schiff
    Axinn
    Goodwin Procter
    Greenberg Traurig
    Knobbe Martens
    Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  • Patent Strategy Firm of the Year

    Sponsored by CAS
    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Greenberg Traurig
    Grüneberg and Myers
    Honigman
    Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
  • Inter-Partes Review Firm of the Year

    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Fish & Richardson
    Goodwin Procter
    Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone
    Knobbe Martens
  • Intellectual Property Boutique Firm of the Year

    Desmarais
    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Fish & Richardson
    Grüneberg and Myers
    Knobbe Martens
    Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck PC
    Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • Firm of the Year: Intellectual Property

    Cooley
    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Fish & Richardson
    Goodwin Procter
    Paul Hastings
    WilmerHale

Individual Awards

  • Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year: Branded

    David Bassett, WilmerHale
    Jennifer H Roscetti, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunne
    Jonathan Davies, Cooley
    Mark Waddell, Loeb & Loeb
    Stanley Fisher, Williams & Connolly
    Vishal Gupta, Steptoe
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: California

    Chad Shear, Cooley
    Darryl Woo, Goodwin Procter
    Edward Reines, Weil Gotshal & Manges
    Joseph Re, Knobbe Martens
    Kira Davis, Morrison Foerster
    Siegmund Y Gutman, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
    William Gaede, McDermott Will & Emery
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: DC Metro

    Amy Wigmore, WilmerHale
    David Berl, Williams & Connolly
    Megan Freeland Raymond, Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone
    Michael Morin, Latham & Watkins
    Naveen Modi, Paul Hastings
    William B Raich, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunne
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: Midwest

    Betsy Flanagan, Cooley
    Imron Aly, ArentFox Schiff
    Matthew Walch, Latham & Watkins
    Michael Abernathy, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
    Tim Grimsrud, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: New England

    Charles Sanders, Latham & Watkins
    Elaine Blais, Goodwin Procter
    Eric Marandett, Choate Hall & Stewart
    Michael Summersgill, WilmerHale
    Sarah Columbia, McDermott Will & Emery
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: New York

    Eric Alan Stone, Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone
    Eric Dittmann, Paul Hastings
    Gerald J Flattmann Jr, Cahil Gordon
    Jane M Love, Gibson Dunn
    John M Desmarais, Desmarais
    Katherine A Helm, Dechert
    Vishal Gupta, Steptoe
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: South

    Betty Yang, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
    Corrin Drakulich, Fish & Richardson
    John D Livingstone, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunne
    Joseph Mahoney, Mayer Brown
    Patrick Gallagher, Duane Morris
  • Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year

    Elizabeth Weiswasser, Weil Gotshal & Manges
    Joshua Stowell, Knobbe Martens
    Linea Cipriano, Goodwin Procter
    Mark J Feldstein, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunne
    Megan Freeland Raymond, Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone
    Naveen Modi, Paul Hastings
  • Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year: Generic

    JC Rozendaal, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Matthew Becker, Axinn
    Sailesh Patel, ArentFox Schiff
    Scott Bornstein, Greenberg Traurig
    T O Kong, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    William Zimmerman, Knobbe Martens
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: California

    Caleb Bates, Fish & Richardson
    Janet Xiao, Morrison Foerster
    Judy Mohr, McDermott Will & Emery
    Michael Hostetler, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    Sabrina Poulos, Goodwin Procter
    Salima Merani, Knobbe Martens
    Vicki Norton, Duane Morris
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: DC Metro

    Deborah Sterling, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Dinesh Melwani, Bookoff McAndrews
    Harold Fox, Honigman
    Joseph Hynds, Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck
    Kirsten Grüneberg, Grüneberg and Myers
    Martin Bruehs, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
    Ryan O'Quinn, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunne
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: Midwest

    Christopher Betti, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
    Jonathan P O'Brien, Honigman
    Li-Hsien Rin-Laures, RinLaures
    Vera Nackovic, mayer Brown
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: New England

    Sponsored by CAS
    Catherine McCarty, Goodwin Procter
    Christine Goddard, Fish & Richardson
    Heidi Erlacher, Cooley
    Jane Remillard, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
    Jeffrey M Jacobstein, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunne
    Kathleen M Williams, Nutter McClennen & Fish
    Melissa Hunter-Ensor, Greenberg Traurig
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: New York

    Carol Morales, Fenwick & West
    Ivor Elrifi, Cooley
    Peter J Armenio, Cahill Gordon
    Robert Gunther Jr, WilmerHale
    Thomas Kowalski, Duane Morris
    Ying Li, Steptoe
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: South

    David Weingarten, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunne
    John Kevin Gray, Fish & Richardson
    Mary Henninger, McNeill Baur
    Scott marty, Ballard Spahr
  • US Rising Star: Intellectual Property

    Constance P Lee, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunne
    Derrick Rowe, Wilson Sosini Goodrich & Rosati
    Jennifer Rea Deneault, Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone
    Natasha Daughtrey, Goodwin Procter
    Shannon Lam, Knobbe Martens

LMG Life Sciences is a sister publication to Managing IP, and is run independently from IP STARS research.


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