2025 LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards: shortlist revealed

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2025 LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards: shortlist revealed

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The LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards is thrilled to present the 2025 shortlist

LMG Life Sciences Americas is delighted to reveal the 2025 shortlist, honoring the law firms, legal departments, and individual practitioners leading the way in the life sciences industry across the United States, Canada, and Brazil.

This year's finalists represent the pinnacle of legal innovation and sector-specific excellence in areas including regulatory, IP, corporate, product liability, and more.

Winners will be announced on September 4, 2025 during a gala event at 583 Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Each shortlisted nominee was selected following a comprehensive research process that included firm submissions, market feedback, and independent analysis by the LMG Life Sciences research team.

For questions regarding our research process, please contact Jose Martinez.

For more information regarding the gala event and how to further promote your success, please contact George Reeves.


Now without further ado…

Preview of the 2025 shortlist categories for intellectual property:

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Firm awards

  • Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year: Branded

    Fenwick & West
    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Fish & Richardson
    O'Melveny & Myers
    Paul Hastings
    Venable
    WilmerHale
  • Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year: Generic

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

    Bookoff McAndrews
    Fenwick & West
    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Marshall Gerstein & Borun
    Morrison Foerster
    Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • Inter-Partes Review Firm of the Year

    Fish & Richardson
    Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone
    Paul Hastings
    Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Venable
  • Intellectual Property Boutique Firm of the Year

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

    Desmarias
    Fish & Richardson
    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
    Goodwin Procter
    Latham & Watkins
    Paul Hastings
    Williams & Connolly

Individual Awards

  • Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year: Branded

    Jeff Oelke, Fenwick & West
    James Monroe, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Martina Tyreus Hufnal, Fish & Richardson
    Charlotte Jackson, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
    Lisa Pensabene, O'Melveny & Myers
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: California

    W. Chad Shear, Cooley
    Juanita Brooks, Fish & Richardson
    Christy Lea, Knobbe Martens
    Siegmund Gutman, Mintz
    Daralyn Durie, Morrison Foerster
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: DC Metro

    Sanya Sukduang, Cooley
    William Raich, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Michael Morin, Latham & Watkins
    E. Anthony Figg, Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck
    David Berl, Williams & Connolly
    Amy Wigmore, WilmerHale
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: Midwest

    Sailesh Patel, ArentFox Schiff
    Betsy Flanagan, Cooley
    Kenneth Schuler, Latham & Watkins
    Michael Abernathy, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
    Steven Horowitz, Sidley Austin
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: New England

    Anthony Fitzpatrick, Duane Morris
    Elaine Blais, Goodwin Procter
    Charles Sanders, Latham & Watkins
    Sarah Chapin Columbia, McDermott Will & Emery
    William Lee, WilmerHale
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: New York

    Keith Hummel, Cravath Swaine & Moore
    Katherine Helm, Dechert
    John Desmarais, Desmarais
    Jane Love, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
    Arlene Lee Chow, Latham & Watkins
    Eric Dittmann, Paul Hastings
    David Bassett, WilmerHale
  • General Patent Litigator of the Year: South

    John Livingstone, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    Corrin Drakulich, Fish & Richardson
    William Peterson, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
  • Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year

    Michael Kane, Fish & Richardson
    Megan Raymond, Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone
    Naveen Modi, Paul Hastings
    John Molenda, Steptoe
    William Solander, Venable
  • Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year: Generic

    Imron Aly, ArentFox Schiff
    Daryl Wiesen, Goodwin Procter
    Scott Bornstein, Greenberg Traurig
    Carol Pitzel Cruz, Knobbe Martens
    T.O. Kong, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: California

    Jin Liu, Dickinson Wright
    Vicki Norton, Duane Morris
    Daniel Becker, Fenwick & West
    Christopher Bolten, Greenberg Traurig
    Sabing Lee, Knobbe Martens
    Catherine Polizzi, Morrison Foerster
    Gargi Talukder, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
    Lorna Tanner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: DC Metro

    Elizabeth Shah, Bookoff McAndrews
    Jonathan Bockman, Morrison Foerster
    Joseph Hynds, Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck
    Eldora Ellison, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Daniel Young, Wolf Greenfield & Sacks
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: Midwest

    William R. Boudreaux, Barnes & Thornburg
    Katherine Neville, Marshall Gerstein & Borun
    Christopher Betti, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
    Li-Hsien Rin-Laures, RinLaures
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: Massachusetts

    David Dykeman, Greenberg Traurig
    Kristin Connarn, Hogan Lovells
    Rebecca McNeill, McNeill
    Kathleen Williams, Nutter McClennen & Fish
    Fangli Chen, Proskauer
    Heather DiPietrantonio, Wolf Greenfield & Sacks
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: New York

    Margaret Brivanlou, Ballard Spahr
    David Kappos, Cravath Swaine & Moore
    Karen Mangasarian, Hailey Guiliano
    Gregory A. Morris, O'Melveny & Myers
    Z Ying Li, Steptoe
  • Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year: South

    Scott Marty, Ballard Spahr
    David Weingarten, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
    J Kevin Gray, Fish & Richardson
    Dr. Kristen Grüneberg, Grüneberg and Myers
    Tom Cowan, Knobbe Martens
    Mary Henninger, McNeill
  • US Rising Star: Intellectual Property

    Alice Ho, Arnold & Porter
    Paul Chang, Dickinson Wright
    Sarah Jack, Fish & Richardson

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

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