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Practice Leadership

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  • Amy S. Mushahwar
  • Partner
    Chair, Data Privacy, Security, Safety & Risk Management
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Honors & Awards

  • World Trademark Review (2012-2026):
    • Listed among the “go-to” trademark practices in World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000
    • Chair of our Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets & Advertising practice, Vanessa A. Ignacio, partner Matthew P. Hintz, and counsel Jenna-Marie Tracy individually recognized as leading practitioners
    • Vanessa A. Ignacio and Matthew P. Hintz recognized among WTR’s Global Leaders: Private Practice
  • The Legal 500: U.S. City Elite (2026):
    • Kevin O. Grange individually recognized for Intellectual Property (Salt Lake City)
    • Kathleen A. McGee individually recognized for Cybersecurity and data protection (New York)
    • Amy S. Mushahwar individually recognized for Cybersecurity (Washington, D.C.)
  • Juristat Top Patent Firms (2025):

    Honors received: Normalized Allowance Rate: Gold; Normalized Time to Allowance: Gold; Normalized Office Actions to Allowance: Silver; Extensions: Gold; Time to Response After Office Action: Gold; Top Outside Counsel, Computer Science/IT

  • Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) (2016-2025):
    • Listed among the preeminent patent practices in IAM's Patent 1000 – The World's Leading Patent Practitioners in California, New Jersey, and Utah
    • Chair of our Intellectual Property practice, Mark P. Kesslen, and partners Kevin O. Grange, Benjamin A. Kimes, Robert J. Paradiso, and Marina Portnova, individually recognized among leading global patent practitioners
    • Mark P. Kesslen, Kevin O. Grange, Robert J. Paradiso, and Marina Portnova individually recognized as Global Leaders
    • Kevin O. Grange recognized as a Global IP Leader in IAM Strategy 300 
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patent Pro Bono Certificate (2018-2023)
  • Patexia: Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report (2019-2021):

    Ranked 11th in the category of Best Performing Law Firms in High-Tech; 28th in the category of Best Performing Law Firms Overall; Included in the categories of Most Active Law Firms in High-Tech and Overall (2021)

    Ranked 9th in the category of Best Performing Law Firms in High-Tech; 21st in the category of Best Performing Law Firms Overall; Included in the category of Most Active Law Firms in High-Tech (2020)

    Ranked 6th in the categories of Best Performing Law Firm Overall and Best Performing Law Firm in High-Tech; IIncluded in the categories of Most Active Law Firm and Most Active Law Firm in High-Tech (2019)

  • LAIPLA: Pro Bono Patent Service Award (2020)
  • CLA: Pro Bono Patent Service Award (2020)
  • IPWatchdog.com (2015):

    Ranked among the top most successful firms at obtaining patents in Technology

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