Finnegan Remains a Top Tier Firm in the 2025 Legal 500 Rankings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC—The Legal 500 released its 2025 United States rankings, once again recognizing Finnegan and its attorneys as leaders in intellectual property. The Legal 500 uses various criteria when ranking firms and attorneys but focuses its research on the strength of the team, including partners and associates, and the consistency of quality of the individuals with the teams.  Finnegan is proud to be recognized as a leading firm in six categories in the U.S. market, including Patents: Licensing; Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission); Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage); Patents: Prosecution, including Reexaminations and Post-Grant Proceedings; Trademarks: Litigation; and Trademarks: Non-contentious. In addition to the firm rankings, nearly a dozen Finnegan attorneys were recognized across multiple categories in the 2025 rankings, two of which were named to the Hall of Fame, including:

Hall of Fame
Erika H. Arner (Patents: Prosecution, including Reexaminations and Post-Grant Proceedings)
Danny M. Awdeh (Trademarks: Non-contentious)

Leading Partners
Jeffrey M. Jacobstein (Patents: Prosecution, including Reexaminations and Post-Grant Proceedings)
Mareesa A. Frederick (Patents: Litigation - International Trade Commission)
Brian Kacedon (Patents: Licensing)
Naresh Kilaru (Trademarks: Litigation)
Douglas (Chip) A. Rettew (Trademarks: Litigation)
Mark Sommers (Trademarks: Litigation)

Next Generation Partners
Cory C. Bell (Patents: Prosecution, including Reexaminations and Post-Grant Proceedings)
Gracie K. Mills (Patents: Prosecution, including Reexaminations and Post-Grant Proceedings)

Leading Associates
Patrick J. Rodgers (Trademarks: Litigation)

The complete list of rankings are available here.

Contacts

Erika H. Arner, Managing Partner
erika.arner@finnegan.com

Anand K. Sharma, Chair
anand.sharma@finnegan.com

About Finnegan
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP is one of the largest IP law firms in the world. From offices in Atlanta, Boston, London, Munich, Palo Alto, Reston, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, and Washington, DC, the firm practices European, German, UK, and U.S. IP law. In addition to services related to all aspects of patent, trademark, and copyright law, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation, Finnegan provides counseling and litigation services in advertising, privacy, and a wide spectrum of additional IP-adjacent commercial matters, including trade secrets, international trade, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, and unfair competition. For additional information on the firm, please visit www.finnegan.com and follow us on LinkedIn.