Nine from Fish & Richardson Named to 2010 Texas Super Lawyers List

The intellectual property Firm of the Year has added another honor to its list of accomplishments with nine Texas attorneys earning spots on the 2010 Texas Super Lawyers list.

The Fish & Richardson attorneys appearing in the 2010 Texas Super Lawyers list are:

• Stephen E. Fox, Dallas
• J. Kevin Gray, Dallas
• David J. Healey, Houston
• Tommy Jacks, Dallas
• M. Brett Johnson, Dallas
• William B. Mateja, Dallas
• Thomas M. Melsheimer, Dallas
• Steven H. Stodghill, Dallas
• Thomas B. Walsh IV, Dallas

Houston principal David J. Healey earned special recognition as one of the Top 100 lawyers in Houston.

"Our strong showing on the Texas Super Lawyers list reflects Fish & Richardson’s high standards for every attorney at the firm," says Mr. Melsheimer, managing principal of the firm’s Dallas office. "We are all extremely proud to be included in this year’s list, especially since the selections are made by other lawyers."

Texas Super Lawyers compiles its annual list of the state’s top attorneys by inviting nominations from more than 70,000 lawyers across Texas. Nominees then are screened by a blue-ribbon panel before final selections are made. Fewer than 5 percent of all Texas lawyers are included in the Texas Super Lawyers list.

This year’s list appears in the October 2010 issue of Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers magazines. Earlier this year, the legal publication Law 360 named Fish & Richardson as the year’s top intellectual property law firm.

Fish & Richardson is a leading global law firm with more than 350 attorneys and technology specialists practicing intellectual property strategy and counseling, intellectual property litigation, and business litigation. Fish does cutting-edge legal work for innovative clients who value their intellectual property. The firm was recently named top patent prosecution firm (Managing Intellectual Property, February 2010), was honored as an IP Firm of the Year (Law360, January 2010), and named a finalist for top IP Litigation Department of the Year (American Lawyer, January 2010). Fish handles more patent litigation than any other law firm (IP Law & Business, September 2009), is the number one IP firm for America’s biggest companies (Corporate Counsel, September 2009), and was named the number one firm in the world for PCT filings (Managing Intellectual Property, October 2009). The firm also handled two of the top ten most important IP cases of 2009 (Managing Intellectual Property, January 2010). For more information, visit http://www.fr.com.

For more information about Fish & Richardson, please contact Mike Androvett at 800-559-4534 or mike@androvett.com.