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Washington – August 17, 2023: The 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 47 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 41 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

Washington – August 18, 2022: The 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 54 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 32 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

Washington – August 19, 2021: The 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 53 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 13 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.” The publication also named partner William H. Frankel the Best Lawyers 2022 Copyright Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Chicago.

In a March 30, 2023 decision in Wash World, Inc. v. Belanger Inc., No. 19-C-1562, a case involving infringement of a patent relating to a vehicle spray car washer with a lighted spray arm, Judge William C. Griesbach of the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied a patentee’s motion for treble damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284 of the $10,060,000 jury award after the jury had found the accused infringer willfully infringed. However, the court granted the patentee’s motion for attorney’s fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285, finding the case to be exceptional. The court’s award of attorney’s fees was based, in part, on a dismissive statement by the infringer’s corporate representative and president overheard in the courtroom shortly after the jury’s verdict.