LMG Life Sciences named twenty-three Goodwin partners to their annual Life Sciences Stars list honoring the best practitioners in the field. Goodwin was also recognized for excellence in numerous practice areas, and the firm was one of only eight selected as a U.S. Life Cycle firm, a distinction given to law firms with significant practices in nearly all areas covered by LMG Life Sciences.
The following Goodwin practice areas were recognized:
- General Corporate – Highly Recommended
- General Patent Litigation – Highly Recommended
- Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation (Generic) – Highly Recommended
- Licensing & Collaboration – Highly Recommended
- Mergers & Acquisitions – Highly Recommended
- Patent Strategy and Management – Highly Recommended
- Venture Capital – Highly Recommended
- Product Liability & Recall – Recommended
- White – Collar/Government Investigations – Recommended
In addition, twenty-three Goodwin lawyers were recognized as Life Sciences Stars including:
- Deborah Birnbach (White-Collar/Government Investigations)
- Michael Bison (Corporate, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital)
- Elaine Blais (General Patent Litigation)
- Mitchell Bloom (Corporate, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital)
- Kristopher Brown (Corporate, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital)
- Stuart Cable (Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions)
- Marta Delsignore (General Patent Litigation, Patent Strategy & Management)
- Anthony Downs (General Patent Litigation, Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation)
- Joanne Gray (Product Liability)
- Duncan Greenhalgh (Patent Prosecution, Patent Strategy & Management)
- William Harrington (White Collar/Government Investigations)
- David Hashmall (Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation)
- Theresa Kavanaugh (Patent Prosecution, Patent Strategy & Management)
- Douglas Kline (General Patent Litigation)
- Michael Shuster (Patent Prosecution, Patent Strategy & Management)
- Sarah Solomon (Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions)
- Kingsley Taft (Corporate, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital)
- Julie Tibbets (FDA: Pharmaceutical, FDA: Medical Device)
- Daryl Wiesen (General Patent Litigation, Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation)
- Maggie Wong (Corporate, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital)
LMG Life Sciences research involved over 1,000 surveys and interviews with nearly 600 leading attorneys in the United States, as well as a review of public information and feedback from clients within the industry.