ALM Legal Intelligence

Sample Data

In-House Law Departments at the Leading Technology Companies

This best-selling Guide includes information on:

• General Counsel at the Fortune 500 including contact information;
• Chief In-House Counsel in five practice areas:
• Corporate Transactions
• Litigation
• Labor & Employment
• Intellectual Property
• European Matters;
• The General Counsel's Go-To Law Firms® for each practice area;
• Go-To Law Firm profiles Indexes for cross-referencing including top legal officer by last name and by law school; companies by rank, location and industry; in-house chief counsel by last name and practice area; law firms by location, practice area and the companies who selected them;
• Company information including contact details, Fortune rank, industry, company size and law department size.

 

Methodology/Sources:
How is a firm selected as a Go-To Law Firm?

Data was gathered on each company's primary law firms first by surveys sent to General Counsels at each of the technology companies and second through research in various key databases such as Litigation Monitor, LIVEDGAR, Westlaw, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and others. Criteria for selection as a Go-To Law Firm were: (1) law firms that were named as a "primary law firm" by a General Counsel at a leading technology company in response to our survey (defined on the survey as "the firms that are on the company's preferred list; the 'go-to law firms' for a specific practice area; firms that handled the most important cases in the previous year; firms used most often; and/or firms with the most billings"); or (2) firms that were either utilized multiple times in a practice area since 2006 and/or counseled the client with respect to a significant transaction. Note that companies may have responded with additional data after the submission due date.