Contact: John Skilton, Madison Office Managing Partner
608.663.7460
Julie Kaplan, Media Relations Manager
310.788.3287
MADISON, WISC. – September 7, 2011– Perkins Coie is proud to announce that two attorneys in its Madison office were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C. The firm was also Top-Listed in Wisconsin in the area of Copyright Law.
“We are pleased to be recognized with this honor from Best Lawyers,” said John Skilton, Madison Office Managing Partner. “It is very rewarding to be acknowledged by our peers.”
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 41,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
Perkins Coie Madison attorneys named as 2012 Best Lawyers include:
Timothy W. Burns (2007)
Insurance Law
John S. Skilton (1987)
Appellate Law
Commercial Litigation
Copyright Law
Intellectual Property Litigation
Patent Law
Patent Litigation
(Year) First year the lawyer was listed.
(*) Lawyers who are listed for the first time in Best Lawyers.
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