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Six Seed IP partners selected to 2020 Washington Super Lawyers List
Seed IP partners Dave Carlson, Kevin Costanza, Bill Ferron, Karl Hermanns, Kevan Morgan, and Brooke Quist have been selected as 2020 Washington Super Lawyers, as published in the Summer 2020 issue of Thomson Reuters’ Washington Super Lawyers. Since 1991, Super Lawyers has provided a yearly listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Lawyers honorees are nominated and selected through a detailed process based on nomination points, research points and peer-review points. Super Lawyers is published as a special supplement in leading newspapers and in city and regional magazines across the country.
All six Super Lawyers honorees specialize in intellectual property law. Karl is an attorney within Seed IP’s Biotechnology, Chemistry & Pharmaceuticals Group; Kevin and Bill are attorneys within the Mechanical Engineering, Trademark, and IP Enforcement & Litigation Groups; Dave, Kevan, and Brooke are attorneys within Seed IP's Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Group, with Dave and Brooke also being members of the IP Enforcement & Litigation Group. Additionally, Bill is a member of Seed IP’s Mediation Group.
Seed IP proudly congratulates our six attorneys who have been selected to the 2020 Washington Super Lawyers list:
Dave Carlson | Partner, Seed IP Law Group
Kevin Costanza | Partner, Seed IP Law Group
Bill Ferron | Partner, Seed IP Law Group
Karl Hermanns | Partner, Seed IP Law Group
Kevan Morgan | Partner, Seed IP Law Group
Brooke Quist | Partner, Seed IP Law Group
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