Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP is proud to announce that four of its attorneys have been selected as Ones to Watch® by The Best Lawyers in America®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, in its 2027 edition. Bilal Adra and Zachary Sakoi are in the firm’s Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Group, and Michael Chernoff is in the firm’s Mechanical Engineering and IP Litigation & Enforcement Groups. Emily Mae-Yen Ross is a member of the firm's IP Litigation & Enforcement Group.

Ones to Watch® recognitions are given to attorneys who are earlier in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in America. Ones to Watch® recipients typically have been in practice for 5-9 years.Now in its 33rd year, The Best Lawyers in America® recognizes 81,620 lawyers across 151 practice areas and 203 metropolitan and geographic areas, representing the top 5% of practicing attorneys in the market. The seventh edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America® recognizes 25,052 early-career lawyers across 79 practice areas and 198 metropolitan and geographic regions, representing the top 2% of early-career attorneys in the U.S.

The 2027 edition represents the highest level of selectivity in the award’s history.  

The Best Lawyers in America® awards were informed by 3.8 million evaluations from more than 32,000 voting lawyers, contributing to over 30 million historical evaluations. Among this year’s honorees, 4,915 lawyers received “Lawyer of the Year” recognition, awarded to the attorney with the strongest peer feedback within each practice area and metropolitan area.

Elizabeth Petit, Senior Vice President of Research & Product Strategy, states, “Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America carries particular significance because it is earned through the judgment of a lawyer’s professional peers. Each year, thousands of lawyers take the time to evaluate the colleagues they know and respect, creating a research process grounded in the experience of the legal community itself. For the lawyers recognized in the 2027 edition, this distinction reflects an exceptional professional reputation built among those who understand their work best.”

For Ones to Watch, more than 1.3 million evaluations from over 16,000 voting lawyers informed the 2027 results, with a historical total of more than 6.7 million evaluations.

The 2027 release marks the 7th edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America — and we congratulate each of our four attorneys on receiving this accolade!

View the Best Lawyers® profile for Seed IP Law Group here.

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