09/22/2005
35 Cooley Godward Attorneys Selected for The Best Lawyers in America
Palo Alto, CA – September 22, 2005 – The 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America selected 35 attorneys from Cooley Godward LLP. Cooley was ranked first among U.S. and California law firms for the number of attorneys listed in the Biotechnology Law category and first among U.S. law firms for the number of attorneys listed in the Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law category.
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which 18,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."
With the addition of 25 new specialties, the twelfth edition of Best Lawyers lists more Cooley Godward lawyers than any previous edition. The Cooley lawyers included in the 2006 guide are listed below, along with the areas of law for which they were selected. This information is also available at www.bestlawyers.com.
Broomfield
- James Linfield – Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Securities Law
- Michael L. Platt – Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Francis Wheeler – Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Palo Alto
Reston
San Diego
San Francisco
*10 Year Honorees
**20 Years