International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that it had 24 practice areas ranked nationally in the just-released 2020 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® rankings of the “Best Law Firms” (a collaboration between Woodward White, Inc. and U.S. News & World Report).

Of those 24 practice areas, nine Dorsey practices were ranked national tier 1, the highest ranking available.

The practice areas ranked in national tier 1 include:

  • Commercial Litigation
  • Corporate Law
  • Litigation - Antitrust
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Patent
  • Litigation - Securities
  • Patent Law
  • Securities/Capital Markets Law
  • Trademark Law

Another 15 of the Firm’s practice areas were nationally ranked as tier 2 or 3. Please click here to view.

In addition to the national rankings released by U.S. News – Best Lawyers, the publication also released 2020 rankings for individual metropolitan areas. All 13 of the Firm’s U.S. offices were ranked in at least one practice area in the metropolitan rankings, with a total of 125 Dorsey metropolitan practice areas recognized across the nation. 

Firms included in the 2020 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.