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Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. In the U.S., Best Lawyers publishes an annual referral guide, The Best Lawyers in America, which includes 29,575 attorneys in 78 specialties, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Chambers just ranked ours as one of the country’s leading business law firms.

Awards aren’t everything in the legal profession. Still, when you have been selected as one of the country’s leading business law firms - as Dickinson Wright has - it tells you something. Especially when you consider that Chambers does such extensive research in every state to determine the best business lawyers in the country.

And when you consider that 11 of our lawyers achieved individual recognition in five featured practice areas, it just substantiates everything we have been known for since 1878 - credibility, creativity, depth of experience and intellectual firepower. Put our reputation to work for you and let us add value to your enterprise.

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Business Technology

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Technology Transfer & Licensing
  • Enterprise software licensing, drafting, and negotiation

  • Software asset management programs

  • Evaluating and securing intellectual property rights

  • "Shrink wrap" and "click through" agreements

  • Counseling on software audits

  • Licensing patents, digital content, technical know-how, and trade secrets

  • Capitalizing patent portfolios

  • Executing field-of-use-cross-licenses


  • Internet & E-Commerce
  • Web site development and hosting agreements

  • Privacy policies

  • Intellectual property consultation

  • Hyperlinking, co-branding, and authorized framing

  • Application service provider (ASP) agreements

  • Encryption issues

  • Domain name and cybersquatting disputes


  • Strategic Alliances & Joint Ventures
  • Joint ventures

  • Joint marketing agreements

  • Joint development agreements and other strategic alliances

  • Development of new ventures based on technology and intellectual assets

  • Service agreements


  • Intellectual Property
  • Patent prosecution

  • Trademark prosecution

  • Copyright registration and infringement opinions

  • Acquisitions and sales of patents

  • Patent validity, enforceability, and infringement opinions

  • Registrability investigations and opinions

  • Litigation of trademark, patent, and copyright infringement

  • Advertising claims


  • General Corporate/Entity Matters
  • Organization and capitalization of business entities

  • Corporate governance

  • Incentive compensation plans

  • Regulatory compliance

  • Shareholder rights

  • Duties and responsibilities of boards of directors

  • Record keeping

  • Conflicts of interest

  • Anti-takeover protections


  • For more information, please contact:
    Brian R. Balow
    248-433-7536 or bbalow@dickinsonwright.com