Team Factors Intellectual Property Law Award

Winner: James & Wells Intellectual Property

Ron Pol, Director, Team Factors Limited and Ian Finch, Partner, James & Wells Intellectual Property

1st runner up: Duncan Cotterill Lawyers

2nd runner up: Lowndes Associates

FINALISTS:

AJ Park
Anderson Lloyd
Duncan Cotterill Lawyers
James & Wells Intellectual Property
Kensington Swan
Lowndes Associates

Criteria:
The winning firm, lawyer, or barrister will:

provide excellence in client service
possess specialist expertise in advising across a broad range of IP law and practice issues, which may include:
- commercial applications of IP assets
- design
- copyright
- trademarks and patents
- enforcement and prosecution of IP rights
- minimising risk of IP infringement

Award Sponsor:

Team Factors helps organisations maximise the value of legal services, and helps firms transition their client focus to a more powerful client perspective.

Team Factors also uses a full suite of legal market intelligence including the ACLA/CLANZ Legal Department Benchmarking Report (the leading trans-Tasman resource on how corporate and government legal consumers operate, and how they select and manage lawyers), New Zealand’s Online Legal Salary Calculator, and extensive legal department and legal industry metrics, and The Business of Law 2009 – described as "the latest, most comprehensive report on the state of the business of law in New Zealand".