The Legal 500, the world’s largest legal advice directory, recommends 8 Maiwald lawyers in its 2024 EMEA ranking. In addition, the firm was ranked in the three categories “Patent Litigation: Patent Lawyers”, “Patent Litigation: Solicitors” and “Patent Prosecution”.
In order to obtain the results, Legal 500 does not only evaluate the work performed, the experience, competence and areas of specialization of the employees, but also evaluates the opinions of the clients. We are therefore delighted that the firm and the team have once again scored highly and have been awarded by Legal 500.
Recommended lawyers of the firm are:
Dr. Alexander Schmitz, Dr. Derk Vos, Dr. Eva Ehlich, Dr.-Ing. Sophie Ertl, Dr. Christian Meyer, Heike Röder-Hitschke, Dr. Marco Stief, Dr. Dirk Bühler
Other key lawyers are:
Alexander Ortlieb, Dr. Andreas Ledl, Dr. Christian Pioch, Lutz Kietzmann, Dr. Martin Huenges, Angela Zumstein, Dr. Naho Fujimoto, Dr. Christian Schäflein, Dr. Annelie Wünsche
References:
- ‘Excellent understanding of technology and business, very professional way of working, excellent lawyers with a high level of competence.’
- ‘Marco Stief: Very good litigation and licensing lawyer.’
- ‘Alexander Schmitz: Outstanding patent attorney with outstanding expertise in the areas of physics/mechanics/electrical engineering/software/algorithms.’
- ‘The Maiwald team is very professional and highly qualified.’
- ‘The team is a partner at eye level. Patent law issues are always viewed against the background of our business and research development. We know that the advice we get from Maiwald does not come from an external consultant, but from someone who is inside our company.’
- ‘Derk Vos and Marco Stief are both extremely pleasant colleagues who know the market like the back of their hand and are very well connected. Derk Vos advises with an impressive mix of time efficiency and brilliance in terms of content.’
- ‘Maiwald impresses with its experience, unusually high communicative skills (which is particularly helpful in resolving disputes), efficiency and deep technical knowledge. The team is diverse, which is not common in this area, and contributes to fabulous results in many projects.
- ‘The firm is paperless, even before Corona. This shows a foresight that can also be observed over and over again elsewhere.’
- ‘What is special is their technology-oriented handling of matters, without having to excessively deal with formal issues.’
- ‘Partners at eye level, patent issues are always viewed against the background of our business and research development. We know that Maiwald’s advice does not come from an external consultant, but from someone who puts themselves in our shoes.’
- ‘Andreas Ledl and Eva Dörner are not only top-class experts, but also have a particular instinct for the employees involved.’
- The team is very well organised, very responsive and always of very good quality.’
- Very good understanding of legal trends, very good advice.’
- ‘Very good, sound and at the same time pragmatic advice. Derk Vos has extremely good industry knowledge, knows all current international parallel and ECJ proceedings and is very well connected. His responsiveness combined with excellent thematic quality is impressive. It is a great pleasure to work with him.’
Here you can find the Legal 500 EMEA 2024 Ranking.
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