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2015 Southwest Super Lawyer

Wednesday, August 12th, 2015

Scottsdale, Ariz. – The Noblitt Group is pleased to announce that Daniel J. Noblitt has been selected to the 2015 Southwest Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive, and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.

The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country, including Phoenix Magazine. For more information about Super Lawyers, visit SuperLawyers.com.

Scottsdale-based Noblitt earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and has been practicing intellectual property law for over 25 years. Mr. Noblitt’s background includes broad-based intellectual property counseling, patent preparation and prosecution, trademark and copyright registration, trade secret and trade dress protection, technology transfer, and related litigation, licensing, and counseling.

The Noblitt Group Ranked 2015 Best Law Firm

Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

Scottsdale, Ariz. – The Noblitt Group is pleased to announce that our firm has been listed as Best Law Firm in the 2015 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” The firm received a Phoenix Metropolitan “Tier 1” ranking in copyright law and patent law, as well as national rankings in trademark and copyright law.  Firms included in the 2015 “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.

“For thirty years, U.S. News has provided consumers with accurate, in-depth information and rankings of a wide range of institutions,” says Tim Smart, Executive Editor of U.S. News & World Report. “Law firms are an integral part of our rankings and a natural accompaniment to the law school rankings.”

The 2015 rankings are based on the highest number of participating firms and highest number of client ballots on record. To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the US. Attorney Daniel J. Noblitt was recently named 2014 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” . Over 17,000 attorneys provided almost 600,000 law firm assessments, and almost 7,500 clients provided more than 40,000 evaluations.  For more information on Best Lawyers, please visit bestlawyers.com.

“For five years, we have combined massive amounts of hard data with peer reviews and client assessments to develop our law firm rankings,” says Steven Naifeh, CEO and Co-Founder of Best Lawyers. “Increasingly, clients tell us that ours are the most thorough, accurate, and helpful rankings of law firms available anywhere.”

For over 10 years, The Noblitt Group continues its commitment in providing its clients with excellent counsel in the field of intellectual property and technology law.  The firm has considerable scientific, technical, and legal expertise that spans a wide range of disciplines, including electrical engineering, computers, biotechnology, aerospace, and mechanical engineering.

Best Lawyer 2015

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

Scottsdale, Ariz. – The Noblitt Group is pleased to announce that Daniel Noblitt was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America © 2015 in the fields of copyright law, intellectual property litigation, patent litigation, patent law, and trademark law.

Mr. Noblitt, founder of Scottsdale’s The Noblitt Group, PLLC, has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2011, was ranked as Phoenix’s 2012 Copyright Law “Lawyer of the Year” and 2014 Patent Law “Lawyer of the Year”.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey. Over 52,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore 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.”

Daniel Noblitt has been practicing intellectual property law for over 25 years. He has an extensive background including broad-based intellectual property counseling, patent preparation and prosecution, trademark and copyright registration, trade secret and trade dress protection, technology transfer, and related litigation, licensing, and counseling.

Daniel Noblitt named 2014 Top Lawyer

Wednesday, November 19th, 2014

Scottsdale, Ariz. – The Noblitt Group would like to congratulate Daniel Noblitt on being recognized as a “Top Lawyer” by AZ Business Magazine. Mr. Noblitt has been listed for his success in the area of Intellectual Property.

AZ Business Magazine’s 2014 top lawyer list was created after a survey was sent throughout the valley, asking law firms to nominate their best attorneys from more than 20 different categories for consideration. Those nominees were then evaluated by a panel made up of industry experts to determine the exclusive Top Lawyers List.

Daniel J. Noblitt Named as 2014 ILO Client Choice Award Recipient

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

The Noblitt Group, PLLC is pleased to announce that Daniel J. Noblitt has been named exclusive recipient of the 2014 Client Choice Award from Lexology, an international legal intelligence service, and International Law Office (ILO) in the area of Intellectual Property/Patents in Arizona.

Since 2005, the Client Choice awards have recognized those law firms and partners around the world that stand apart for excellent client service. The criteria for the awards focus on the ability to add real value to clients’ business above and beyond other players in the market. Uniquely, these awards survey senior corporate counsel only, with this year’s winners chosen from a pool of more than 2,000 individual client assessments. Only four attorneys were selected from Arizona.

Scottsdale-based Noblitt is ILO’s exclusive winner of the Client Choice award for Intellectual Property/Patents in Arizona. Noblitt’s practice focuses on helping clients identify and protect intellectual property with an emphasis on strategically building patent portfolios and optimizing intellectual property assets. He is regularly recognized as one of Arizona’s leading intellectual property practitioners. Noblitt was also the winner of the Client Choice Award in 2013.

To learn more about the awards, visit the Client Choice site at www.clientchoice.com.

 

Gary Newson Recognized as 2014 Rising Star

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

Attorney Gary Newson has been named a 2014 Rising Star by Super Lawyers. Newson is certified as a patent attorney by the U.S.  Patent and Trademark Office. He focuses his practice on patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, false advertising, and unfair competition matters. He has substantial experience in managing domestic and international patent and trademark portfolios, and assists clients in developing strategies for protecting technology and trademarks.

He earned his law degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, and graduated from University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. Before his legal career, Newson was a reliability engineer at Aviation Communication and Surveillance Systems and Cessna Aircraft Company.

Rising Stars” recognizes top up-and-coming attorneys who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing 10 or fewer years. No more than 2.5 percent of lawyers in each market are named to the Rising Stars list.

The Noblitt Group Named as 2014 “Best Law Firm”

Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

Scottsdale, Ariz. – The Noblitt Group would like to announce that the firm has been named 2014 Best Law Firm by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers ®, and has been ranked as a Tier 1 firm in the Phoenix Metropolitan area for copyright law, patent law, trademark law, and patent litigation. The firm also received a tier 2 ranking in intellectual property litigation in the Phoenix Metropolitan area, as well as national tier 2 ranking in trademark law, and national tier 3 ranking in copyright law.

The 2014 Edition of Best Law Firms includes rankings in 74 national practice areas and 120 metropolitan-based practice areas.  Achieving a ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise. The firms listed in The U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from their clients and peers.  To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America©, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S. Daniel Noblitt is listed in The Best Lawyers in America© and was recently named 2014 Lawyer of the Year in Patent Law.

Since 2002, the Noblitt Group continues to provide excellent counsel and service to clients in the field of intellectual property and technology, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related licensing, contracts, and litigation. The firm is made up of attorneys who hold at least one degree in a technical discipline, such as electrical engineering, computers, biotechnology, aerospace, and mechanical engineering.

Daniel Noblitt Named 2014 Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” in Patent Law

Friday, December 13th, 2013

Scottsdale, Ariz. – The Noblitt Group would like to congratulate Daniel Noblitt on being awarded Best Lawyers’ 2014 Phoenix Patent Law “Lawyer of the Year”.

Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer-review assessments.

Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism, and their integrity.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence.

Mr. Noblitt has been practicing intellectual property law for over twenty years. His background includes broad-based intellectual property counseling, patent preparation and prosecution, trademark and copyright registration, trade secret and trade dress protection, technology transfer, and related litigation, licensing and counseling.

2013 U.S. News and World Report Best Law Firm

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Scottsdale, Ariz. – The Noblitt Group is pleased to announce it has been selected as a Best Law Firm by U.S. News and World Report for 2013.  The Noblitt Group was recognized as a First-Tier firm in several areas, including Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, and Intellectual Property Litigation.

Inclusion in the “Best Law Firms” listing is based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes data collection, evaluation and feedback from thousands of clients, lawyers and law firm representatives spanning a wide range of practice areas nationwide.

Earlier this year, Daniel J. Noblitt, the firm’s founder, was again selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

The methodology for the 2012-2013 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings involved surveying law firm clients, leading lawyers and law firm managers, partners and associates, marketing managers and recruiting officers.  All of the feedback was combined into an overall score for each firm.

U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers have released the 2013 “Best Law Firms” rankings, providing a comprehensive view of the U.S. legal profession that is unprecedented both in the range of firms represented and in the range of qualitative and quantitative data used to develop the rankings.

The third edition of these rankings features law firms given consistently impressive performance ratings by clients and peers. Achieving a high ranking is a special distinction that signals a unique combination of excellence and breadth of expertise. The rankings in their entirety are posted online at http://bestlawfirms.usnews.com.

About The Noblitt Group: Founded in 2002 in Scottsdale, The Noblitt Group continues in its commitment to providing exceptional counsel in the field of intellectual property and technology law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related licensing, contracts, and litigation. To provide the best possible service to its clients, each of the firm’s attorneys holds at least one degree in a technological discipline, including electrical engineering, computers, biotechnology, aerospace, and mechanical engineering.  The firm represents great companies across a wide range of industries and stages of growth—from start-ups to FORTUNE 50 corporations.  Additional information is available at www.ngtechlaw.com.

2013 Go-To Law Firm for the Top 500 Companies

Monday, January 28th, 2013

Scottsdale, Ariz. – The Noblitt Group is pleased to announce it has been named as a “2013 Go-To Law Firm for the Top 500 Companies,” an honor that places the firm in an elite group that delivers exceptional work for the Fortune 500. The Noblitt Group was recognized for its work in Intellectual Property.

Each year as part of its research, American Lawyer Media, publisher of Corporate Counsel and other top industry journals, gathers data from Fortune 500 Companies’ General Counsel, and through research in key databases, to determine which law firms they rely upon for outside counsel in a number of key practice areas. This research is summarized in a guide that is distributed to In-House Counsel at all Fortune 500 Companies as well as leading business executives and law firms throughout the U.S.