W|N’s Rick Nydegger Listed Among Best Lawyers in America for 2009

W|N’s founding shareholder and managing director, Rick D. Nydegger, was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers In America® in the specialty for Intellectual Property Law. Mr. Nydegger is one of a distinguished group of attorneys nation wide who have been listed in Best Lawyers for ten years or longer.

Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 2.5 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country. Because no fee or purchase is required, being listed in Best Lawyers is considered to be a singular honor. The Best Lawyers’ annual, advertisement-free publication has been described in The American Lawyer as “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

With some eighty attorneys, W|N ranks among the five largest law firms in Salt Lake City, and specializes in practice areas including computer systems, software, e-commerce and information technology; electronics and electrical engineering; pharmaceutical, neutraceutical, chemical, biotechnology, and medical and life science technologies; physics and optics; mechanics and mechanical engineering; alternative energy; agricultural sciences; IP licensing; and complex IP litigation, interpartes conflicts and mediation and arbitration.