Susman Godfrey has been recognized for its intellectual property litigation work with Law360’s annual Intellectual Property Practice Group of the Year award. Honored for groundbreaking work related to copyright, patent and trade secret work in 2025, lawyers at Susman Godfrey secured over two billion dollars in IP litigation wins in the past 12 months and continued to make headlines for their landmark work.
“There are few firms out there that have our combination of depth of trial experience and experience litigating plaintiff’s side and defense side cases,” said partner Amanda Bonn, who was profiled in the feature story and, as co-lead counsel, won a $425 million jury verdict for a class of millions of Plaintiffs who allege that Google collects users’ Internet and application activity even when users turn Google’s “Web & App Activity” button off.
The feature also discusses the “historic” copyright infringement action Bartz v. Anthropic, where lawyers from Susman Godfrey secured a $1.5 billion settlement for rightsholders whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirated databases. “We have been at the forefront of developing, I would say, the piracy-based copyright infringement model that [U.S. District] Judge [William] Alsup adopted in the case and that we’re also litigating in other cases,” said partner Justin Nelson, who is also included in the feature and served as lead counsel to plaintiffs in the precedent-setting matter.
Also in 2025, partners Shawn Rabin and Krysta Pachman secured one of the decade’s largest trial verdicts with their representation of Everly Health in a trademark case related to their COVID-19 tests. After arbitration proceedings over seven days, the arbitrator awarded Everly more than $970 million over alleged contract breaches and trademark misuse.
Read more about Susman Godfrey’s intellectual property work here.
