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Top Women Lawyers

May 11, 2011

Rachel Krevans

Morrison & Foerster LLP Location: San Francisco Practice Type: Litigation Practice specialty: Intellectual property



Krevans shot to the top of the profession in 2007 when she defeated a potentially sweeping patent infringement case seeking $205 million in damages from client EchoStar Communications Corp. EchoStar put its trust in Krevans to win at trial despite the bet-the-company stakes.


It took about an hour for the eight Texas jurors to declare the plaintiff's patent invalid - believed to be only the second defense verdict in a patent infringement case in the so-c...

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