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Terry Rader named “Detroit Area Best Lawyers Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” for 2011

Bloomfield Hills Michigan., October 25, 2010 — Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC, a leading national intellectual property law firm, is pleased to announce that Founding Partner, R. Terrance Rader of Troy, Michigan has been named “Detroit Area Best Lawyers Intellectual Property Lawyer Of The Year” for 2011 by Best Lawyers ®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. . 

After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating a “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 17th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2011) is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.R. Terrance Rader is a Founding Partner of Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC.  He is considered one of the top intellectual property litigators in America. Rader has more than three decades of experience in patent, trademark and trade secret litigation appearing before U.S. District Courts across the United States and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Rader is a former primary examiner for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.  In addition to being honored as “Detroit Area Best Lawyers Intellectual Property Lawyer Of The Year” for 2011, Rader is also listed among The Best Lawyer’s in America, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Michigan Super Lawyers and the Lexis Nexis Martindale Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate R. Terrance Rader on being selected as the ‘Detroit Area Best Lawyers Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year’ for 2011.”

Rader, Fishman & Grauer is a national intellectual property law firm in the United States, ranking annually in the top 10 percent in the number of new patents and trademarks obtained nationwide (IP Today).  The firm is a leader in intellectual property litigation and operates its own state-of-the-art, high-tech courtroom.  Its practice is focused exclusively on patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and associated litigation, licensing, freedom-to-use opinions and due diligence investigations.  Rader, Fishman & Grauer provides intellectual property legal counsel and services all over the world from offices in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Washington, D.C.; Orange County, CA and Tokyo.  Visit www.raderfishman.com