Insights

Los Angeles – March 11, 2025: The Daily Journal recognized Crowell & Moring’s victory in Mass v. The Regents of the University of California as one of the “Top Verdicts of 2024.”

Washington – March 7, 2025: The Burton Awards honored Crowell & Moring partner Joanna Rosen Forster, counsel Jacob Canter and Derick D. Dailey, and associate Matt Menezes with Law360’s Distinguished Legal Writing Award for their article discussing a Supreme Court ruling and its impact on social media companies. The award will be presented at a gala reception at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. on Monday, May 19.

Washington – February 18, 2025: Chambers and Partners has ranked 12 Crowell & Moring practice groups and 17 individual lawyers in the Chambers Global 2025 guide.

San Francisco – January 6, 2025: The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) elected Crowell & Moring’s Jacob Canter to the Barristers Club Board of Directors. The Barristers Club is a community of BASF attorneys in their first 10 years of practice, as well as law students.

San Francisco – November 8, 2024:  Marshall Wace led Inquis Medical’s oversubscribed $40 million Series B round, along with participation from existing investors, including ShangBay Capital, Yu Star, EnPointe Ventures, and Pierre Lamond.

San Francisco – October 24, 2024: Crowell & Moring advised ReFocus AI, an insurtech leader in retention management software, with the successful closing of a strategic funding round led by Avondale Insurtech Ventures, a Chicago-based firm that focuses on insurance startups. ReFocus AI seeks to revolutionize the insurance industry by providing predicative analytics technology to help insurance carriers, brokers, MGAs, and independent agencies improve policyholder retention with efficient, automated solutions. 

The Daily Journal named Crowell & Moring’s Molly A. Jones to its 2024 “Top 40 Under 40” list. The annual list recognizes prominent lawyers in California under the age of 40. 

The Daily Journal has named Crowell & Moring’s Warrington Parker as a Top Artificial Intelligence Lawyer in California in 2024. The annual list recognizes California lawyers who have made significant contributions to artificial intelligence law over the past year.

The Daily Journal has named Crowell & Moring’s Molly A. Jones as a Top Intellectual Property Lawyer in California in 2024. The annual list recognizes California lawyers who have made significant contributions to intellectual property law over the past year.

A Crowell & Moring Corporate team represented Stell Engineering in an oversubscribed $4 million seed round led by Long Journey Ventures and Cyan and Scott Banister, raising money that will help the early stage software startup continue to scale their team, refine their product, and create new supply chain functions. Third Prime, Wischoff Ventures, Urban Innovation Fund, Forward Deployed VC, and Fulcrum Venture Group also participated in the seed round, along with a group of angel investors.

Rafi Azim-Khan has joined Crowell & Moring to lead the firm’s Digital Law practice in Europe and advise clients on cybersecurity, data privacy, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, e-commerce and advertising and marketing matters.

Crowell & Moring ranked nationally in 20 practice areas in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” In addition, the firm was ranked in 39 metropolitan categories.