Clients and Recognition

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Our clients range from large, publicly-traded companies with household names to exciting, venture-backed startups with revolutionary approaches to solving today’s problems in life sciences and biotechnology. We are thrilled to work with each of them.

  • AC Immune SA
  • Avalo Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Bruker Cellular Analysis, Inc.
  • Genomic Health, Inc.
  • Helsinn Healthcare SA
  • Hologic, Inc.
  • Illumina, Inc.
  • Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Ipsen Biopharm Ltd.
  • Ipsen Bioscience, Inc.
  • Joslin Diabetes Center
  • Jounce Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Michelson Found Animals Foundation
  • Regulus Therapeutics Inc.
  • Revitope Ltd.
  • Sanofi Pasteur SA
  • Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.
  • StimLabs LLC
  • SomaLogic, Inc.
  • Ultivue, Inc.

RECOGNITION

Trusted not only by our clients, hear what others say about us.

McNeill PLLC consistently ranks in Vault’s Top 25 Best Midsize Law Firms to Work For. This survey is nationwide and across all practice areas. Our firm also ranked in the top 10 in the Quality of Life categories of Quality of Work, Wellness, and Technology & Innovation. We were also recognized for Satisfaction, Compensation, Transparency, Firm Culture, and Diversity, Hours, Career Outlook, and Associate/Partner Relations.

Emphasizing our depth and expertise in biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law, leading legal resources have continually endorsed McNeill.

IAM recognizes McNeill.

  • Recommended IP firm 2022-2024
  • Ranks four partners as leading professionals: Rebecca M. McNeill; Adam M. Breier, PhD; Elizabeth A. Doherty, PhD; and Rebecca B. Scarr, PhD.

LMG Life Sciences endorses McNeill.

  • Nationally ranked: Recommended Firm for Patent Prosecution in 2017-2023. Recommended for Patent Strategy & Management 2023
  • Shortlisted partners in 2023: Rebecca M. McNeill; Adam M. Breier, PhD; Mary R. Henninger, PhD; and Rebecca B. Scarr, PhD
  • Nationally ranked firm for Patent Prosecution in 2022
  • Named partners as Leading Life Science Lawyers in 2022: Rebecca M. McNeill; Adam M. Breier, PhD; Mary R. Henniger, PhD; and Rebecca B. Scarr, PhD
  • Shortlisted firm for 2022 Patent Strategy Firm of the Year award
  • Shortlisted partners for Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year in 2022: Rebecca M. McNeill and Mary R. Henninger, PhD, in their geographical regions (South and Massachusetts)
  • Ranked four partners as LMG Life Science Stars in 2021: Rebecca M. McNeill; Rebecca B. Scarr, PhD; and Mary R. Henninger, PhD
  • Winner of IP Firm to Watch Award in 2017
  • Recommended firm for Patent Strategy & Management in 2017

Managing Intellectual Property consistently ranks McNeill
as a go-to patent law firm.

  • Recommended firm for Patent Prosecution in Massachusetts in 2024.
  • Four partners named Patent Stars 2024: Rebecca M. McNeill; Elizabeth A. Doherty, PhD; Mary R. Henninger, PhD; and Rebecca B. Scarr, PhD
  • Recommended IP firm, Patent Prosecution 2022
  • Partners named as IP Stars 2022: Rebecca M. McNeill; Elizabeth Doherty, PhD; and Mary R. Henninger, PhD,
  • Founding and Managing Partner, Rebecca M. McNeill named as one of the Top 250 Women Worldwide in IP 2022
  • Notable Firm, Patent Prosecution in 2018-2020
  • Shortlisted for Firm to Watch in 2016 and 2017

McNeill is certified as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation's largest certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the US.

Our attorneys and professionals have the expertise to back you in your matters.