Over the past six decades, Steptoe has established a reputation for vigorous advocacy in litigation and arbitration, successful representation of clients before governmental agencies, and creative and practical advice in guiding business transactions. The firm has more than 500 lawyers and other professionals in offices in Beijing, Brussels, Century City, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, and Washington.

Steptoe's intellectual property practice includes more than 50 full-time lawyers experienced in the evaluation, acquisition, licensing, and transfer of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret rights, and skilled in litigation in the courts and at federal agencies, including the International Trade Commission (ITC). In 2011, Steptoe was the most active general practice firm at the ITC for Section 337 investigations. Recently, our lawyers have been involved in the highly publicized "smartphone wars" representing Motorola Mobility, Inc. and Samsung in their patent battles at the ITC. Our practice has received recognition from Chambers and Legal 500, and our lawyers were described as among the "The World's Leading Patent Practitioners" in 2012 by Intellectual Asset Magazine. Steptoe's intellectual property clients include multinational manufacturers, information technology companies, a global reservation system, Internet service providers and e-commerce companies, leading energy conglomerates, and global telecommunications companies.