Benchmark Litigation has honored Joe Mueller as the Intellectual Property Litigator of the Year at its 2025 US Awards. These awards recognize the nation’s most distinguished litigators and firms for their exemplary work over the past year. 

Mueller, co-chair of WilmerHale’s Trial Practice, is a top national trial lawyer who has played leading roles in many high-profile and high-stakes trials across the country  He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, the preeminent professional organization for North American trial lawyers, and has repeatedly been ranked among the top 100 trial lawyers in the country according to Benchmark Litigation.  Mueller has trial experience in many civil and criminal areas of law, with particularly deep experience in intellectual property.  Mueller is ranked in Band One by Chambers for intellectual property, and according to IAM Patent 1000, “Joe is in the top 1% of US patent trial lawyers of his generation.” 

Among his many other accolades, Joseph Mueller has been honored as an Intellectual Property Trailblazer by The National Law Journal, named Lawyer of the Year for Patent Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation in Massachusetts by Best Lawyers in America, and is a three-time recipient of Litigation Daily’s “Litigator of the Week” award. He was also a finalist for the 2023 New England Litigator of the Year.