Managing IP has honored Partner Joe Mueller as Litigator of the Year (Massachusetts) at the 2025 Americas Awards. The Managing IP Awards program, now in its 20th year, acknowledges exceptional intellectual property accomplishments and advancements over the past year. This prestigious recognition spans multiple areas of intellectual property practice and encompasses more than 50 jurisdictions, as stated by the publication.

Joe Mueller, co-chair of WilmerHale’s Trial Practice, is a distinguished national trial lawyer with extensive experience in high-profile civil and criminal cases, particularly in intellectual property. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Mueller has been consistently recognized among the top 100 trial lawyers by Benchmark Litigation. He holds a Band One ranking from Chambers for intellectual property and is praised by IAM Patent 1000 as being in the top 1% of US patent trial lawyers of his generation. Mueller was named Intellectual Property Litigator of the Year at the 2025 US Awards by Benchmark Litigation. 

His accolades include being honored as an Intellectual Property Trailblazer by The National Law Journal, Lawyer of the Year for Patent Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation in Massachusetts by Best Lawyers in America, and 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.

On April 24, Managing IP honored the accomplishments of the intellectual property law community in the Americas region during a ceremony held in New York City.

See all winners here.