The publishers of the annual Best Law Firms list are recognizing the Caldwell Cassady & Curry trial team following the firm’s recent $445.5 million patent infringement verdict against Samsung in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Caldwell Cassady & Curry is featured in the 2026 edition of Best Law Firms for its expertise in intellectual property and patent trials, earning top-tier rankings in both areas. The firm has been selected multiple times in the annual guide and has won billions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for clients.
Caldwell Cassady & Curry’s Brad Caldwell led an experienced legal team to the unanimous multimillion-dollar verdict for Collision Communications Inc. against Samsung. The jury issued a unanimous verdict based on Samsung’s infringement of wireless communications patents.
Earlier this year, Mr. Caldwell and fellow firm principals Jason Cassady and Austin Curry led VidStream LLC to a $105 million verdict against X Corp./Twitter in a separate patent infringement lawsuit tried in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Both victories included significant contributions from the firm’s Chris Stewart, Justin Nemunaitis, Aisha Mahmood Haley, John Summers, Daniel Pearson, Seth Reich, Adrienne Dellinger, Richard Cochrane, Bjorn Blomquist, James Smith, James Yang, Alexander Gras, and Xu Zhou.
In addition to the Best Law Firms honors, Caldwell Cassady & Curry is recognized in the 2025 PTAB Intelligence Report as one of the Top 50 best-performing and most active firms handling matters before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board since 2000. The report from intellectual property data provider Patexia Inc. also notes the firm’s Hamad Hamad, Justin Nemuanitis, and Richard Cochrane for their individual work before the PTAB.