Six Irell & Manella LLP partners have been listed on the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal's list of the top 100 lawyers in California in the last two years. The Irell lawyers on the list include partners in both the Los Angeles and Newport Beach offices. The Daily Journal's list of the top 100 lawyers in the state includes not only lawyers in private practice, but also judges, academics, and government and public interest lawyers, making the number of Irell lawyers on the list of 100 even more remarkable. 

The Best Lawyers in America ranks lawyers based on peer reviews from lawyers at other firms. Because Irell has more lawyers on the Best Lawyers' list than any other firm in a number of practice areas, Best Lawyers consistently ranks Irell's Los Angeles and Newport Beach offices as #1 in their region for those practice areas. Irell's Los Angeles office is ranked #1 in Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Information Technology, and Tax.  Irell's Newport Beach office is ranked as #1 in Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Insurance, Real Estate, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

An Irell partner is consistently listed in The Hollywood Reporter's list of  "Top 100 Power Lawyers" in Hollywood.

Many Irell partners have appeared on the Daily Journal's list of "Top Lawyers Under 40" during their careers.

Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners have written the following about Irell's litigators:

• "superb written work and trial skills" (Chambers on Irell entertainment litigators)

• "powerful trial lawyers" (Chambers on Irell white-collar defense lawyers)

• "top to bottom, the best patent litigation practice in the county" (Legal 500 on Irell patent litigators)