Two Snell & Wilmer Partners Receive Prestigious Global Leaders: Private Practice Recognition from World Trademark Review

PHOENIX – Two Snell & Wilmer partners were recognized by the World Trademark Review (WTR) on its 2025 Global Leaders: Private Practice list. This notable honor, which has entered in its seventh edition this year, distinguishes the world’s most prominent law firm and corporate trademark professionals. The honorees are carefully selected from the competitive WTR 300 and 1000 lists.

Snell & Wilmer’s 2025 honorees are:

J. Damon Ashcraft – Ashcraft is a partner based in the Phoenix office. His trademark practice focuses on trademark protection online and internet governance issues. Ashcraft manages numerous trademark enforcement programs on an international scale. Further, he enforces and defends clients’ trademark rights before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and in various federal and state courts. He is also an active leader within the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) of Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) which has a significant role in Internet governance. Ashcraft was recently re-elected to ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization’s (GNSO) council, to represent the Intellectual Property Constituency.

John J. Dabney – Dabney is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. For over 25 years, he has devoted his practice almost exclusively to the representation of companies in trademark, trade dress, false advertising, and unfair competition litigation under the federal Lanham Act. Dabney has litigated Lanham Act cases in the federal courts in more than 25 different jurisdictions, and he has served as lead counsel in more than 100 federal court actions and in many cases before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. His clients include brand owners in a variety of industries, including food and beverage, medical devices, healthcare, sporting goods and resorts, household goods, financial services, and more.