›Direct answer & research summary
Sartori & Partners applies a weighted methodology combining practising-lawyer opinion — more than 10,000 lawyers interviewed — with monthly market surveys. The Salt Lake City Patents board as of July 2026 comprises: Dorsey & Whitney, Kirton McConkie, Lowenstein Sandler, Ray Quinney & Nebeker.
01 — The ranking
The Salt Lake City Patents board
This board maps the best Patents law firms in Salt Lake City into worded tiers as of July 2026. Each band is an editorial judgement of Patents standing in Salt Lake City; within a tier no firm outranks another, and monthly order is a locator, not a league table.
Market leaders on this board are the firms that anchor high-stakes Patents work — patent prosecution, portfolio strategy and patent enforcement mandates — in Salt Lake City. Placement is a worded judgement, never a numeric rank.
Firms here maintain a clear, busy Patents profile in Salt Lake City. The label is editorial; within-tier order rotates and carries no hierarchy.
All counts are shown as bands, never precise headcounts. Notable firms sit outside the tiers by design: verified minimal presence, not assessed at full tier depth.
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The evidence behind these tiers is the same intelligence we use to run retained searches for partners, groups and senior associates.
02 — Evidence, methodology & sources why each firm · how tiers are set · sources · change log · verified 23 Jul 2026 · next review 23 Aug 2026
Firm evidence
Dorsey & Whitney
Dorsey & Whitney is placed in market leaders for Patents in Salt Lake City. Public mapping (banded): 10–24 attorneys, major local depth, ≈5 partners · 0 counsel · <5+ associates. Evidence gates — office (G1) PASS, local practice (G2) PASS, recent signal (G3) PASS. The placement carries no numeric score.
Strongest mapped work
Public hiring signal
Hiring signal: FLAT — no public hiring change detected in the mapping window.
Limits of this assessment
- —A tier is Sartori’s editorial opinion, not a fact about the firm or a client-satisfaction measure.
- —Facts are mapped from public sources and shown as bands; they lag reality by weeks or months.
- —No third-party legal-directory band is used as an input.
Sources for this entry
- Locations | Dorseyfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
- Super Lawyers Recognizes 24 Dorsey Attorneys in Boise, Missoula, and Salt Lake Cityfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
- Super Lawyers Recognizes 24 Dorsey Attorneys in Boise, Missoula, and Salt Lake Cityfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
Methodology
How tiers are assigned
Deterministic public-footprint core (local depth, practice share, seniority mix, public hiring momentum), computed relative to this market's own distribution. Tier placement is derived from this public mapped data; a per-firm public-source ledger is compiled for firms in the annual research pass and applies to those firms' factual claims, not to tier membership. No third-party legal-directory bands are used as an input.
Market scope
1–4 firms earn a tier in Salt Lake City within this scope (banded).
Disclosures
Firm names used nominatively (factual). All counts shown as bands, never precise headcounts. No firm logos. Report an error via the site contact form.
Sources & change log
- 1 Locations | Dorseyfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
- 2 Super Lawyers Recognizes 24 Dorsey Attorneys in Boise, Missoula, and Salt Lake Cityfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
- 3 Super Lawyers Recognizes 24 Dorsey Attorneys in Boise, Missoula, and Salt Lake Cityfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
- 4 Kirton McConkie | Full-Service Law Firm in Utah and Idahofirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-22
- 5 Kirton McConkie | Contact a Top-Rated Law Firmfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-22
- 6 Salt Lake City UT Lawyers at KeyBank Tower | Kirton McConkiefirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-22
- 7 Salt Lake City Law Firm Headquarters | Kirton McConkiefirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-22
- 8 Kirton McConkie Ranked #1 Law Firm by Salt Lake Business Journalfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-22
- 9 Ray Quinney & Nebeker - Ray Quinney & Nebekerfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-22
- 10 About Us - Ray Quinney & Nebekerfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-22
- 11 History - Ray Quinney & Nebekerfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-22
- 12 Ray Quinney & Nebeker - Ray Quinney & Nebekerfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-22
- 13 Ray Quinney & Nebeker — Salt Lake City news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-22
04 — Questions
About this ranking
Who are the best Patents law firms in Salt Lake City?
As of July 2026, Dorsey & Whitney occupy Tier 1 — Market leaders — on Sartori's Salt Lake City Patents board. That band is an editorial judgement of patent-practice depth, seniority mix and market standing; full placement of all 4 visible firms is on this page.
Is Dorsey & Whitney the best Patents law firm in Salt Lake City?
Dorsey & Whitney sits in Tier 1 — Market leaders — of Sartori's Salt Lake City Patents board as of July 2026, alongside . Sartori does not name a single #1: the gap between Tier 1 firms is genuinely unmeasurable, and a numeric score would be false precision.
Which firms have the biggest Patents benches in Salt Lake City?
By mapped Salt Lake City bench, the largest firms on this board are Dorsey & Whitney (10–24 mapped lawyers each), followed by Kirton McConkie, Lowenstein Sandler, Ray Quinney & Nebeker (5–9). All counts are bands, never precise headcounts.
Which Patents teams are hiring in Salt Lake City?
As of July 2026, no firm on this board shows a public hiring signal in the mapping window. Live Salt Lake City mandates are listed on Sartori's jobs board.
What is a Tier 1 law firm?
In Sartori's rankings, Tier 1 — Market leaders — is an editorial judgement expressed in words, never a score: the firms whose Salt Lake City bench depth, seniority mix and market standing set the reference point for the market. As of July 2026 that is Dorsey & Whitney. Within the tier no firm outranks another.
Which are the best law firms in Salt Lake City overall?
Sartori's overall Salt Lake City board groups 16 firms into editorial tiers; as of July 2026 its Tier 1 is Parsons Behle & Latimer, Kirton McConkie. See /firms/in/salt-lake-city/.
This ranking is compiled independently by Sartori from public sources. Tiers are Sartori’s editorial opinion, expressed without numeric scores; firms are named for identification only, no logos are reproduced, and no firm has paid for or approved its placement. No third-party legal-directory band is used as an input. Nothing here is legal advice or a recommendation to instruct counsel.