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Editorial note on scope: Perkins Coie LLP is a large national law firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with a Phoenix office. This profile covers Stephen Brookman’s individual Phoenix-based intellectual property practice within that larger firm, not Perkins Coie’s national operations as a whole.
At a Glance — Stephen A. Brookman, Perkins Coie LLP
| FIRM | Perkins Coie LLP — Phoenix office (firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington) |
| ATTORNEY | Stephen A. Brookman |
| OFFICE | 2525 E. Camelback Road, Suite 500, Phoenix |
| PRACTICE FOCUS | Patent litigation and intellectual property law, with a technical background in aerospace engineering |
| FEE MODEL | Not specified on public materials; typical of BigLaw hourly billing, confirm directly |
| CONTACT | perkinscoie.com |
Origin
Stephen Brookman brings an unusually technical pre-law background to his IP practice: a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland (2006), graduate coursework in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and work experience as an engineer at Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company before law school. He earned his J.D. cum laude from Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in 2012, with a Certificate in Law, Science, and Technology specializing in Intellectual Property, and served as Articles Editor for Jurimetrics, the school’s law-science-technology journal. Before private practice, he worked as a patent examiner at the USPTO itself and as a student attorney in ASU’s Patent Law Clinic — meaning he has seen patent applications from the examiner’s side of the desk, not just the applicant’s.
Practice Areas
Brookman’s practice centers on patent litigation and broader intellectual property law. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Arizona and the District of Colorado.
Track Record
We did not locate an itemized table of specific case outcomes or verdicts attributed to Brookman individually on the pages reviewed. As a BigLaw associate-level attorney (per his 2012 J.D. and current recognition tier), his public track record is still developing relative to more senior name partners profiled elsewhere in this category.
Client Voice
We did not locate individually attributed, verbatim client testimonials for Brookman specifically; Perkins Coie’s institutional client base (Fortune 500 and other large corporate clients typical of national firms) is generally not represented through public consumer-style reviews the way smaller boutique practices are.
Community
His prior work as a legal extern at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix — a nonprofit biomedical research institute — is documented, specific professional community involvement rather than generic marketing language.
Recognition
Brookman was recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America 2025 for Intellectual Property Law — a distinct, junior-attorney-focused Best Lawyers designation from the flagship “Best Lawyers” list, worth noting as a different (and less senior) tier of the same peer-review process. No Arizona State Bar Board of Legal Specialization certification was identified; Arizona does not offer one specific to IP law.
Arizona Legal Backdrop
Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are primarily governed by federal law administered through the USPTO and U.S. Copyright Office, not Arizona state statutes. Patent litigation specifically proceeds in federal district court — for Arizona matters, typically the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, with appeals going to the Federal Circuit rather than the Ninth Circuit for patent-specific issues. This is general information, not legal advice.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Stephen Brookman’s genuine differentiator is his technical background — an aerospace engineer and former USPTO patent examiner litigating patents gives him a vantage point most attorneys don’t have, and his Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recognition reflects real, if still-developing, peer standing. The trade-off of practicing at a firm the size of Perkins Coie — headquartered in Seattle with dozens of offices nationally — is that clients are retaining a large institutional firm’s resources and rate structure rather than a boutique’s personal, founder-led attention; a prospective client should weigh that scale against their specific need and budget.
Methodology & Sourcing
Sourced from Perkins Coie’s own attorney biography page for Stephen Brookman, Best Lawyers’ individual listing, Avvo’s attorney profile, and FindLaw’s directory listing. Awesome Attorneys did not contact Perkins Coie or Brookman directly in the preparation of this profile.
Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice
Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal-directory publisher. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, reviewed, or approved by Perkins Coie LLP or Stephen Brookman prior to publication.