McAndrews, Held & Malloy and founding partners recognized by Chambers USA as intellectual property law leaders (2008) Chambers USA, a prestigious independent-research-based directory and one of the most widely cited referral sources for legal services in the United States, recognized McAndrews, Held & Malloy as a leading intellectual property law firm in Illinois in 2008, noting that the firm’s “talented and bright litigators” are well reputed for their efforts … and “work hard to present first-class cases.” Firm founding partners George P. McAndrews and Timothy J. Malloy also were recognized by Chambers as two of the state’s top intellectual property attorneys. Chambers noted that McAndrews is regarded as “an outstanding trial lawyer,” and Malloy is widely praised as a “great speaker and terrific trial lawyer.”