Editor’s Note: This article was written for the December issue of The American Lawyer magazine, prior to Cooley conducting layoffs due to overcapacity in the sector. The work detailed demonstrates the firm’s deep connections to the tech sector, particularly in the start-up space, and why, for the submission period of mid-2020 to mid-2022, it earned the Corporate Practice of the Year award in the Tech/Telecom specialty category.

Practically overnight, Zoom transformed. In a remote environment, daily meeting participants leapt from 10 million to over 300 million. And the enterprise software maker found itself connecting entirely new audiences—children to educators and families to their loved ones in the hospital.