Our Centenary

South Africa’s leading intellectual property law firm, Adams and Adams, celebrates 100 years of legal practice in 2008.
Adams and Adams grew from a general law practice into one widely recognised for its expertise in the field of intellectual property law and in other specialised areas of law, and from a firm with two partners to one currently with 50 partners and 13 senior associates. Read more about our history and Adams & Adams today.
Centenary News
100 years for city law firm
Chris Job is back in the chairman’s seat of city law firm Adams and Adams, which this year celebrates 100 years (Zelda Venter, Pretoria News). Download PDF.
International plaudits for Adams & Adams
Adams and Adams has been acknowledged as a leading firm in the 2008 edition of the Practical Law Company’s annual publication, Which Lawyer. The company is the United Kingdom’s primary provider of legal know-how, transactional analysis and market intelligence for business lawyers.
The publication notes that Adams and Adams has the largest intellectual property law practice in South Africa and lists chairman Chris Job as one of the countries’ leading practitioners in the field, with Alan Smith and Gerard du Plessis listed as highly recommended. Partners Dario Tanziani and Marilyn Krige are identified as recommended practitioners.
In business for 100 years - Adams and Adams celebrates a centenary of practice
South Africa’s leading intellectual property law firm, Adams and Adams, celebrates 100 years of legal practice this year.
Chairman Alan Smith says “We have grown from a small practice in Bureau Lane, Pretoria, in 1908 to the largest South African intellectual property law practice, supported by a strong commercial, civil litigation and property law expertise. We are certainly one of the best-known intellectual property law firms in the world.”
Adams & Adams to mark centenary
Adams & Adams, South Africa’s leading firm in intellectual property law, will next year celebrate its centenary and highlight their successful cases.
