Advice concerning trade mark negotiation and protection is provided by graduates in law or those having legal qualifications and experience in this area. From the time of its foundation the members of the firm have maintained the highest standards in their fields of technology and in law. These efforts have been widely recognised through awards and appointments going back to the award, in 1931 to L.B. Davies of the Linthicum Foundation Prize by the Northwestern University of Chicago. Today, Davies Collison Cave is one of Australia's leading intellectual property firms. Including the associated legal firm of Davies Collison Cave Solicitors, it has twenty-three partners, seven senior associates, and a number of attorneys, paralegal and qualified technical and scientific staff.
Consultants acting as counsel to the firm include four former partners.
Six partners also practice, as Davies Collison Cave Solicitors, in the fields of litigation, licensing and technology transfer. The partners and senior staff of the firms are all highly qualified in their respective technical fields and several have overseas qualifications and experience. The firms cover all fields of technology, including mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, telecommunications, theoretical and applied physics, organic and inorganic chemistry, materials science, plant and animal biology and genetics and biotechnology. A number of members hold doctoral and postdoctoral degrees in their respective disciplines. Partners of the firms have held, and currently hold senior positions in a number of national and international intellectual property and technology transfer organisations, and have authored many published works in these fields.