K&L Gates LLP is an American multinational corporation law firm based in the United States,with international offices in Asia,Australia,Europe,the Middle East,and South America. Its namesake firms are Kirkpatrick &Lockhart,a Pittsburgh-based firm founded as Kirkpatrick,Pomeroy,Lockhart &Johnson in 1946,and Preston Gates &Ellis,a Seattle firm founded in 1883 whose prominent partners included William H. Gates Sr.,the attorney,philanthropist,and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Kirkpatrick &Lockhart merged with Preston Gates in 2007 to form K&L Gates,LLP.
Kaye Scholer was a law firm founded in 1917 by Benjamin Kaye and Jacob Scholer. The firm had more than 450 attorneys in nine offices located in the cities of Chicago,Frankfurt,London,Los Angeles,New York City (headquarters),Shanghai,Palo Alto,Washington,D.C.,and West Palm Beach.
Marvell Technology,Inc. is an American company,headquartered in Santa Clara,California,which develops and produces semiconductors and related technology. Founded in 1995,the company had more than 7,000 employees as of 2023,with over 10,000 patents worldwide,and an annual revenue of $5.9 billion for fiscal 2023.
Winston &Strawn LLP is an international law firm. Headquartered in Chicago,it has nearly 800 attorneys in ten offices in the United States and six offices in Europe and Asia. Founded in 1853,it is one of the largest and oldest law firms in Chicago.
Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp.,also known as Lucent Technologies Inc. v. Gateway Inc.,was a long-running patent infringement case between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft litigated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and appealed multiple times to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Alcatel-Lucent was awarded $1.53 billion in a final verdict in August 2007 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego. The damages award was reversed on appeal in September 2009,and the case was returned for a separate trial on the amount of damages.
William F. Lee is an American intellectual property and commercial litigation trial attorney. As co-managing partner of WilmerHale,Lee was the first Asian-American to lead a major American law firm. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation,the governing board of Harvard University.
Duane Morris LLP is a law firm headquartered in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1904 as Duane,Morris,Heckscher,&Roberts,and has offices in the United States,London,Singapore,Vietnam,Oman,Myanmar,Shanghai,and Taiwan. In addition to legal services,Duane Morris has independent affiliates in other disciplines.
Reed Smith LLP is a global law firm with more than 1,500 lawyers in 30 offices throughout the United States,Europe,the Middle East and Asia.
Gibson,Dunn &Crutcher LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Los Angeles,California. Founded in 1890,the firm includes approximately 1,400 attorneys and 1,000 staff located in 20 offices around the world,including North and South America,Europe,Asia,and the Middle East. The firm is known for its litigation practice,and in particular its strength in appellate law.
Lucy Haeran Koh is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Koh previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 2010 to 2021. She also served as a California state court judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2008 to 2010. She is the first Korean American woman to serve on a federal appellate court in the United States.
James Rodney Gilstrap is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. He is notable for presiding over more than one quarter of all patent infringement cases filed in the nation and is often referred to by various sources as the country's single "busiest patent judge."
Keker,Van Nest &Peters LLP is a litigation boutique located in San Francisco,California,founded in 1978. The firm's areas of practice include intellectual property,professional liability,class actions,wrongful termination defense,general contract and commercial litigation,antitrust,white collar crime,and appellate.
Elizabeth Ann Wolford is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. She is the first female judge to serve in the Western District. She is the first female to be chief judge of the Western District of New York.
Robert William Schroeder III is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Kara Farnandez Stoll is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Susan Rose Paradise Baxter is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Levy Konigsberg is an American-based law firm that was established in 1985. The company is known for a number of high-profile cases in the United States. Its practice areas include asbestos litigation,qui tam,lead poisoning,sexual abuse,tobacco litigation,medical malpractice,and negligence. In 2015,Levy Konigsberg was recognized as one of the 50 Law Firms in the 2015 Elite Trial Lawyers list by The National Law Journal.
Christopher A. Seeger is an American lawyer who specializes in multidistrict mass tort and class action litigation. He received the most multidistrict litigation (MDL) appointments of any lawyer between 2016 and 2019 according to an 2020 ALM study. Seeger is a founding partner of the firm Seeger Weiss LLP.
Ada Elene Brown is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is a former trial judge of the Dallas County courts and a former Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas. She is the first African-American woman federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate. She is also the first African American woman to sit as a federal judge in the 140- year-history of the Northern District of Texas. A citizen of the Choctaw Nation,Brown is also one of six actively serving Native American federal judges of 673 federal district court judges. When appointed to the federal bench,Brown became the only woman judge in the 233-year history of the Choctaw Nation to serve as a federal judge.
Tiffany Patrice Cunningham is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
