Describe your firm’s approach to litigation and your strategy for building successful teams for trials or other matters. We are proud to have built a team of exceptional first-chair trial lawyers who consider ourselves peers, rather than being centered around just one or two rainmakers. With our team-first approach, we are able to rise to any occasion, no matter the size or complexity of the case; on any given day, I may be leading a case or happily carrying my colleague’s bag. We are also intensely focused on developing our next generation of trial lawyers and have the best [intellectual property] litigators in the business, from our technical analysts and young associates to our most senior partners.

Discuss the two biggest intellectual property litigation cases your firm worked on in 2019 and how you reached successful outcomes. We had an exceptional year with more than a dozen notable wins. One was for Janssen (a Johnson & Johnson company) in a patent infringement suit against its blockbuster, multibillion-dollar cancer drug DARZALEX. We were asked to take over the case midstream, implemented and executed a game plan, and secured a complete victory on summary judgment days before trial. Another was for Adobe, on its market-leading Acrobat product. As in the Janssen case, we took over the matter for trial. While plaintiff sought damages up to $150 million, the jury awarded just 1% of that, later reduced to zero on JMOL. We employed our team-first approach in both cases, with multiple first-chair lawyers involved in each, supported by incredibly talented and diverse teams of young partners and associates, who played significant and meaningful roles.