Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg

California

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Partner: Courtland Reichman
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Quick facts:

Partners : 18
Other qualified practitioners : 26
Total number of lawyers: 44
Practitioners (worldwide) : 44
Languages: English


Who We Are: Founded in October 2018, Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP (RJLF) entered the market as a trial boutique with national reach and a bold ambition to create a new standard for litigation firms. Focusing on high-stakes commercial litigation, intellectual property, and white collar disputes, the firm made national headlines for breaking away from many law firm traditions.  RJLF reinvented the practice of law without the billable hour in favor of fee arrangements that align with client interests. The firm also eliminated two other standard law firm features – the partnership track and lockstep compensation – replacing them with systems that encourage attorneys to advance as quickly as their skills allow. Committed to attracting and retaining top talent, RJLF pays above market.

Diversity is one of RJLF’s founding principles. We believe our diverse talent brings a variety of thoughts, experiences, and perspectives that inevitably improve decision making and communication with our clients, judges, and juries. The firm is majority women-owned and 30% of our firm’s lawyers are racially and/or LGBTQ+ diverse. As part of the firm’s commitment to diversity, RJLF has achieved Mansfield Certification “Plus” status by Diversity Lab. This signifies not only our adherence to the program’s consideration and transparency standards, but also that we have attained 30% representation of historically underrepresented lawyers in our current leadership roles and pathway activities.

RJLF has been recognized as a “Top Trial Boutique” and awarded “Silicon Valley Firm of the Year” for three consecutive years by Benchmark Litigation and named an “Elite Boutique” by The National Law Journal.

Elite Talent Wins Cases: RJLF’s break from industry traditions obviously resonated with the market, as the firm’s size quickly expanded with marquee talent from several esteemed “Big Law” firms such as Finnegan Henderson; Hughes Hubbard & Reed; Allen & Overy; Morgan Lewis, & Bockius; and White & Case LLP, among many others.

Our attorneys are from the most prestigious clerkships, including the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit, the Federal Circuit, the 2nd, 6th, 7th, and 11th Circuits, and District Courts around the country, as well as prestigious law schools such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Berkeley, NYU, and others.
The firm’s lawyers have undergraduate and advanced technical degrees in diverse fields including electrical engineering, physics, computer science, computer networks, and biotechnology. RJLF’s lawyers have also been recognized as among the most accomplished trial lawyers by The American College of Trial Lawyers, Chambers USA, The Legal 500, The National Law Journal, and Managing IP, among many others.

Recent Achievements: Punching well above its weight, RJLF often goes toe-to-toe with some of the largest law firms in the world, including Skadden Arps, Morrison & Foerster, Gibson Dunn, and Baker Hostetler, among others. Highlights of the firm’s trial prowess and recent significant wins include:

Commercial Litigation: RJLF secured a precedent-setting victory on behalf of the CRA in the “gas ban on stoves” case against the City of Berkeley. The Ninth Circuit reversed the District Court’s ruling and held that Berkeley’s ban on natural gas hook-ups is preempted by federal law and therefore invalid. The case garnered extensive national attention from major news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Reuters, among others.

Intellectual Property Litigation: RJLF won a landmark $673 million award for Kove IO in a patent infringement case against Amazon Web Services, which involved cloud storage technology. The court upheld a $525 million verdict and added $148 million in interest during post-trial motions. This victory was the largest surviving patent win of 2024, ranked as the ninth highest in the past decade, and recognized as a Top 100 Verdict of 2024 by Law.com’s VerdictSearch.

White Collar Litigation: In an ultrarare price-fixing trial against the Department of Justice (DOJ), the RJLF trial team secured a complete defence verdict after two mistrials. The case stemmed from a high-profile grand jury indictment by the DOJ that charged 10 executives, including RJLF client Roger Austin, a former Vice President of Pilgrim’s Pride, alleging a price-
fixing scheme in the $28 billion-per-year broiler chicken industry. The trial win earned the team Global Competition Review’s 2023 Behavioural Matter of the Year (Americas).

Pro Bono: RJLF is deeply committed to public interest litigation. We understand that our privilege of being trial lawyers naturally involves representing those in need, whether it’s high-profile impact litigation or a person who will be evicted from an apartment. We also collaborate and work side-by- side with our clients to develop targeted pro bono and community service programs. Our pro bono activities include handling cases involving civil rights, immigration, prison abuse, indigent defence, homelessness, and veterans’ issues, among others. The firm was honored by The Legal Aid Society as a recipient of the 2025 Pro Bono Publico Awards for its outstanding service to the organization and its clients.

Updated September 2025

  • Commercial
  • Intellectual property
  • White collar crime
  • Technology and telecommunications

Courtland Reichman    
Intellectual property    
creichman@reichmanjorgensen.com 

  • Lead counsel for Kove IO, securing a $673 million award in a patent case against Amazon Web Services (AWS) involving foundational cloud storage technology capable of managing hundreds of trillions of data objects. The award included a $525 million patent infringement verdict and $148 million in interest, making it the largest standing patent victory of 2024 and the 9th largest in the past decade. The jury found AWS infringed all three of Kove’s patents related to data management and cloud storage. This landmark victory earned multiple accolades, including a spot in Law.com’s VerdictSearch “Top 100 Verdicts” of 2024 (13th largest), Courtland The AmLaw Litigation Daily’s “Litigator of the Week,” and Law360's “Legal Lions of the Week” honor (for the second time).  
     
  • Lead counsel for Densify in multiple patent cases against global giant VMware, involving server virtualization technology and cloud computing. Obtained a $236 million verdict and finding of willful infringement against VMware after a two-week trial in the District of Delaware. Recognized as The AmLaw Litigation Daily’s “Litigator of the Week” following the win. The verdict was also recognized in The National Law Journal's 2021 "Verdicts Hall of Fame" (7th largest in past five years) and 2020 “Top 100 Verdicts” (8th largest in U.S.). Also lead counsel for Densify in patent cases against rival Turbonomic in the District of Delaware and the Southern District of New York.

  • Lead counsel for Cirba (d/b/a Densify) in a complex patent infringement dispute against tech giant VMware in a five-day jury trial in the District of Delaware. Secured an $84 million willful patent infringement verdict, and after only two hours of deliberation, the jurors decided VMware willfully infringed Cirba’s patent that covers cutting-edge virtualization technology. This was the second time a jury determined that VMware committed willful infringement. Law.com’s VerdictSearch named the win among the “Top 100 Verdicts” of 2023 (50th largest verdict). The verdict also earned The AmLaw Litigation Daily’s “Litigator of the Week” shout out.

Sarah Jorgensen    
Commercial    
sjorgensen@reichmanjorgensen.com     

  • California Restaurant Association (CRA). Secured a precedent-setting victory on behalf of the CRA in the “gas ban on stoves” case against the City of Berkeley. The Ninth Circuit reversed the District Court’s ruling and held that Berkeley’s ban on natural gas hookups is preempted by federal law and therefore invalid. The win earned the RJLF team The AmLaw Litigation Daily’s “Litigator of the Week” runners-up recognition, and the case garnered extensive national attention from major news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Reuters, among others.

Christine Lehman
Intellectual property    
clehman@reichmanjorgensen.com     

  • Won a landmark $673 million award for Kove IO in a patent infringement case against Amazon Web Services, centered on cloud storage technology. The court affirmed a $525 million verdict, also awarding $148 million in interest during post-trial motions. This win was the largest surviving patent verdict of 2024, the 9th largest in the past decade, and was ranked 13th on Law.com’s VerdictSearch “Top 100 Verdicts” of 2024. The RJLF team was also honored twice as Law360's “Legal Lions of the Week” for their work on this case."    

  • Secured a crucial trial victory for Corning Optical at the ITC, which found respondents in violation of Section 337 and issued a General Exclusion Order against all infringing products. The win for Corning bars all infringing products from the U.S. for the life of the patents.
       
  • Represented Densify in securing a $236 million patent infringement verdict against VMware—a verdict recognized in The National Law Journal's 2021 "Verdicts Hall of Fame" (7th largest verdict in past five years) and 2020 “Top 100 Verdicts” (8th largest verdict in the U.S.).

Michael Feldberg    
White collar crime    
mfeldberg@reichmanjorgensen.com    

  • Defended Barclays Bank in multidistrict consolidated class actions in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that several major global banks, which were members of The London Gold Fixing Company, conspired to suppress the price of gold from 2004- 2012. With nearly $8 billion in potential damages at stake, Barclays—along with Scotiabank and Société Générale—agreed to a settlement among the three banks amounting to less than 1% of potential damages. 

  • The successful defense and acquittal of a poultry industry executive, a former Vice President of Pilgrim's Pride, in the third price-fixing trial in a federal criminal antitrust case brought by the DOJ, concerning an alleged scheme to fix prices and rig bids for chickens sold to grocery stores and restaurants. The not guilty verdict was announced in July 2022 after jurors deliberated for a day and a half, following a four-week trial before Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. This long-awaited victory follows two mistrials in December 2021 and March 2022 when jurors deadlocked after weeks of trial.

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