Intellectual property and commercial litigation boutique Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg has made a notable impression on the legal community in fairly short order. Formed as Reichman Jorgensen in 2018 upon the departure of trial luminary Courtland Reichman from McKool Smith in order to launch this venture, the firm underwent a branding overhaul in 2021, continuing to build upon its pedigree and swiftly rising market profile. A peer marvels, “They started national! And yet they are still lean and nimble.” Another notes, “They are known for doing a lot of IP work but it’s more than just standard patent cases – it’s more diverse, with a lot of it crossing over into antitrust and even bankruptcy. And they seem to be more diverse in the types of patent work, too. It doesn’t seem like it’s beholden to pharma work – it’s a broader industrial spectrum, and it seems like more tech.” Reichman Jorgensen is also a majority women-owned firm, and, most notably, it has focused on fostering a trial-forward agenda. Peers address the firm as “smart and hungry.” The firm’s unique structure – a litigation boutique that spans a national footprint, was amplified further when its network of offices (which include Silicon Valley, Washington, DC, Atlanta and New York) when it launched an office in Austin, Texas in August 2023. With regard to the firm’s patent practice, peers note that “They are getting hired for a lot more DEFENSE cases now. In the first couple of years, it seemed like a lot more plaintiff work – you get a couple of big plaintiff wins, you get more plaintiff work. But then the defense bar sees this and says, ‘Oh, you’ve got all of these plaintiff cases, you must be really good lawyers. How about doing some work for us?’”
The firm made a notable addition to its new Austin office in February 2025 with the addition of
Scott Cole, an IP trial lawyer who spent 20 years at McKool Smith before leaving in 2021 for brief stays at Quinn Emanuel (opening that firm’s Austin office) as well as his own solo endeavor before joining Reichman Jorgensen to further its Texas buildout. Cole attends to a mixed practice that emphasizes plaintiff non-practicing-entity work, largely acting on behalf of entities holding varied tech patent portfolios.
Matt Berkowitz, in the firm’s Silicon Valley office, has also been building a practice with a noted emphasis on plaintiff-side work, an opportunity not afforded to him before joining the comparatively flexible arrangement offered by Reichman Jorgensen. His recent engagements include serving as lead counsel for Valtrus in its enforcement of Hewlett Packard patents in multiple litigations in the cellular and networking space and data center-cooling technology. Reichman, also based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office, is revered by peers as “a trial veteran, which is unique at his relatively young age, but not that surprising, seeing as how he got his chops through his time at McKool.” A client calls him “a strong advocate and a true trial lawyer,” and goes on to quip, “I only wish there more of him.” In April 2024, Reichman and DC’s Christine Lehman secured a staggering $525 million patent infringement verdict for Kove IO against Amazon Web Services at a trial in which the jury found that the defendant, through its use of Kove’s technology for its cloud business, infringed all three patents at issue in the litigation. “This was huge,” marvels a peer. “They [the Reichman Jorgensen team] literally put the opposing firm out of business!” Almost a year to the day, the same duo scored an $84 million willful patent infringement verdict on behalf of Cirba (dba Densify) against tech giant VMware. The verdict was announced in May 2023, following a five-day jury trial. Sarah Jorgensen, who is based in the Atlanta office and has a practice focused more on commercial litigation, works with Reichman on multiple matters concerning several municipalities’ ban on natural-gas hookups. Michael Feldberg, based in New York, represents Barclays Bank in multidistrict consolidated class actions alleging that several major global banks, which were members of The London Gold Fixing Company, conspired to suppress the price of gold from 2004 to 2012. With nearly $8 billion in potential damages at stake, Barclays agreed to a settlement, which was approved in August 2022.
