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.”
It is also a majority women-owned firm, with only two male partners, and, most notably, it has focused on fostering a trial-forward agenda. Peers address the firm as “smart and hungry.” A client testifies, “The firm does an exceptional job preparing complex technical cases for trial before a lay jury. The firm also uses technology such as internal databases well to disseminate relevant information to the entire team quickly, which is exceedingly important in a fast-moving yet complex case.” The firm’s unique structure – a litigation boutique that spans a national footprint – was amplified further this year when its network of offices (which include Silicon Valley, Washington DC, Atlanta and New York) and its team was enhanced by yet another female partner, Texas trial lawyer Amy Ruhland, who joined the firm in August 2023 from DLA Piper and effectively launched a new Reichman Jorgensen office in Austin.
Reichman, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office and the firm’s managing partner, 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.” Reichman secured 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. Acting with Reichman on this matter was DC managing partner
Christine Lehman, who has her own set of vocally appreciative clients. One calls Lehman “exceptional at separating the wheat from the chaff’ and applauds her “laser-like focus on the important stuff without sweating the small stuff.” Reichman and Lehman also secured a $15 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Droplets against tech giant Yahoo! in March 2022, following a three-week jury trial and, a year later, won post-trial motions, with the verdict upheld and an additional $12 million in pre- and post-judgment interest ordered, for a total award of $27 million for the client.
Michael Feldberg, based in the firm’s New York office, has the firm’s most recent trial victory, logging a major win in July 2022 when a jury rendered a not-guilty verdict that acquitted the firm’s client, a former director at Pilgrim’s Pride, one of five poultry industry executives ensnared in a criminal antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice concerning an alleged scheme to fix prices and rig bids for chickens sold to grocery stores and restaurants between 2012 and 2019. The verdict in this long-running case comes after two mistrials in December 2021 and a hung jury in March 2022.
