Courtland Reichman is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP (RJLF). Courtland is a broadly-gauged trial lawyer with over 30 years of experience in high-exposure intellectual property and commercial litigation. He has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation as one of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the U.S.” and the “Top 20 in California.” Courtland is known for delivering results through comprehensive case strategy, boiling down even the most complex cases into understandable themes, and communicating simply and effectively with judges and juries. Under his leadership, the firm has secured over $1 billion in jury verdicts and judgments since its launch in 2018.
Courtland’s intellectual property practice focuses on patent, false advertising, copyright and trademark litigation. His complex commercial practice includes issues of constitutional law, energy, antitrust, breach of contract, trade secrets, franchise/distribution, and unfair competition.
Recently, Courtland was lead trial counsel for Kove IO again, 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 surviving patent victory of 2024 and the 9th largest in the past decade. This 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).”
Courtland’s appellate practice comprises more than 30 federal appellate arguments, including arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit. Recognized for his exceptional skill in high-stakes trials, he was named one of Bloomberg Law’s 2025 Unrivaled Litigators, an honor awarded to only 32 attorneys nationwide. In 2025, he also received the Daily Journal’s California Lawyers and Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) award and was named Law.com/The Recorder’s Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year. For three consecutive years, Benchmark Litigation named him “Silicon Valley Litigator of the Year.”
Among his many other accolades, The National Law Journal honored him as a "Plaintiffs’ Trailblazer," and Law360 named him an “Intellectual Property MVP” in 2024, one of only seven IP litigators ranked nationwide. Chambers USA has praised him as a leading intellectual property lawyer, with sources describing him as "incredibly strategic,” noting his “remarkable ability to connect with juries and a gift for reducing even the most complicated matters to their essence, communicating them in a way jurors can understand.”
Courtland graduated, with honors, from Swarthmore College, with a degree in economics, after which he worked as an associate economist at the RAND Corporation, publishing a number of articles and a book involving labor economics. He later graduated Order of the Coif from Emory University School of Law, where he was managing editor of the Emory Law Journal. Courtland served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Lanier Anderson III on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Prior to founding Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP, Courtland served as Managing Principal of McKool Smith’s Silicon Valley office and as Global Chair of King & Spalding’s 150-lawyer Intellectual Property Group and as Managing Partner of the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices.
Updated September 2025
