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 25 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 nearly $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 against Amazon Web Services in a patent case involving foundational technology for a cloud storage system capable of handling hundreds of trillions of data objects. He led the team that secured a $673 million total award through post-trial motions. The judgment, held in the Northern District of Illinois, affirmed a $525 million patent infringement verdict and added $148 million in interest, making it the largest patent victory of 2024 at the time and the 9th largest in the past decade. The win also garnered Courtland The AmLaw Litigation Daily’s “Litigator of the Week.”
Courtland’s appellate practice comprises more than 30 federal appellate arguments, including arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit. For three consecutive years, he was named “Silicon Valley Litigator of the Year” by Benchmark Litigation. Chambers USA has recognized him as a leading intellectual property lawyer, with sources describing him as “incredibly strategic,” and The National Law Journal honored him as a “Plaintiffs’ Trailblazer.” Currently, Courtland is a finalist for “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” 2024 by Law.com and The Recorder.
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 Oct 2024
