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Joshua Simmons is a nationally recognized appellate and trial court litigator, who has been lauded as an “exceptional,” “forceful,” and “creative” “brainiac” (Chambers), “Top Attorney” (Law360), “meticulous litigator” and “big-picture thought leader” (WTR). This “Intellectual Property Superhero” (CLS) is one of Crain’s “Notable Litigators & Trial Attorneys” and Lawdragon’s “Leading Litigators in America” for wins resulting in over $1.6 billion in combined plaintiff-side verdicts, preliminary and permanent injunctions, and complete dismissals in defense-side cases before and at trial. With a practice at the “intersection of entertainment and tech,” he has been recognized as a “Power Lawyer” (THR), “Trailblazer” (NLJ), and “Top Entertainment Attorney” (Variety) for his eye-catching media litigations — which involve film, news, publishing, social media, sports, television, theatre and video games — and as a “Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisor” (Lawdragon), “Power Player,” and “Distinguished Adviser” (Financier) for his technology practice — including artificial intelligence, computer software and services, circuitry and semiconductors, immersive technology, Internet-based systems, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and telecommunications. He is “sought after for complex cases” and those of first impression, as well as “strategic counseling, portfolio management, and policy advice,” (WIPR) for which IAM named him a “Strategy 300 Global Leader” and Lawdragon named him a “Leading Global IP Lawyer.”

Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 2010, Carroll G. Harper Prize (achievement in intellectual property), Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Columbia Business Law Review, Executive Editor; Brandeis University, B.A., Politics, 2006, Minor in Computer Science.