Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)

Chris Lawless is a partner in Kirkland’s Intellectual Property Group, focusing on litigation and trials involving patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, and unfair competition claims. Chris also broadly advises clients on intellectual property strategy. Chris has substantial experience leading large case teams with billions of dollars in alleged damages through all phases of complex litigation, from pre-suit investigations through case inception, trial, and appeal. Many of Chris’s cases also involve parallel proceedings in foreign jurisdictions in Asia and Europe.

Chris has served as trial counsel in multiple trials in U.S. District Courts and the International Trade Commission, and appeals at the Federal Circuit. His technological case experience includes wireless technology, computer hardware and software, semiconductor fabrication, internet content delivery, precision manufacturing methods, medical devices and equipment, and chemical engineering.

Former Law Clerk, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2007–2008

Former Law Clerk, Girardi & Keese, 2006–2007

The Judge Paul R. Michel Intellectual Property American Inn of Court

Los Angeles County Bar Association

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, J.D., 2008

University of Michigan, B.S.E., Industrial Engineering, 2004

United States Air Force Academy, 1999