Noted y clients for its ‘solid experience in the courtroom’, Sidley Austin LLP represents a wide-ranging roster of clients—spanning professional services, life sciences, and medical devices—in IP litigation, including in complex trade secret matters. The team is headed up by several experienced litigators: Dallas-based ’seasoned courtroom lawyer’ Aimee Fagan; New York-based Ching-Lee Fukuda ; Chicago-based Stephanie Koh; Jeffrey Kushan, who works from Washington DC, and San Francisco-based Irene Yang.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Solid experience in the courtroom in trade secrets litigation’

  • ‘Phillip Aurentz is an excellent younger partner with excellent technical and courtroom skills; he is very smart and brings deep technical knowledge to the table

  • 'Aimee Fagan is a seasoned courtroom lawyer who is smart and well-liked by judges and juries.’
  • ‘Aimee Fagan is excellent.’

Work highlights

  • Secured a complete arbitration victory for the client in a trade secret suit brought by data analytics and marketing research company Motista, LLC, resulting in the dismissal of a related Eastern District of Texas litigation.
  • Defended the client against Boston Scientific’s assertion of 20 patents and 60+ trade secrets in multiple cases in venues across the US over the course of six years of litigation.
  • Secured a favorable ruling on behalf of an insurance company in a trade secret, patent infringement, and breach-of-contract suit involving tech used to detect the motion of a vehicle by a smartphone.

Lawyers

Practice head

Aimee Fagan; Ching-Lee Fukuda; Stephanie Koh; Jeffrey Kushan; Irene Yang

Other key lawyers

Phillip Aurentz; Sharon Lee; Thomas Broughan