Renowned Litigator and Stanford Law Prof. Mark Lemley Joins Lex Lumina
On January 1, 2023, Mark A. Lemley joined Lex Lumina as of counsel. Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. Prior to joining Lex Lumina, Lemley was a co-founder of noted litigation boutique Durie Tangri LLP and of Lex Machina, Inc., a startup company that provides litigation data and analytics to law firms, companies, courts, and policymakers. Durie Tangri recently merged with global law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP, and Lex Machina was acquired by Lexis in December 2015.
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“I’m delighted to be joining a team of the smartest lawyers I know, working to make IP law better,” said Lemley.
Lex Lumina founding and managing member Rhett Millsaps added: “Mark is a supernova of IP law and one of the most accomplished lawyer-scholars in the United States. He’s also one of the kindest and most ebullient people I know. We are deeply honored that he’s chosen to join our firm, and we are over the moon that we and our clients now get to work closely with him across an array of matters.”
Lex Lumina founding member Chris Sprigman said: “Mark makes our uniquely capable firm even stronger. With Mark on board, we can offer clients unparalleled representation across all areas of IP, and in antitrust and competition law as well. It’s an incredibly exciting development that we couldn’t have imagined when we launched Lex Lumina less than two years ago.”
Lemley litigates and counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and internet law. He has argued 30 federal appellate cases and numerous district court cases as well as before the California Supreme Court. He has participated in more than three dozen cases in the United States Supreme Court as counsel or amici. His client base is diverse, including Genentech, Dykes on Bikes, video game companies, artists, computer scientists, and nearly every significant Internet company.
Lemley has been named California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year twice. He received the California State Bar’s inaugural IP Vanguard Award. He won the 2018 World Technology Award for Law. In 2017 he received the P.J. Federico Award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society. Back when he was young, Lemley was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World Economic Forum and Berkeley Law School’s Young Alumnus of the Year. He has been recognized as one of the top 50 litigators in the country under 45 and one of the 25 most influential people in IP by American Lawyer, one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the nation by the National Law Journal, and one of the 10 most admired attorneys in IP by IP360. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, and the IP Hall of Fame.
Lemley is the author of nine books and 201 articles, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. His works have been cited more than 300 times by courts, including 17 times by the United States Supreme Court, and more than 40,000 times in books and academic articles, making him the most-cited scholar in IP law and one of the ten most cited legal scholars of all time. Lemley has published 9 of the 100 most-cited law review articles of the last twenty years, more than any other scholar, and a 2012 empirical study named him the most relevant law professor in the U.S. His articles have appeared in 24 of the top 25 law reviews, in Nature Biotechnology, in top economic journals such as the American Economic Review and the Review of Economics and Statistics, and in multiple peer-reviewed and specialty journals. They have been reprinted throughout the world, and translated into Chinese, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. He has taught IP law to federal and state judges at numerous Federal Judicial Center and ABA programs, has testified eight times before Congress, and has filed more than 70 amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and state and federal courts.
