Past Events

Dallas principal Lew LeClair served on a panel at a Federal Trade Commission workshop titled "Competition Snuffed Out: How Predatory Pricing Harms Competition, Consumers ...

Houston principal Bill LaFuze was a featured speaker at the First Annual George Washington University Law School  Donald R. Dunner Endowed Lectures held at the law school in ...

Austin Principal Josh Budwin presented at the IP & Patent Summit on November 11, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Josh discussed the U.S. International Trade Commission. The event ...

Austin Associate and U.S. Army Veteran Kyle Ryman joined multiple Texas Law events in celebration of Veterans Day. As an alumnus of the Texas Law Veterans Association, Kyle ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of IP Dealmakers 2024 in Miami, Florida. "Focused on the dynamic intellectual property transactions market, IP Dealmakers aims to bring ...

Washington, D.C. Principal Nick Matich participated on the panel "The Unpredictable Arts Before the PTAB: 112 & Beyond" at IPWatchdog's Life Sciences Masters 2024. The ...

In celebration of Texas IP Month, McKool Smith hosted Beyond IP on October 28, 2024. The event featured a discussion with David Berdan, USPTO General Counsel, as he shared ...

New York Principal Kevin Schubert moderated a workshop at the annual Licensing Executives Society's meeting "Better Living Through Intellectual Property." Kevin's ...

McKool Smith Principal Alexandra Easley spoke on a panel at the Xerox One Conference titled "Behind the Scenes: How Xerox's Diverse In-House and Outside Legal Teams Support ...

McKool Smith Principals Josh Budwin and Nick Matich served on panels at IPWatchdog’s Live 2024. The event gathered the intellectual property community to discuss ...

McKool Smith Principal Robert Manley will be hosting a webinar titled, "Overview of New Business Courts in Texas: Key Implications for Business Litigation," on September ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of Houston PetSet's 20th Anniversary Fierce & Fabulous Soiree on September 6, 2024. Houston PetSet is dedicated to ending homelessness and ...

Marshall Principal Jennifer Truelove will speak at the 23rd Annual Course for Advanced In-House Counsel hosted by the Texas Bar CLE. The Advanced In-House Counsel course is ...

Washington, DC Principal Nick Matich will be participating at "Patent Owners in the Soup... No Injunction for You!" hosted by The Federalist Society on August 15, 2024. The ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano served as the keynote speaker for the 2024 Justice for All: Courts and the Community Initiative as part of a program at the Eastern District of ...

Dallas Principal Warren Lipschitz presented at the IPBC Global conference alongside the president of Nokia Technologies, Jenni Lukander. IPBC Global is the ...

Houston Principal Joshua Newcomer presented at the 16th Annual Practitioners' Think-Tank on ITC Litigation & Enforcement in Washington, D.C., on May 29-30, 2024. The ...

Austin Principal Josh Budwin spoke at the 16th Annual Practitioners' Think-Tank on ITC Litigation & Enforcement in Washington, D.C., on May 29-30, 2024. The event provided ...

New York Principal Kevin Schubert spoke at the Licensing Executives Society International Conference in Madrid, Spain, on April 28-30, 2024. Founded in 1973, and ...

McKool Smith was a proud sponsor of the Texas General Counsel Forum's annual Robert H. Dedman Award for Ethics and Law Dinner honoring David R. McAtee II, Senior Executive ...

New York Principal Melissa Cabrera and Associate Taylor Perez hosted a Breakfast Event with the Cafecito Network on April 10th. The Cafecito Network is an informal network ...

McKool Smith was a proud sponsor of the 2024 Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership in Austin. The summit is hosted by The University of Texas at Austin School of Law and ...

Dallas Principal Robert Manley presented at the Association of Corporate Counsel's 2024 Emerging Trade Secret Issues event on March 28, 2024. The event brought thought ...

Dallas Principal Richard Kamprath spoke at the IPBC Europe in Munich on March 18-20, 2024. The event brought together 400 top IP corporate executives, deal makers, policy ...

McKool Smith proudly served as the co-presenting sponsor for ETBU's Good Samaritan Awards event, dedicated to benefiting the T. Whitfield Davidson Foundation. This event ...

Dallas Principal Robert Manley will be presenting at the Dallas Bar Association's CLE program focusing on Trial Skills. The program, "A Peek Behind the Curtain: Some of ...

New York Associate Dariana Reid will be participating in St. John's University School of Law's annual event, "Anti-Racism Day: Access, Challenges and Solutions ...

Dallas Principal Alexandra Easley participated in a panel discussion, "What's Been Going on at the Federal Circuit?" along with David Kappos, former Director of the USPTO ...

Dallas Principal Gary Cruciani will be speaking at the seventh annual Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants, & Cybersecurity Conference 2024. The event will discuss ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano presented at the 2024 Justice for All – Courts and the Community Initiative as a keynote speaker. The event invites high school ...

McKool Smith Principal Frank Vecella was featured in the podcast "The Trial Lawyer's Handbook" hosted by Holland & Knight. In this installment Dan Small, a seasoned ...

McKool Smith Principal Scott Hejny will moderate the panel "5 Ways to Win a Case" at the 2023 IP Dealmakers Forum.  Along with his colleagues, Scott will lead a lively ...

McKool Smith Principal Frank Vecella, along with his colleague Robert Maher, led a comprehensive discussion on "The Use of Experts in Litigation" on the Dartmouth Lawyers ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of ChIPs Global Summit 2023.  McKool Smith Associate Eliza Beeney joined our clients and hundreds of other ChIPs members supporting industry ...

New York Principal Melissa Cabrera will be a panelist at LatinoJustice's CAP Leadership Institute on November 13, 2023. The event aims to expose students to the career paths ...

Washington, DC Principal Nick Matich will be speaking at the Contingent Risk Insurance Conference on October 26-27, 2023. This conference is an invitation-only gathering ...

McKool Smith Principal John Sparacino will be a panelist on Construction Projects and Bankruptcy Preference Claims on October 26, 2023. The panel will describe preference ...

New York Principal Kevin Schubert moderated the panel “Trends in Patent Damages and Valuation” on October 16, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois at the Licensing Executive ...

McKool Smith is proud to sponsor the 2023 LF Dealmakers Forum. "Focused on the rapidly evolving field of litigation finance, LF Dealmakers aims to facilitate industry ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of the 2023 AUTM Eastern Region Meeting in New York City.  

The core of the meeting will concentrate on technology transfer and professional ...

McKool Smith is proud to sponsor the upcoming IPWatchdog LIve 2023. The event brings together the IP community and focuses on exceptional networking along with top speakers ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano presented at Justice for All – Courts and the Community Initiative as a keynote speaker. The event, which involves three separate ...

Washington, DC Principal Nick Matich spoke about patents, innovation, and geostrategic competition with China at Inventing America on July 17, 2023. The event was hosted ...

McKool Smith serves as Gold Sponsor for IAM's IPBC Global 2023 bringing together the world's top corporate IP executives, policy experts, dealmakers, senior finance ...

Nowhere but through National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) can attorneys receive personalized coaching by a veritable “who’s who” of advocacy ...

McKool Smith Principals Josh Budwin, Michael Fritz, and Steve Pollinger join the firm sponsorship as speakers and panelist at UCLA's LABEST (LA Bioscience Ecosystem ...

McKool Smith will serve as Conference Chair at the 2023 World IP Review Summit. Jennifer Truelove will serve as a panel moderator (“The Role of NPEs in the Patent Litigation ...

McKool Smith Principal Nick Matich will participate on the panel "Patent Eligibility: Has the Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Struck the Right Balance?" at IPWatchdog's ...

McKool Smith Principal Nick Matich will moderate the panel, "Diamonds in the Rough: Identifying New Licensing Opportunities from Old Patents," at AUTM 2023. Along with ...

McKool Smith Principals Scott Hejny and Nick Matich will participated in the roundtable discussion titled, "The Intersection of IP and AI Research at Universities," at ...