Past Events

McKool Smith Principals Josh Newcomer and Mitch Verboncoeur will each present at the 17th Annual Practitioners' Think Tank on ITC Litigation & Enforcement, hosted by the ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of IPBC Europe, hosted by IAM LIVE. Dallas Principal Richard Kamprath will moderate the panel "At the Vanguard of Multimedia ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano will present at the 2025 "A Day in Law School" event, hosted by Justice for All – Courts and the Community Initiative. The event ...

McKool Smith associates Laura Baron and Patrick Pijls, along with Robert Earle, Vice President of Patent Assertion and Enforcement at Ericsson, will present "Handling ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of the Texas IP and Technology Summit, hosted by the Licensing Executives Society. The summit will welcome IP professionals worldwide to ...

Dallas Principal Robert Manley will participate in a panel discussion, "War Stories and Lessons Learned That Will Help You in Your Next Trial," along with Northern District ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano will present at Civic Spirit Day, held at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. During Civic Spirit Day, students ...

McKool Smith Principal Robert Manley hosted a webinar titled, "Overview of New Business Courts in Texas: Key Implications for Business Litigation," on September 18, 2024 ...

Los Angeles Principal Chad Hummel spoke on a panel at CES titled, "AI and the Crisis of Creative Rights: Deep Fakes, Ethics and the Law." The panel engaged in a discussion on the ...

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

McKool Smith Principal Kevin Schubert recently participated as a panelist at the Licensing Executives Society (LES) event, Global FRAND Litigation: A Worldwide Tour of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 served on a panel at IPWatchdog’s Live 2024. The event gathered the intellectual property community to discuss the most important ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...