Michael S. Fried

Mike represents clients in complex litigation matters, specializing in appeals and potentially case-dispositive motions in trial courts. He has extensive experience with all aspects of the appellate process, and has focused, among other areas, in constitutional law, procedure and jurisdiction, labor, and intellectual property. He has successfully argued numerous appeals in the federal circuit courts and has represented clients in matters before other federal and state trial and appellate courts. For example, he participated in the representation of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in the tobacco companies' successful appeal of a $145 billion punitive damages award in Florida state court and was coauthor of a successful certiorari petition and victorious merits brief in Ortega v. Star-Kist, 545 U.S. 546 (2005), a case addressing the question whether the federal supplemental jurisdiction statute authorizes pendent party jurisdiction in diversity cases.

Mike has published articles on issues including, among others, statutory interpretation, federalism, and intellectual property. His writings have been praised by a federal court as "[p]articularly helpful in analyzing" issues relating to statutory interpretation, In re Kane, 336 F.R. 447, 485 n.16 (Bankr. D. Nev. 2006), and cited in numerous legal journals. See, e.g., Andrew S. Gold, "Absurd Results, Scrivener's Errors, and Statutory Interpretation," 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 25, 27 (2006); Owen D. Jones & Timothy H. Goldsmith, "Law and Behavioral Biology," 105 Colum. L. Rev. 405, 483 (2005); and Jim Chen, "Judicial Epochs in Supreme Court History," 47 St. Louis U. L.J. 677, 713 (2003).

Mike is also a member of the Firm's Federal Circuit and IP Appeals service and has significant experience in appeals and trial practice in patent litigation. He has represented clients in a variety of intellectual property cases before the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and the district courts and coauthored an extensive survey of Federal Circuit patent law during the year 2006.