Jesse J. Kirchner is an associate in Crowell & Moring's Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the firm's Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups.
During law school, Jesse spent one summer working at the Office of the General Counsel at the Third Circuit Court of Michigan, and another as a summer associate at Crowell & Moring. Before law school, Jesse worked for five years as a web software developer and for one year as a mechanical engineering intern at BMW in Munich, Germany.
At the University of Michigan Law School, Jesse served as Managing Executive Editor of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. He tutored Constitutional Law, was a teaching assistant for the first-year legal writing program, and developed a strong interest in litigation procedure and jurisdiction.
Representative Matters
· Doe v. Islamic Republic of Iran. Represents Lebanese victims seeking damages for injuries sustained in the 1983 and 1984 U.S. Embassy bombings in Beirut. Pending in D.C. federal court.
· TQP Development, LLC v. Aflac Inc. Represents client INTL FCStone Inc. in a patent infringement matter. Pending in Texas federal court.
· Represents large appliance manufacturer seeking to sue suppliers for price fixing under federal antitrust law.
· Counseled pharmaceutical company in dispute with licensee regarding possible contract construction arguments.
Jesse is active in pro bono work. He currently counsels the Homeless Persons Representation Project in its effort to end sex discrimination against homeless persons by the City of Baltimore. He also helped draft an appellate brief for a Florida prisoner (Green v. State), and, in law school, drafted an appellate brief on behalf of an indigent Michigan defendant (People v. Davis).
Publications
· "Dispersion of Solute by Electrokinetic Flow Through Post Arrays and Wavy-Walled Channels," 77 Analytical Chemistry 1140 (2005). Co-Authors: J.J. Kirchner & E.F. Hasselbrink, Jr.
· "Dispersion in Spatially-Periodic Chromatography Media," (unpublished M.S. thesis, University of Michigan) (June 20, 2003). Author: Jesse J. Kirchner.
· "Optimization of Drift Gases for Accuracy in Pressurized Drift Tubes," 474 Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A 238 (2001). Co-Author: Jesse J. Kirchner.
· "Drift Gas Optimization for Cylindrical Geometries with Application to the Largest Detector to Date," (unpublished B.S. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (May 5, 2000). Author: Jesse J. Kirchner.
· "Consistent Measurements Comparing the Drift Features of Noble Gas Mixtures," 421 Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A 54 (1999). Co-Author: Jesse J. Kirchner.
Alerts & Newsletters
· "Appeals Court Finds Encrypted Data Beyond Reach of Government Investigators," White Collar Alert (February 27, 2012). Contacts: John Vandevelde, Justin P. Murphy, Jesse J. Kirchner.