Richard S. (Rick) Florsheim

Richard S. (Rick) Florsheim

Richard Florsheim is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and is the chair of the firm's Industry Teams Department. He is also a member of the firm's Management Committee. He is the former chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Department, and, before that, he was the leader of the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. For the past 15 years, Mr. Florsheim's practice has been devoted exclusively to the litigation and alternative dispute resolution of patent infringement disputes.

Since 1974, Mr. Florsheim has devoted his professional career to the litigation of intellectual property cases and other complex civil litigation. He has tried about two dozen cases before judges and juries. Mr. Florsheim has served as lead counsel in over 40 patent infringement cases involving products and services covering a broad range of technologies in various district courts, in the Court of Federal Claims and before the U.S. International Trade Commission. He has also argued over a dozen appeals from district court decisions in patent infringement litigations before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Florsheim was the chairman of the subcommittee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association responsible for drafting the AIPLA's first model jury instructions for nationwide use in patent infringement litigation.

Mr. Florsheim has lectured on the subject of patent litigation at numerous national seminars and has co-authored the discussion of patent litigation in Biotechnology Patent Practice (2nd ed., 1992). He also has substantial experience in representing clients in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including the negotiation of litigation settlements and the conduct of arbitration proceedings, mediations and summary jury trials. He also is featured among 10 leading IP lawyers in Inside the Minds: Leading Intellectual Property Lawyers: IP Experts Share Their Knowledge on the Art & Science of Intellectual Property Law (Aspatore Books, March 2002). Mr. Florsheim is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Federal Circuit Bar Association, and the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the American Bar Association. He is listed in the current editions of The Best Lawyers in America®, Who's Who in the World, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and has been selected for inclusion in the 2005-2009 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists for his intellectual property litigation work.

Mr. Florsheim is a 1971 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his J.D., magna cum laude (first in his class), from Marquette University Law School in 1974.