Michael De Vries
Partner
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Michael De Vries is a nationally recognized IP trial lawyer with substantial success representing plaintiffs in high-stakes intellectual property trials. In just the last year, he was lead trial counsel in three separate jury trial wins throughout the country and is now undefeated in nine consecutive jury trial wins as lead trial counsel over the last five years. De Vries’ unblemished jury trial win streak as lead trial counsel has led to secure more than $2.5 billion for his clients in ver-dicts and publicly reported settlements since 2018. Additionally, De Vries has obtained numerous defense-side jury verdicts, including for Samsung in February 2024 in a multi-patent case seeking $4 billion in dam-ages — the largest defense-side patent jury verdict in US history.
