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Life Sciences

Desmarais LLP offers unparalleled expertise and a deep bench of trial attorneys with the knowledge and experience necessary to win life sciences cases.
Desmarais LLP offers unparalleled expertise and a deep bench of trial attorneys with the knowledge and experience necessary to win life sciences cases. Our lawyers have represented numerous top tier pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in their most important patent litigations related to pharmaceuticals, biologics, chemical and biological techniques and probes, medical devices, and administrative and antitrust matters. Desmarais LLP’s lawyers understand the life sciences. More than 30 of our lawyers, including 10 partners, have formal training in the life sciences. Several have advanced degrees in the life sciences and/or relevant industry experience. Our lawyers’ trial and appellate experience is complemented by our experience coordinating strategies with foreign litigations, performing due diligence investigations, handling inter partes review proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Section 337 investigations before the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), and advocating our clients’ interests in amicus briefs filed at the circuit court and Supreme Court levels. Desmarais LLP’s flexible and innovative fee structure allows us to work closely with our clients to develop fee arrangements tailored to their individual needs.

We do not use the traditional, and frequently inefficient, billable hour approach to fees. Instead, for clients who want predictability, we offer a flat-fee structure negotiated at the outset of a matter. In appropriate cases, we will also entertain contingent fee arrangements, or hybrid flat- and contingent-fee arrangements.

Widely known as one of the preeminent firms focusing on intellectual property matters, Desmarais LLP and its lawyers are regularly recognized in the press and by their peers as among the top trial lawyers in the country, including publications such as:

U.S. News & World Report, Best Lawyers
IAM Global Leaders
Managing Intellectual Property, IP STARS,
Intellectual Asset Management
LMG Life Sciences
Benchmark Litigation
Chambers USA
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PRACTICE CONTACTS

Justin P.D. Wilcox
Partner
 
Kerri-Ann Limbeek
Partner
 
Brian D. Matty
Partner
 
Lindsey E. Miller
Partner
 

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