Past Events

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of the LES USA & Canada 2026 Annual Meeting, hosted by the Licensing Executives Society in San Diego from October 18–21, 2026. The meeting ...

New York Principal Steven Rizzi will participate as a speaker in Cardozo Law's IP+IL Distinguished Speakers Series. He will join Professor Saurabh Vishnubhakat, who ...

New York Principal Eliza Beeney will participate in a masterclass discussing "The retention revolution" at IPBC Global 2026 hosted by IAM Live. The masterclass will focus ...

New York Principal Kevin Schubert will serve as the moderator for a workshop titled, "Hot Issues in Worldwide SEP Litigation" at the LESI 2026 Annual Conference in ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano will serve as a featured speaker for the 2026 Justice for All: Courts and the Community Initiative as part of a program at the White ...

New York Principal Kevin Schubert will serve as the moderator for a panel titled, "Trends in Patent Damages and Valuation" at the LES 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston on ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano will serve as a featured speaker for the 2025 Justice for All: Courts and the Community Initiative as part of a program at the ...

New York Principal Kyle Lonergan will serve as the moderator for a roundtable event hosted by Cooley and the Creditor Rights Coalition, focusing on recent developments in ...

McKool Smith Principals Josh Newcomer and Mitch Verboncoeur will each present at the 17th Annual Practitioners' Think Tank on ITC Litigation & Enforcement, hosted by the ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano will present at the 2025 "A Day in Law School" event, hosted by Justice for All – Courts and the Community Initiative. The event ...

McKool Smith associates Laura Baron, along with Robert Earle, Vice President of Patent Assertion and Enforcement at Ericsson, will present "Handling Global Patent ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of the Texas IP and Technology Summit, hosted by the Licensing Executives Society. The summit will welcome IP professionals worldwide to ...

Dallas Principal Robert Manley will participate in a panel discussion, "War Stories and Lessons Learned That Will Help You in Your Next Trial," along with Northern District ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano will present at Civic Spirit Day, held at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. During Civic Spirit Day, students ...

McKool Smith Principal Robert Manley hosted a webinar titled, "Overview of New Business Courts in Texas: Key Implications for Business Litigation," on September 18, 2024 ...

Dallas principal Lew LeClair served on a panel at a Federal Trade Commission workshop titled "Competition Snuffed Out: How Predatory Pricing Harms Competition, Consumers ...

McKool Smith Principal Kevin Schubert recently participated as a panelist at the Licensing Executives Society (LES) event, Global FRAND Litigation: A Worldwide Tour of ...

Houston principal Bill LaFuze was a featured speaker at the First Annual George Washington University Law School  Donald R. Dunner Endowed Lectures held at the law school in ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of IP Dealmakers 2024 in Miami, Florida. "Focused on the dynamic intellectual property transactions market, IP Dealmakers aims to bring ...

In celebration of Texas IP Month, McKool Smith hosted Beyond IP on October 28, 2024. The event featured a discussion with David Berdan, USPTO General Counsel, as he shared ...

New York Principal Kevin Schubert moderated a workshop at the annual Licensing Executives Society's meeting "Better Living Through Intellectual Property." Kevin's ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of Houston PetSet's 20th Anniversary Fierce & Fabulous Soiree on September 6, 2024. Houston PetSet is dedicated to ending homelessness and ...

Marshall Principal Jennifer Truelove will speak at the 23rd Annual Course for Advanced In-House Counsel hosted by the Texas Bar CLE. The Advanced In-House Counsel course is ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano served as the keynote speaker for the 2024 Justice for All: Courts and the Community Initiative as part of a program at the Eastern District of ...

Dallas Principal Warren Lipschitz presented at the IPBC Global conference alongside the president of Nokia Technologies, Jenni Lukander. IPBC Global is the ...

Houston Principal Joshua Newcomer presented at the 16th Annual Practitioners' Think-Tank on ITC Litigation & Enforcement in Washington, D.C., on May 29-30, 2024. The ...

New York Principal Kevin Schubert spoke at the Licensing Executives Society International Conference in Madrid, Spain, on April 28-30, 2024. Founded in 1973, and ...

McKool Smith was a proud sponsor of the Texas General Counsel Forum's annual Robert H. Dedman Award for Ethics and Law Dinner honoring David R. McAtee II, Senior Executive ...

McKool Smith hosted a Breakfast Event with the Cafecito Network on April 10th. The Cafecito Network is an informal network of Hispanic and Latina lawyers who come together ...

McKool Smith was a proud sponsor of the 2024 Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership in Austin. The summit is hosted by The University of Texas at Austin School of Law and ...

Dallas Principal Robert Manley presented at the Association of Corporate Counsel's 2024 Emerging Trade Secret Issues event on March 28, 2024. The event brought thought ...

McKool Smith proudly served as the co-presenting sponsor for ETBU's Good Samaritan Awards event, dedicated to benefiting the T. Whitfield Davidson Foundation. This event ...

Dallas Principal Robert Manley will be presenting at the Dallas Bar Association's CLE program focusing on Trial Skills. The program, "A Peek Behind the Curtain: Some of ...

New York Associate Dariana Reid will be participating in St. John's University School of Law's annual event, "Anti-Racism Day: Access, Challenges and Solutions ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano presented at the 2024 Justice for All – Courts and the Community Initiative as a keynote speaker. The event invites high school ...

McKool Smith Principal Frank Vecella was featured in the podcast "The Trial Lawyer's Handbook" hosted by Holland & Knight. In this installment Dan Small, a seasoned ...

McKool Smith Principal Frank Vecella, along with his colleague Robert Maher, led a comprehensive discussion on "The Use of Experts in Litigation" on the Dartmouth Lawyers ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of ChIPs Global Summit 2023.  McKool Smith Associate Eliza Beeney joined our clients and hundreds of other ChIPs members supporting industry ...

McKool Smith Principal John Sparacino will be a panelist on Construction Projects and Bankruptcy Preference Claims on October 26, 2023. The panel will describe preference ...

New York Principal Kevin Schubert moderated the panel “Trends in Patent Damages and Valuation” on October 16, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois at the Licensing Executive ...

McKool Smith is proud to sponsor the 2023 LF Dealmakers Forum. "Focused on the rapidly evolving field of litigation finance, LF Dealmakers aims to facilitate industry ...

McKool Smith is a proud sponsor of the 2023 AUTM Eastern Region Meeting in New York City.  

The core of the meeting will concentrate on technology transfer and professional ...

New York Associate Mike Catapano presented at Justice for All – Courts and the Community Initiative as a keynote speaker. The event, which involves three separate ...

McKool Smith serves as Gold Sponsor for IAM's IPBC Global 2023 bringing together the world's top corporate IP executives, policy experts, dealmakers, senior finance ...

Nowhere but through National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) can attorneys receive personalized coaching by a veritable “who’s who” of advocacy ...

McKool Smith will serve as Conference Chair at the 2023 World IP Review Summit. Jennifer Truelove will serve as a panel moderator (“The Role of NPEs in the Patent Litigation ...

McKool Smith Principal Warren Lipschitz will be the moderator for "Global Impact of Standardization Law" at the 2022 Global FRAND and SEP Symposium on Friday, October 21 ...

McKool Smith serves as Silver Sponsor for IAM's IPBC Global 2022 bringing together the world's top corporate IP executives, policy experts, dealmakers, senior finance ...

The firm is pleased to sponsor Managing IP’s Intellectual Property and Innovation Summit, taking place in New York on May 24. Taking part in panel discussions and ...

McKool Smith associate Eliza Beeney will serve as panel moderator for "The (Mis)Use of Anti-Suit Injunctions in International IP Litigation: Can foreign courts enjoin ...