Kieran Kieckhefer

Kieran Kieckhefer is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco office and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Her practice focuses on patent, technical trade secret, and copyright litigation. She is an experienced first-chair trial litigator whose cases have focused on a variety of technologies, including semiconductors, hardware, software, consumer electronics, networking, and cybersecurity.

Kieran has extensive experience litigating patent, trade secret, breach of employment contract, and Lanham Act cases in federal district courts across multiple jurisdictions. She has a breadth of experience before federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.

JD, University of Wisconsin, 2007. Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002.