Michael De Vries

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Michael De Vries is a nationally recognized jury trial lawyer who has achieved numerous highly publicized wins leading high-stakes jury trials involving patent and trade secret claims, including several jury trial wins on behalf of intellectual property owners asserting their IP against competitors. Mike and his trial wins often receive extensive media coverage from The New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg Law and The American Lawyer who featured Mike’s years-long jury trial win streak in an article entitled “All They Do Is Win, Win, Win: Dissecting a Trial Hot Streak.”

In recent years, Mike has secured over $2.5 billion in jury trial victories and settlements for his clients in IP litigations, including for numerous multi-national entities in the semiconductor, telecommunications, computer hardware and software, and life sciences industries. Mike has also secured multiple complete defense verdicts in high-stakes patent trials, including the largest defense-side patent jury verdict in U.S. history in 2024. In 2025, Bloomberg Law recognized Mike in its debut “Unrivaled” list, which spotlights the trial lawyers leading the industry’s most significant and impactful trials and settlements. In 2020 and 2021, Mike was named a “Trial MVP of the Year” by Law360 and has repeatedly been recognized as a “Top Trade Secrets Lawyer” and “Top IP Lawyer” by the Daily Journal.

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University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, J.D., 2000, Order of the Coif; University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1996