Porzenski, Joseph J.

Mike Fried represents clients in complex litigation matters, concentrating on appeals and potentially case-dispositive motions. He has extensive experience with appellate litigation and has focused, among other areas, in constitutional law, antitrust, labor, and intellectual property. He has argued numerous appeals in the federal circuit courts.

Mike's recent work includes participating in the representation of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in the tobacco companies' successful appeal of a $145 billion punitive damages award in Florida state court. He also was coauthor of a successful certiorari petition and victorious merits brief in Ortega v. Star-Kist, 545 U.S. 546 (2005), a case addressing the question whether the federal supplemental jurisdiction statute authorizes pendent party jurisdiction in diversity cases.

Mike has published articles on issues including, among others, statutory interpretation, federalism, and intellectual property. His writings have been praised by a federal court as "[p]articularly helpful in analyzing" issues relating to statutory interpretation, In re Kane, 336 F.R. 447, 485 n.16 (Bankr. D. Nev. 2006), and cited in numerous legal journals. See, e.g., Owen D. Jones & Timothy H. Goldsmith, "Law and Behavioral Biology," 105 Colum. L. Rev. 405, 483 (2005) and Jim Chen, "Judicial Epochs in Supreme Court History," 47 St. Louis U. L.J. 677, 713 (2003).

Mike is a member of the Firm's Federal Circuit and IP Appeals service and has significant experience in appeals and trial practice in patent litigation. He has represented clients in a variety of intellectual property cases before the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and the district courts.