McKool Smith

McKool Smith is a U.S. trial firm with more than 175 trial lawyers across offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Marshall, New York City, Silicon Valley, and Washington, DC.

McKool Smith was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1991 by Chairman Mike McKool and Phil Smith. In 1996, the firm expanded into Marshall, in the Eastern District of Texas. McKool Smith launched an intellectual property litigation practice in 2000 with the opening of its Austin, Texas office. The firm enhanced this practice with the addition of an International Trade Commission (ITC) litigation practice and a new Washington, DC office in 2007. This same year, the firm opened an office in New York and added a white collar defense practice. In 2009, McKool Smith expanded into bankruptcy litigation with the opening of its Houston, Texas office. In September, 2011, McKool Smith announced the joining of Hennigan Dorman, a Los Angeles, California-based trial firm specializing in business disputes and IP litigation. The combination added 35 trial lawyers to McKool Smith’s ranks and launched the firm’s first California office. The combined firm, McKool Smith, conducts business as McKool Smith Hennigan in California.

Currently, McKool Smith represents clients in disputes involving complex commercial litigation, intellectual property (IP), bankruptcy, and white collar defense matters.

McKool Smith represents the plaintiff, i4i, in ongoing patent infringement actions against Microsoft (i4i Limited Partnership v. Microsoft Corporation, No. 6:07-CV-113 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas).

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