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James E. Metzler, a Partner, currently chairs the firm’s Litigation Department. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law, where he was a member of the Buffalo Law Review. He is a former military and commercial airline pilot and is a retired United States Air Force Reservist. He concentrates his litigation practice in the area of intellectual property disputes, including both the prosecution and defense of trademark, copyright and patent infringement actions, and trade secret misappropriation matters, in State and Federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Metzler has lectured on topics related to civil litigation, is a former instructor at the St. John Fisher College Paralegal Institute, and is a contributing editor to Civil Pre-Trial Proceedings in New York (West Group Publishing Co., 1999). He is actively involved in leadership roles in a wide variety of local educational, charitable and service not-for-profit organizations. | 