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Thomas Steindler is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the Firm's Trial Department, where his practice focuses on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation.
In the intellectual property area, Mr. Steindler's recent cases include a successful patent litigation on behalf of CIBA Vision Corporation against Bausch & Lomb involving extended contact wear lenses, as well as patent litigations for other clients on products as diverse as medical distal protection devices and fasteners used in the furniture industry. Other recent cases in the intellectual property area involve the misappropriation of trade secrets and enforcement of covenants not to compete in the storage area network industry.
Mr. Steindler's recent commercial litigations include a $155 million damages judgment for LaSalle Talman against the United States in the savings and loan "goodwill" cases in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, as well as the defense of CIBA Vision Corporation in false advertising litigation against Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. related to contact lenses.
Mr. Steindler also has substantial appellate experience, including argument in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of a coalition of electric utility companies in National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Inc. v. Gulf Power Co., et al. He also argued appeals on behalf of coalitions of electric utility companies in Gulf Power Co. v. United States, 187 F.3d 1324 (11th Cir. 1999) and Southern Co. v. FCC, 293 F.3d 1338 (11th Cir. 2002), and on behalf of Southern Company in a successful challenge to an FCC rule in Fresno Mobile Radio, Inc., et al. v. FCC, 165 F.3d 965 (D.C. Cir. 1999).
Mr. Steindler is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Fourth, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Education
George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1985
University of Oxford, M.A., 1980
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1978 | 