Justina K. Sessions

Justina "Tina" K. Sessions is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, focusing on antitrust, intellectual property, and consumer-protection litigation. Her practice centers on representing technology companies in complex, high-stakes disputes. Based on her representation of clients like Google and Qualcomm, her work is concentrated in technology sectors such as software, network security, and cellular communications.

The provided data tracks one appearance on the plaintiff's side in Ironburg Inventions Ltd. v. Valve Corporation. However, Ms. Sessions' broader practice, as detailed by her firm and prior representations, indicates a primary focus on defending large technology companies. Prior to joining Freshfields, she was a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which she joined in 2020, and previously a partner at the litigation boutique Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, where she started as an associate in 2011.

Ms. Sessions' notable work includes her role as counsel for plaintiff Ironburg Inventions in its successful litigation against Valve Corporation. The case resulted in a jury verdict of willful infringement of a patent on a video game controller and a damages award of over $4 million, a verdict that was later subject to extensive appellate review at the Federal Circuit regarding IPR estoppel. Her experience also includes representing a network security company in district court and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in proceedings involving numerous patents.

Ms. Sessions earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 2009 and a B.A. from Yale University in 2004. She is admitted to the California bar. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Mary Beck Briscoe of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the Honorable Claire V. Eagan of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.