Leslie M. Schmidt

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Leslie M. Schmidt — Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York)

Focus areas. Schmidt's practice is patent and trade-secret litigation, with first-chair trial experience in federal district court, at the U.S. International Trade Commission, and in arbitration, plus a stated emphasis on global FRAND disputes. Her firm profile lists pharmaceuticals, chemicals, medical devices, semiconductors, mobile devices, software, batteries, and oil-and-gas technology — a range consistent with her chemistry background. The tracked docket, however, is dominated by a single technology family: aerial imagery and rooftop measurement software (EagleView/Pictometry patents covering oblique/overhead imagery capture, 3D roof reconstruction, and automated measurement reports). Her broader reported work spans digital mobile radio software (Motorola), geophysical survey technology (WesternGeco), battery materials (BASF), and semiconductor/mechanical art.

Side preference. The tracked data (7 plaintiff-side, 1 defendant-side appearances) reflects concentrated representation of a patent owner — EagleView Technologies and its subsidiary Pictometry — enforcing its portfolio against competitors such as Nearmap, Xactware/Verisk, and GAF. That is operating-company enforcement, not NPE/PAE prosecution. The two "Verisk Analytics v. Eagle View" entries appear to be the same D.N.J. dispute captured under competing captions (EagleView's infringement case and Verisk/Xactware's counterclaims), which likely accounts for the single defendant-side entry and should be read with caution. Her firm bio and reported matters show substantial defense-side work as well (Motorola Solutions, Apple, Applied Materials, BASF, GD Energy Products), so the fair characterization is a two-sided patent litigator whose tracked appearances happen to skew toward one long-running client.

Firm context and notable matters. Schmidt has been at Kirkland & Ellis for her entire tracked career and is a partner in the New York office; no prior firm is documented in the sources reviewed. Most prominent tracked matter: EagleView v. Xactware Solutions/Verisk (D.N.J.) — a $125M jury verdict for willful infringement of five patents, followed by a restraining order and permanent injunction; enhanced damages added roughly $375M before the parties settled in November 2021 while on appeal (her tracked role was of counsel; the publicly reported lead trial team was Alper, De Vries, and Cutri). In EagleView v. Nearmap (D. Utah, eight patents) she is tracked as trial counsel; the case was stayed in August 2025 pending PTO and Federal Circuit proceedings, and the Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB obviousness holdings on the '961 and '078,436 patents in February 2026. Other verified outcomes from her reported casework include the $764.6M Motorola Solutions v. Hytera trade-secret/copyright verdict (N.D. Ill., Feb. 2020; later reduced), the WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical Supreme Court wins on extraterritorial damages and the resulting $93.5M award, and a BASF ITC exclusion order against Umicore battery materials.

PTAB/IPR and credentials. Her IPR exposure is largely indirect: the EagleView patents she has litigated were the subject of more than a dozen Xactware IPR petitions and later Nearmap IPRs (including IPR2022-00734, which drew Director review), but I did not locate PTAB filings naming her as counsel, so regular first-chair PTAB practice is not verified. Admissions: Massachusetts (2008), D.C. (2009), New York (2010); registered in the Federal, Second, and Seventh Circuits and several district courts. Education: J.D. cum laude, Boston College Law School (2008); B.S. in Chemistry cum laude, University of Notre Dame (2004). A Law360 profile references a one-year stint clerking at the Federal Circuit; this is not corroborated by her firm bio and should be confirmed before relying on it. One tracked appearance is captioned only as "Untitled case," so no details are available for it.