Michael J. Songer

Michael J. Songer is a trial lawyer and partner in White & Case's Washington, DC office and is a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property Group. His practice focuses on complex technology disputes in a wide variety of areas, primarily trade secrets, patents, and complex commercial disputes.

Mike has represented a broad range of clients and has tried numerous cases involving licensing arrangements, trade secrets, patents and copyrights, as well as complex commercial disputes. He has been involved in many high-profile cases. Mike was the lead trial attorney for DuPont in a precedent-setting trade secret case involving the Kevlar® product, and obtained a US$920 million verdict in damages, the largest contested jury trade secret verdict at the time. He also obtained a US$34 million jury verdict in a patent case for LifeNet Health in a case involving soft tissue grafts. That judgment was recognized as one of the "Top 100 Verdicts" by the National Law Journal and the largest jury verdict in Virginia for that year.

Mike has over 25 years of experience in the broad area of technology law and litigation. In addition to his trial work, Mike has conducted work in a wide range of technology and legal areas, including due diligence reviews, IP portfolio valuations, software licensing, digital rights evaluations, privacy and cybersecurity. He has an expertise in "Internet Law" and regularly addresses speech, defamation, content rights disputes, service provider liability, IoT matters and other emerging technology disputes.

Mike is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught the "Law of Cyberspace" since 1999.