MoloLamken LLP

Ben Quarmby focuses on intellectual property litigation and technology disputes. He has appeared as lead trial counsel in federal and state trial courts, the International Trade Commission, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and in arbitration. Benchmark Litigation has highlighted Mr. Quarmby as a “future star” with “an ardent fan base among clients.” He is noted as being “super responsive” and “efficient,” with one client praising Mr. Quarmby’s ability to provide “practical solutions” to complex problems. Mr. Quarmby represents both domestic and international clients in high-stakes disputes. He has extensive expertise assisting French and Japanese companies with U.S. disputes. He teaches U.S. intellectual property law at the International Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) in France. He is fluent in French and is admitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Quarmby serves as a Director for the University of Bristol Foundation, whose mission includes the promotion of the University and its alumni's interests in the U.S. He also serves on NYU Langone's Family Advisory Council and its Diabetes Family Advisory Council. He is interested in all issues relating to Type 1 diabetes: medical, technological, social, and others.    

Jeffrey Lamken, a nationally recognized appellate practitioner, has argued 27 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and briefed dozens more on a wide range of topics, including administrative law, antitrust, bankruptcy, civil rights, criminal procedure, energy, intellectual property, searches and seizures, separation of powers, and telecommunications. He has handled matters in virtually all of the federal courts of appeals. He possesses particularly deep expertise in the specialized Federal Circuit. Mr. Lamken also develops, briefs, and argues critical motions in trial matters.  

Justin Shur, a former senior Justice Department prosecutor, is a partner in MoloLamken’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices. With nearly 25 years of first-chair trial experience, Mr. Shur has earned a national reputation for successfully representing clients in some of the most prominent white collar criminal matters and high-stakes business disputes. His clients have included Fortune 500 companies and other major businesses and organizations around the world and across a broad range of industries. Mr. Shur has also represented individuals in a variety of different fields, including CEOs and other corporate executives, a U.S. Cabinet Secretary, an Ambassador to the United Nations, a real estate mogul, an NFL team official, a tech entrepreneur, a fashion designer, and an Academy Award-winning actor. Mr. Shur specializes in representing clients in complex and sensitive investigations by prosecutors, regulatory agencies, and congressional committees, often under intense media scrutiny. His representations have included some of the most high-profile matters in recent years and have involved nearly every issue that has been the focus of government enforcement, including alleged violations of federal securities laws, corporate, tax, and accounting fraud, healthcare fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, antitrust violations, False Claims Act violations, money laundering, campaign finance violations, and public corruption.  

Justin Ellis litigates high-stakes business disputes from the filing of a complaint through appeal. He tries cases and argues appeals in federal and state courts, often on complex commercial and financial subjects. He has litigated in every level of the judicial system from state trial courts to the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Ellis has particular experience in bankruptcy, distressed debt, and structured finance litigation, with clients including corporations, hedge funds and asset managers, indenture trustees, family offices, and high net worth individuals. MoloLamken routinely handles cases with dozens of witnesses, massive document productions, and cutting-edge legal questions.  Clients turn to Justin to push these cases through to resolution.  And they depend on him to help distill technical, sprawling records into a clear – and compelling – story for trial.  Justin regularly works with a wide range of experts, graphics and jury consultants, and lawyers from multiple firms to create a unified and efficient fighting force for the client. Together with the MoloLamken team, he has helped recover over $2 billion in settlements and judgments for clients over the last five years.

Lauren Weinstein’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. She has particular expertise in antitrust litigation. Ms. Weinstein represents clients before the United States Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and other federal and state courts.

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Megan Cunniff Church is a highly accomplished trial lawyer who represents companies and individuals in high-stakes civil litigation and criminal and regulatory matters. She conducts corporate internal investigations in the U.S. and abroad, and she advises clients on crisis and risk management. As a former federal prosecutor, Ms. Church has extensive experience investigating, litigating, and successfully resolving white collar criminal and regulatory matters. She served as a Deputy Chief of the Financial Crimes section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where she prosecuted and supervised complex health care fraud, tax fraud, and corporate and financial crimes cases. She also served as a Deputy Chief of the General Crimes section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where she trained and supervised new prosecutors on federal criminal practice. In nearly a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney, Ms. Church investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal crimes, including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, public corruption, money laundering, narcotics and weapons violations, international drug trafficking, identity theft, cybercrimes, embezzlement, human trafficking, and organized crime. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned to the Public Corruption section, Ms. Church prosecuted and convicted numerous public officials and law enforcement officers for fraud, bribery, extortion, and tax offenses. In her white-collar practice at MoloLamken, Ms. Church has conducted internal investigations of publicly-traded companies, public agencies, and not-for-profit entities. She has represented corporate and government officials in investigations and prosecutions by various U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the Department of Justice, inspectors general, Congress, the SEC, the CFTC, and other government regulators. In addition to representing targets and subjects in criminal and regulatory investigations, Ms. Church has represented key witnesses during investigations and subsequent trials. Along with other members of the MoloLamken team, Ms. Church recently secured an acquittal in a campaign finance prosecution following a jury trial in federal court in Washington, D.C. In her civil practice, Ms. Church has represented plaintiffs and defendants in business disputes involving allegations of market manipulation, antitrust violations, regulatory violations, professional malpractice and misconduct, and breach of contract in federal and state courts around the country and in arbitration forums. Chambers and Partners says that Ms. Church “has an amazing reputation and is a versatile lawyer, working across many different industries.”  Lawdragon named her one of the 500 Leading Litigators in America.  Legal 500 recognizes Ms. Church for her white-collar work in cross-border investigations, as well as crisis and risk management. Crain’s Chicago Business included Ms. Church in its 40 Under 40 list. She has been named a Notable Woman Lawyer and Notable Trial Attorney by Crain’s Custom Media. Ms. Church has been recognized repeatedly as a leading white collar defense lawyer by publications including Super Lawyers, Leading Lawyers, and Best Lawyers in America. Ms. Church has tried 20 cases to verdict, and she has briefed and argued nearly a dozen federal circuit appeals. Ms. Church has taught trial advocacy at the University of Chicago Law School and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She currently serves on the Illinois Supreme Court's Committee on Character and Fitness. Previously Ms. Church was an associate with Baker & McKenzie and with McDermott Will & Emery. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable William J. Bauer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and to the Honorable Joan H. Lefkow of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.    

Michael Pattillo is an experienced appellate litigator. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and a state supreme court. Mr. Pattillo’s practice also includes critical motions and issue analysis at the trial level. Mr. Pattillo has extensive experience with appeals in patent cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has won cases setting precedent on major issues of patent law, including McRO, Inc. v. Namco Bandai Games America (patent-eligibility of software under 35 U.S.C. § 101) and Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. (standard for inequitable conduct). He has successfully defended patent infringement verdicts worth hundreds of millions of dollars; won appeals of inter partes review decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; and obtained affirmance of exclusion orders issued by the International Trade Commission. Mr. Pattillo also has experience in a wide variety of substantive areas beyond patent law, including the Federal Trade Commission Act, the False Claims Act, administrative law, securities fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, campaign finance, federal preemption, the dormant Commerce Clause, and mass torts.

Robert Kry’s practice focuses on trial and appellate litigation. He represents clients before the United States Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and other federal and state courts. His practice covers a broad array of subject matters, including sovereign immunity, arbitration, enforcement of arbitral awards, constitutional law, business litigation, securities fraud, and intellectual property.

Steven Molo, one of the country’s leading courtroom advocates, is a founding partner of the national litigation boutique MoloLamken LLP. He represents corporations, boards, funds, investors, inventors, and individuals in complex business litigation, white collar criminal matters, and IP litigation. His client base is international.

Steven Molo, one of the country’s leading courtroom advocates, is a founding partner of the national litigation boutique MoloLamken LLP. He represents corporations, boards, funds, investors, inventors, and individuals in complex business litigation, white collar criminal matters, and IP litigation. His client base is international.