Name: claudia wilson frost
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Bio

Claudia Wilson Frost is a nationally recognized trial and appellate lawyer and strategist. She has led trial teams in well over 100 complex cases, has tried to conclusion over 40 cases as lead or co-lead counsel, has been lead counsel in numerous arbitration hearings and has argued dozens of cases to appellate courts throughout the country. Her complex commercial litigation matters have included substantial domestic and cross border patent litigation disputes, copyright and trade secrets disputes and complex litigation and appellate matters in the three areas on which Orrick focuses: Energy & Infrastructure, Technology & Innovation and Finance. Her energy disputes involve not only complex oil and gas and petrochemical matters in the upstream and downstream areas, but also renewable energy and other energy transition issues. Her counseling and strategic advice in the patent area includes assisting clients in creating, refining and implementing cross border acquisition and enforcement strategies based on hands on experience and several decades long focus on comparative global patent law systems including the recently launched Unified Patent Court.

Experience:

IP litigation partner in global law firms for 20 years

US co-chair and global co-chair of patent practice for 400+ person IP group in one of largest firms in the world

Current vice-chair of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, Global Series, speaker/moderator at Global Series events in South Korea, Shanghai, London, Paris, Geneva, Amsterdam, and Ottawa on global patent and IP issues.

Extensive leadership and management roles, including as member of management committees of several major firms, founding partner of own boutique firm and founding partner of the Orrick Houston office in 2016

Co-leader trial department and founder appellate department at major Texas firm

Complex Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Appeals: Areas of Focus

Patent

Trade Secrets

Mass Actions and Torts

Property Rights Disputes

Oil and Gas

Energy Transition

Selected Recognitions

Ms. Frost has been extensively recognized for her practice. Chambers USA notes, “Clients admired [this] ‘highly responsive and fabulous strategist’ for her powers of ‘brilliant analysis.’ She has a trial background and a depth of appellate experience.” The Legal 500 has called her “One of Best Known Names in the Field.” Ms. Frost was featured in 2016 as a “Trial Pro” by Law360 and has been recognized in Euromoney’s Guide to Leading US Litigators, Guide to Leading World Litigators and Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law. She has been named a Texas Super Lawyer for over a decade and is in the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Texas and Top 100 Lawyers in Houston. In the patent area, she was named one of Law360’s “20 Most Influential Woman in IP Law” and has been included as an IPStar and listed in IAM Patent 1000 for many years.

Based on her trial and appellate experience, she has been elected to membership in the ABA Fellow, American Board of Trial Advocates and in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. She is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both Civil Trial and Civil Appellate Law.

Throughout her career, Claudia has given back to the profession and the community, including as a founder and former member of the Executive Committee of The Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas Law School and as a founding member and Master of the Bench (emeritus) in the Atlas IP Inn of Court in Houston.

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