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Lee Bromberg is co-founder of Bromberg & Sunstein and chairs our Litigation Practice Group. One of our nation’s leading intellectual property litigators and an accomplished trial strategist, Lee has successfully handled a wide range of technology-based disputes, including numerous patent infringement actions, and trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition and related cases in high technology areas. Lee’s work as trial counsel led to one of the largest IP verdicts in Massachusetts in 2005 and the largest in 2006. During that same time period, he also prevailed in a technology license arbitration which produced a recovery well into eight figures for his client. Experience Lee was lead trial attorney for the plaintiff First Act in a suit for false advertising in violation of the Lanham Act, commercial disparagement and interference with contractual relations. The jury verdict of $20.7 million was the largest financial judgment in music industry history, according to MusicTrades Magazine. The next year, Lee teamed with Kaye Scholer of New York to obtain a $65 million patent infringement verdict for Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. against Eli Lilly and Company; the largest verdict of the year in Massachusetts. In 2006, he obtained a technology license arbitration award well into eight figures, including an award of attorney fees, and upheld it against challenge in the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. | 