Richard McMillan, Jr. received his Bachelor's Degree from Princeton (1966), and his J.D. Degree from the University of Minnesota (1972), where he was Order of the Coif and a member of the Board of Editors, University of Minnesota Law Review.
Mr. McMillan is a trial lawyer, specializing in the field of business litigation, including intellectual property, antitrust and other complex commercial disputes. Mr. McMillan's extensive trial experience includes both jury and non-jury cases in federal and state courts, as well as before arbitration panels and administrative tribunals. He has handled class actions, multi-district actions, and multi-party proceedings throughout the country. He also has extensive experience regionally in the courts of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Mr. McMillan's recent victories have included patent infringement trials (yielding multi-million dollar verdicts), and the successful prosecution or defense of several other large actions, including numerous arbitrations. The damages at issue have been in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The venues for these actions have been throughout the United States and in Europe.
Mr. McMillan is a past Co-Director and Committee Chair of the American Bar Association Section on Litigation and has written extensively on a variety of litigation issues. He was selected in 2001, and again in 2004, to the "BTI Client Services All-Star Team for Law Firms," based on nominations for superior service compiled from Fortune 1000 companies by BTI Consulting Group. In 2003, he was selected by Legal Times as one of the Leading Litigators in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, various Courts of Appeal, and the District of Columbia.
Education
Princeton University, B.A., 1966
University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., 1972
- The Order of the Coif
Affiliations
Admitted to Practice: District of Columbia, Supreme Court of the United States, and various Courts of Appeals
Publications
"Solving the Procedural Quagmire for Testing Reverse Payment Settlements," Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology
(Spring 2010).
Co-Authors: Richard McMillan, Jr., Mary Bram and M. Brinkley Tappan.
"Developing and Testing A Winning Theory of The Case,"
(October 2006).
Author: Richard McMillan, Jr.
"Trying And Winning Patent (And Other Commercial) Cases,"
(2000).
Author: Richard McMillan, Jr.
"Explosives Antitrust Litigation Continues," Crowell & Moring Mining Law Monitor
(October 1998).
Co-Authors: Richard McMillan, Kent Gardiner and David M. Schnorrenberg.