Richard Florsheim is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, chair of the firm’s China Practice, and a former member of the firm’s Management Committee. He is former chair of the firm’s Industry Teams and Intellectual Property Departments, and previously served as leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. For the past 20 years, Mr. Florsheim's practice has been devoted exclusively to the litigation and alternative dispute resolution of patent infringement and other intellectual property disputes.
Since 1974, Mr. Florsheim has devoted his professional career to the litigation of intellectual property cases and other complex civil litigation. He has tried over 20 cases before judges and juries. Mr. Florsheim has served as lead counsel in over 50 patent infringement cases involving products and services covering a broad range of technologies in various district courts, in the Court of Federal Claims and before the U.S. International Trade Commission. He has also argued over a dozen appeals from district court decisions in patent infringement litigations before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Florsheim was the chairman of the subcommittee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association responsible for drafting the AIPLA’s first model jury instructions for nationwide use in patent infringement litigation.
Mr. Florsheim has lectured on the subject of patent litigation at numerous national seminars and has authored or co-authored a number of publications on the subjects of patent law and patent litigation. He also has substantial experience in representing clients in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including the negotiation of litigation settlements and the conduct of arbitration proceedings, mediations and summary jury trials.
Mr. Florsheim has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system. He also is featured among 10 leading IP lawyers in the U.S. in Inside the Minds: Leading Intellectual Property Lawyers: IP Experts Share Their Knowledge on the Art & Science of Intellectual Property Law (Aspatore Books, March 2002). Mr. Florsheim is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Federal Circuit Bar Association, and the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the American Bar Association. He is listed in the current editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America®, Who’s Who in the World, International Who’s Who of Patent Lawyers, and the 2005-2012 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists. Mr. Florsheim was also named the 2013 Milwaukee Intellectual Property Litigation and Patent Litigation Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Florsheim is a 1971 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his J.D., magna cum laude (first in his class), from Marquette University Law School in 1974.