Brad Caldwell

Brad Caldwell is one of the nation’s leading trial lawyers focusing on patent infringement and complex commercial litigation for plaintiffs and defendants. His successes before judges, juries, and arbitration panels include cases involving digital media, telecommunications, computer networking, semiconductors, computer chips, data security, computer imaging, medical devices, enterprise software, banking technology, and oilfield services.

Brad has been named a “Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar” by Law360 twice, most recently following a $502.8 million verdict against Apple in 2020. He has also been named “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer magazine two separate times based on record-setting patent infringement verdicts against Apple. Those jury awards of $625.6 million and $302 million ranked as the nation’s 6th and 9th largest during 2016. A year earlier, he helped Smartflash LLC win a $532.9 million verdict against Apple, which was the year’s top Texas verdict, the largest intellectual property verdict nationally, and the third-largest U.S. verdict overall.

In addition to trying seven jury trials to verdict against Apple and winning them all, Brad has secured patent-infringement verdicts against Microsoft, Samsung, LG, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Depuy Synthes, and other companies with tremendous resources to pour into litigation. Overall, these verdicts total over $3 billion against businesses Brad’s clients believed were using their patented technologies without permission.

Before starting his legal career, Brad worked for a year as an electrical engineer at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, where he obtained a top-secret security clearance and was awarded multiple merit-based citations.