Jim Badke

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JIM BADKE is an established lead trial counsel with numerous jury and bench trial victories in bet-the-company cases in courtrooms across the country.

Jim was honored by LMG Life Sciences as the 2021 “General Patent Litigator of the Year – New York” and by The National Law Journal as a 2020 “Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Trailblazer” for his work as an “agent of change” in high-profile intellectual property cases. The National Law Journal also honored Jim as a “Master of the Courtroom” and named him among the 2019 “Winning Litigators,” which featured “elite trial lawyers who took on high-stakes matters and won bet-the-company trials.” Jim was featured for leading a team that obtained a jury verdict and damages award of US$155 million for Bayer Healthcare on a biologics medication patent for the treatment of hemophilia. The verdict, which was named to The National Law Journal’s 2021 “Verdicts Hall of Fame,” ranks among the 10 largest patent verdicts in the District of Delaware over the past decade, and the largest biotech patent verdict in that Court. Jim also received the 2019 LMG Life Sciences Award for “Patent Impact Case of the Year” for his work on this same matter. Jim most recently was recognized by Managing IP in 2023 as a “New York Patent Star.”