Samantha Lerner

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Co-chair of Winston’s Complex Commercial Litigation Practice and co-leader of the Chicago Litigation Group, Samantha Lerner is a trial lawyer who concentrates her practice on complex commercial and patent litigation. Her lengthy service as chair of the Chicago office chapter of Winston’s Women’s Leadership Initiative demonstrates her commitment to advancing gender diversity and inclusion in the legal community.

Samantha has spent her career litigating complex commercial cases for Fortune 500 companies. She has represented clients in a variety of industries, including agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, financial services, healthcare, and insurance, and has litigated breach-of-contract, trade-secret-theft, Commodities Exchange Act, RICO, antitrust, employment, and fraud cases. Samantha has also represented clients in patent cases in courts across the country involving medical devices and instruments, telephone and computer technology, and pharmaceuticals.

Having spent her entire career at Winston, Samantha is deeply committed to the firm, its strategic vision, and the promotion, advancement, and retention of its talented attorneys, with a particular focus on diversity and inclusion.