Nevin M. Gewertz

Nevin Gewertz is an accomplished trial lawyer who has received national recognition for his experience across a range of intellectual property and complex commercial cases. Nevin frequently represents major U.S. and international pharmaceutical, medical device, and other natural sciences companies in cases involving patent infringement, Lanham Act, breach of contract, and product liability claims. Nevin is also trial counsel in a variety of other complex matters, including for the former founders and employees of FanDuel in a lawsuit seeking damages for breaches of fiduciary duties by former members of the FanDuel board of directors and late-stage investors during a 2018 billion-plus dollar merger. Nevin also enjoys a vibrant pro bono practice. Notably, Nevin was selected as counsel by a consortium of 40+ bipartisan law professors and think tanks in a case involving the Executive Order attempting to strip federal funding from so called "sanctuary cities."

Nevin's accomplishments have been recognized by a number of legal publications, including Benchmark Litigation, Chicago Magazine, Illinois Super Lawyers and Illinois Leading Lawyers.

Nevin joined the firm in 2011 after clerkships with Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the United States court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Chief Judge Sarah S. Vance of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana. He graduated at the top of his class at The University of Chicago Law School, where he won the Hinton Moot Court Competition and was a member of the Law Review. Before that, Nevin graduated from Stanford University with Honors and as a Presidential Scholar, where he studied Biology and Political Science and did research on emerging stem cell therapies and genetic engineering.

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