Brent Ray
About Brent Ray
Brent Ray is a trial lawyer who has first-chaired multiple cases to verdict. He firmly believes in providing the utmost value to clients with diverse teams and creative thinking. Brent has served as lead counsel in over 25 cases and for industry-leading clients such as Intel, IBM, Shopify, PayPal, CME Group, Hologic, JPMorgan Chase and Citibank. Brent achieved success in nearly every major patent venue, including the Federal Circuit, the International Trade Commission, federal courts in Texas, California, New York and Illinois, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Brent has also authored a treatise titled the Trial Lawyer’s Guide to Post Grant Patent Proceedings (published by LexisNexis), which is entering its fourth year of publication. Brent devotes a significant amount of time to pro bono civil rights litigation, and has partnered with ACLU, NCLR and Lambda Legal on a variety of high impact cases. He was a core member of the same-sex marriage case the Seventh Circuit. Brent also led a team that won a preliminary injunction on behalf of all transgender prisoners in the state of Illinois seeking adequate medical treatment for gender dysphoria. Brent is an Adjunct Professor at Chicago-Kent School of Law teaching advanced Legal Writing focused on Intellectual Property issues. Brent is a member of the trial bar of the Northern District of Illinois.