Professional associations
- ABA
- AIChE
- NYIPLA
Firm details
Contact details
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: +1 212 351 3420
- Fax: +1 212 351 3401
- Website: http://www.desmaraisllp.com
Partner at Desmarais LLP
John M Desmarais is the founding partner of Desmarais LLP. In 1988, after graduating from New York University Law School, Mr Desmarais started his career at Fish & Neave. After practising in the area of IP litigation and counselling for several years, he left private practice to serve as an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York, where from 1992 to 1995 he tried criminal jury trials for the federal government. After leaving the government, Mr Desmarais returned to the practice of IP litigation at Fish & Neave, later joining the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. From 1997 to 2009 he was a partner at Kirkland, and he served as a member of the firm management committee from 2004 to 2009. After 13 years at Kirkland, he left to found IP trial boutique Desmarais LLP.
Mr Desmarais is a member of the Bars of California, New York, Washington DC, the US Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and various other federal district courts and courts of appeal. Mr Desmarais is also registered to practise before the USPTO. He obtained a degree in chemical engineering from Manhattan College and a law degree from New York University.