Litigation Double Play: Winning on Appeal and How to Know if Your Litigator is Failing You

Chris Arledge has been trying intellectual property and other complex business disputes for twenty years.

Chris has landed multimillion-dollar verdicts for plaintiffs in a wide range of cases involving patents, trademarks, licensing agreements, and other commercial disputes, as well as defense verdicts for defendants. He has taught trial advocacy and deposition skills through his own programs and through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, including programs at some of the largest, most prestigious law firms in the country. Chris is also a member of the faculty for the Advanced Advocacy Course for barristers in Dublin, Ireland, and for the Advanced International Advocacy Course at Oxford University. Chris has also taught the Art of Persuasion for Lawyers and Taking and Defending Depositions at Chapman University School of Law. His series of continuing legal education presentations on persuasion and advocacy have drawn rave reviews.

Chris’s trial work has been praised by judges and opposing counsel, with one federal judge describing Chris’s closing argument as “one of the best closing arguments [he has] seen in 40 years” and another California Superior Court judge declaring that Chris’s “cross-examination of the plaintiff was the most riveting examination [he’s] seen in any trial … exquisite work.”

After graduating from law school at the University of Southern California, Chris clerked for the Honorable Charles Wiggins on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and spent three years as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers before co-founding the law firm One LLP in Southern California. Chris is currently a partner at the Los Angeles-based trial boutique Browne George Ross LLP.

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One, LLP, and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Peter graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.