Experts Directory

Valerie Roddy

Valerie Roddy’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation including patent litigation in federal courts and before the International Trade Commission.  She also has extensive experience in securities class action and shareholder derivative litigation, antitrust litigation, and consumer class action litigation.  Valerie frequently represents plaintiffs, helping patentees assert their patents against accused infringers and representing antitrust plaintiffs.  In addition to her work at the trial court level, Valerie has an active appellate practice and has authored [...]

Jesse R. Butler

Mr. Butler is a trial attorney and Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Appellate Practice. He has handled appeals throughout Florida and in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals court. His cases involve a wide-range of substantive areas of the law, including appeals involving final judgments, non-final orders, and petitions seeking extraordinary writs.  In 2018, Mr. Butler received the special distinction of being admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Butler’s trial and litigation [...]

Jonah M. Knobler

Jonah M. Knobler is a partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP in New York City.  Mr. Knobler brings his creative thinking and compelling writing to bear in helping his clients achieve precedent-setting appellate victories.  Mr. Knobler has briefed and/or argued appeals in federal and state intermediate courts, state courts of last resort, and the U.S. Supreme Court.  Highlights include: Convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to affirm the dismissal [...]