Lathrop Gage

Law Firm Overview

Lathrop & Gage opened our Chicago office in 2009 as a central part of our strategic focus on expanding into the nation’s key business centers. The Chicago office exemplifies the client service approach that Lathrop & Gage takes in all 11 of our office locations nationwide: We offer top-tier service and capabilities at rates that are highly competitive in any part of the country, strongly reflecting our Midwestern affordability and sensibility. Lathrop & Gage’s Chicago practice is a value proposition that is highly appealing to in-house counsel, business executives, and boards of directors in a wide range of business sectors.

Specific areas of focus for the firm’s Chicago lawyers include:

• Intellectual property litigation involving trademark and trade dress infringement, copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and patent infringement and validity. 
• Traditional media law in defense of publishers, advertisers and other print industry clients, as well as broadcasters and a wide range of clients involved with mobile-phone-content marketing and Internet multimedia (including social networking sites and search engines) – all with issues that center on pre-publication/broadcast review, defamation, privacy, the right of publicity and access, data security, digital trespass and similar claims. 
• A wide variety of direct and class-action commercial litigation, including issues that involve insurance, banking, construction, employment, civil rights, telecommunications, internal investigations, and mass catastrophes and torts.

Members of our Chicago team have represented clients such as Macmillan Publishers, Barbara Ehrenreich, MySpace, Yahoo!, Google, Epic Advertising/Azoogle,  Corbis and AXIS PRO, as well as other public and private companies and individuals.

Areas of Practice

• Business Litigation
• Corporate & General Business
• Corporate Finance & Securities
• Intellectual Property
• Media
• Mergers & Acquisitions

Published Works

• Lathrop & Gage Furthers Active Involvement, Leadership in Chicago Bar Foundation, 2010
• Kansas City Business Journal: John Glassgow Joins Lathrop & Gage as Partner, 2010
• John A. Glassgow Joins Lathrop & Gage as Partner, 2010
• Lathrop & Gage Adds Chicago Office, 2009

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation & Appeals