Emily Niles Named to Law360’s Top Attorneys Under 40

Robins Kaplan LLP is pleased to announce that partner Emily Niles has been recognized on Law360’s Rising Stars of 2024, a prestigious list of attorneys under 40 whose “accomplishments belie their age.” Niles was one of just five attorneys selected in the practice area of Intellectual Property Litigation and one of 158 attorneys in total selected from nearly 1,200 submissions.

Emily Niles is a trial attorney who represents clients in high-stakes intellectual property and business disputes. Niles has tried six cases in Federal Court since beginning practice in 2014, resulting in over $75 million in jury verdicts and over $100 million in judgments on behalf of her clients. She has litigated cases involving patent infringement, trade secrets misappropriation, business torts, individual torts, and breach of contract cases related to technology licensing, confidential and proprietary information, and non-competition and non-solicitations disputes. She is also a registered patent attorney and has experience with inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

In 2024, Niles helped lead the trial team that achieved a landmark $42.4 million jury verdict that increased to a $71.4 million judgment on behalf of client Willis Electric in a patent infringement dispute related to prelit artificial Christmas trees. This is believed to be the largest patent jury verdict in the District of Minnesota history. In 2023, she was a key member of the trial team that achieved a complete defense verdict on behalf of two individual founders and their company accused of infringing two software patents. In 2021, she was a key member of another trial team that obtained a $27.8 million verdict reported as the largest personal injury verdict in Minnesota history at that time.

View Niles’ Rising Stars feature here