Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

Intellectual Property

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Mark Sommers is frequently named as one of the nation’s elite trademark litigators and practitioners. Peer reviews and rankings, like World Trademark Review 1000 and The Legal 500, place him at the very pinnacle of the profession. Praise for Mark in the WTR 1000 is effusive: “Mark blends formidable legal skills with plain street-smarts. He is seasoned and comfortable in the court, and can distill down complicated issues and facts and then smoothly present them;” “he is a superlative lawyer, with superb legal know-how and an acute business sense;” “he is the perfect outside counsel. A battle-tested litigator, his skills are mature, and he operates with surgical precision...Mark is comfortable in court and has magnificent intuition;” ”...a lightning rod for praise, as one client states: ‘Simply put, I can think of no other attorney more creative, efficient and effective or for whom I have greater respect; he is the complete package: a convincing advocate, a masterful strategist and a real-world counsellor who adds tremendous value and exceeds even the loftiest expectations.’”

University of London, England LL.M., 1983

Northern Illinois University College of Law J.D., 1982

Ohio Wesleyan University B.A., Economics, 1978