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Sarah Chapin Columbia, Esq., is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, where she is vice-chair of its worldwide Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Department, and co-chair of the Boston Intellectual Property Practice Group. Her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation including patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters and she also counsels clients on overall intellectual property strategy and positioning, including litigation avoidance. Ms. Columbia, who has been highly recognized as a leader in her field by Chambers USA, is the author of “Irreparable Harm and Injunctions,” 2007 Leadership Forum, PricewaterhouseCoopers, February 2007 and the co-author of “Beware Patent Trolls,” Risk Management Magazine, April 2006.

Blair M. Jacobs, Esq. is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in its Washington, D.C. office. A member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department, he focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and related antitrust disputes before federal district courts, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and the International Trade Commission. Mr. Jacobs, who previously served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and at the White House, where he worked for the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, lectures and writes on various topics including trial tactics and trial advocacy, patent litigation strategies and issues associated with electronic discovery. He teaches trial advocacy at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and served on the faculty of the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute while at the Department of Justice.