Michael R. Gottfried

is the managing partner of Duane Morris' Boston office and a member of the firm's national governing Partners Board. Mr. Gottfried is an active trial lawyer with more than 30 years of experience handling cases in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels. He has argued appeals in the United States Courts of Appeal for the Federal, First and Third Circuits and in the appellate courts of Massachusetts and Maine.

He regularly tries trade secret disputes, unfair and deceptive trade practice cases brought under M. G. L. c. 93A, patent, trademark and copyright infringement matters and licensing disputes. Mr. Gottfried has litigated more than 25 cases involving noncompetition agreements, many of which were successfully resolved in their earliest stages after preliminary injunction hearings. He defends class actions and represents clients in contract and business tort disputes, including minority shareholder and director and officer cases. His experience also includes multiple cases for health care providers and vendors in a variety of contexts ranging from DOJ and FTC matters to payer disputes.

In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business included Mr. Gottfried in its listing of leading IP lawyers in Massachusetts. He has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the field of commercial litigation in Boston Magazine from 2004-2018. He has been rated an AV Preeminent Attorney - Judicial and Bar Editions by Martindale Hubbell.

Admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, he is a member of the Boston Bar Association and The District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Gottfried is a 1983 graduate of The National Law Center of The George Washington University with honors and a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University.

Resume

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
-Managing Partner, Boston Office 2012-present
-Partner, 1999-present
•Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston, Massachusetts
- Partner, 1990-1999
-- Chairman, Business Litigation Department
- Associate, 1985-1990
•Thompson, Hine and Flory, Washington, D.C.
- Associate, 1983-1985

Honors and Awards

•Listed in New England's Top Rated Lawyers, The National Law Journal, 2019

•Listed as a Top Rated Lawyer in Healthcare by American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell , 2013
•Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2009, 2010 and 2011

•Named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the field of commercial litigation by Boston magazine, 2004-2019

•Listed in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition for Business Litigation, 2009, 2010, 2015
•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Civic and Charitable Activities

•Mock Trial Advisor Phillips Academy-Andover, 2008-2011
•Cub Master, Pack 89, Boy Scouts of America, North Andover, MA, 1994-2000

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Speaker, Negotiating and Enforcing Protective Orders in Trade Secret Cases, Boston Bar Association, June 9, 2016
•Speaker, Trade Secret Law 2015, 18th Annual New England Conference Intellectual Property Law 2015, MCLE, June 15, 2015

Selected Publications

•Quoted in Defendants Hit With $1.1M Sanction for 'Fraud on Court', Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, August 14, 2017
•Featured in Default Judgment for Company in Trade Secret Case, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, April 14, 2014