Deborah E. Fishman Esq.

Arnold & Porter
Fishman, Deborah E.


Deborah E. Fishman is a Silicon Valley-based partner in Arnold & Porter's Intellectual Property Practice. She specializes in technology litigation with an emphasis on patent litigation practice. Her experience also includes antitrust, trade secrets, and general commercial litigation. She has successfully represented Fortune 500 companies in critical patent cases and commercial disputes and has litigated five lawsuits worth more than $1 billion through trial. She handles cases involving biotechnology and pharmaceutical patents and has provided strategic litigation counseling and analysis for biotech and IT clients. Ms. Fishman also has represented clients before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Section 337 proceedings.

Ms. Fishman received her B.S. from Stanford University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

She is an Editor-in-Chief of the Fourth Edition of the ABA/Bloomberg BNA treatise Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook.