Raymond P. Niro is a nationally recognized trial attorney specializing in the enforcement of patent, trade secret and related intellectual property rights. Mr. Niro has been trial counsel in hundreds of intellectual property cases. In 1997, he was named by The National Law Journal as one of the ten top trial attorneys in the United States and, in 1999, one of the ten "heavy hitter" litigators in the State of Illinois. Since 1996, Mr. Niro has won verdicts and settlements for his clients totaling more than $800 million. Last year, Mr. Niro tried 6% of all the patent cases that went to verdict in 2006 and the first six months of 2007, recovering the 11th, 15th and 35th highest verdicts in that time, each resulting in a finding of willful infringement.