Theodore K. Cheng joins the Firm as Partner practicing in commercial litigation, intellectual property, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
With over 15 years of experience handling a broad array of business disputes in federal and state courts, Mr. Cheng maintains a general litigation, counseling, and ADR practice, with a focus on copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and other intellectual property matters. He counsels high net-worth individuals and business entities in industries as varied as high-tech, telecommunications, entertainment, consumer products, food and hospitality, retail, and financial services. Mr. Cheng typically formulates and advises clients and their in-house counsel on litigation and dispute resolution strategy, often striving to suggest innovative and creative ways to resolve conflicts. In addition to achieving favorable outcomes through motion practice and trials, he has successfully resolved numerous matters through facilitated negotiations, arbitrations, and mediations, including wage-and-hour disputes, breach of contract and negligence actions, trade secret theft, employment discrimination claims, and intellectual property infringement. Mr. Cheng also works with Resolute Systems, LLC to provide private mediation, arbitration, and ADR consulting services. Mr. Cheng received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his A.B. cum laude in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Julio M. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Honorable Ronald L. Buckwalter of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
