Peter Schmidt

Background

About Peter Schmidt

Peter Schmidt is a partner in King & Spalding's Washington DC office and a member of the Trial and Global Disputes practice. He focuses on the finance, media, and technology industries, advising and representing clients in patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, business tort, and contract dispute matters. Peter’s work focuses on cases involving complex technical and financial issues, where he draws on his previous experience as a hardware and software engineer and as a financial consultant for McKinsey & Company. Peter has represented clients in a broad range of types and stages of litigation, and has extensive experience in case assessment; complaints and answers; discovery and fact gathering; non-infringement, infringement, invalidity, and validity contentions; claim construction; expert reports; depositions; motion practice (including discovery motions, summary judgment, and admissibility of evidence); trial; and appeals. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and with University and College Honors from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS/MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering; he also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.