19 May 2026
Kieran Kieckhefer Joins Latham & Watkins as Partner in Bay Area Intellectual Property Litigation Practice
"Kieran Kieckhefer joins Latham & Watkins as a partner in its Bay Area Intellectual Property Litigation Practice, focusing on patent, trade secrets and copyright litigation in the technology sector."
Kieckhefer is a first-chair trial lawyer focused on high-stakes patent, trade secrets, and copyright litigation across the technology sector, with deep experience in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and fabrication, computer hardware, robotics and AI, and enterprise and cloud-based software. She leads complex intellectual property disputes from inception through appeal, serving as first chair in high-profile patent, trade secrets, breach of employment contract, and Lanham Act cases in federal district courts across multiple jurisdictions, and has significant appellate advocacy experience with a particular focus on the Federal Circuit.
She joins Latham from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in San Francisco and enters Latham as a partner. Kieckhefer received her JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a BS in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.