• James R. Asperger

    Equity Partner / Los Angeles

  • Tel +86-21-6061-3463

    Email qinchao@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Blockchain and Digital Asset Practice,Global Asset Recovery Practice,Investment Fund Litigation,Investment Advisor & Asset Manager Litigation,Blockchain,Fraud & Asset Recovery

James R. Asperger

Jim Asperger is a leading national trial attorney and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been repeatedly recognized in Chambers USA - America’s Leading Business Lawyers as a leading lawyer in the field of White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations; The Best Lawyers in America, for “Bet-the-Company and Commercial Litigation”; The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers; as a Southern California “Super Lawyer” in the fields of business litigation and Bet-The-Company Litigation, and as a Top Trial Lawyer in Los Angeles by the LA Business Journal. Chambers USA ranks Jim in Band One for White Collar Crime & Government Investigations and praises him as “‘an established star’ and ‘a brilliant courtroom lawyer,’ according to clients, who count upon his ‘proactive and strategic thinking’ in a wide array of white-collar criminal matters.” Chambers also recognizes him as “an exceptional talent” and “a superb choice to handle high-stakes criminal trials and investigations,” whose “clients comment ‘he’s practical and he understands the client and business realities.’” Jim has been named by The Daily Journal as among the “Top 100 Attorneys” in California, and by InterContinental Finance Magazine as one of the top 500 lawyers in the world. Jim has also been recognized as a 2018 Top Rated Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law by Corporate Counsel and The American Lawyer. Who’s Who Legal has ranked him for Business Crime Defence 2019. Jim recently received the American Lawyer “Litigator of the Week” award for obtaining a $1.1 billion jury verdict on behalf of the California Institute of Technology in a patent infringement trial against Apple and Broadcom Corporation.

  • Notable Representations

    Jim is co-lead counsel for the California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”) in patent infringement action against Apple and Broadcom for infringement of Caltech patents involving powerful error correction codes called Irregular Repeat Accumulate (“IRA”) codes. Earlier this year, after a two and a half week trial, Jim obtained a federal recent jury award for Caltech of over $1.1 billion for Apple’s and Broadcom’s infringement of these patents. The technology covered by these patents improves the operations of Apple products such as iPhones, iPads, iMacs, and other Apple devices by making their WiFi transmissions more reliable and error free. This is the largest jury award this year and sixth largest jury award in a patent trial ever.

    Jim represented AIG in its successful lawsuit against Bank of America, Countrywide and Merrill Lynch for their alleged roles in perpetrating a massive fraud in marketing mortgage-backed securities, resulting in a nine-figure settlement for AIG.

    Jim was co-lead counsel for the California Institute of Technology in this patent infringement action involving the use of Caltech’s patented IRA codes in satellite technology. After the Court denied defendants motions alleging that the claims were not patent eligible and not invalid, the matter settled.

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    The State Bar of California

    The Bar of District of Columbia

    The State Bar of New York

  • Education

    University of California, Los Angeles (J.D.)

    University of California, Davis (B.A.)