Bio

Chip Molster has had extensive experience as a trial lawyer in federal and state courts around the country for the past 40 years.

Chip began his career as a Law Clerk in the Eastern District of Virginia, and after 32 years of practice in Washington D.C. (including 20 years at the global law firm of Winston & Strawn LLP from 1996 to 2016), Chip launched his own law firm in July 2016.

Chip’s main areas of practice have been complex commercial litigation, including patent infringement litigation, antitrust litigation, corporate governance/shareholder and securities litigation, employment litigation, trade secrets litigation, trademark and copyright litigation, and numerous matters involving arbitration, mediation and alternative dispute resolution. Chip also provides general business counseling to a number of corporate clients, serves as outside General Counsel to a number of companies, and serves on several Boards of Directors.

Chip previously served as Chair and then an ex officio Member of the Virginia State Bar’s Special Committee on Technology and the Practice of Law, and currently serves as the Immediate Past President of the Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Section’s Board of Governors. Chip previously served as President of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and on that Board for many years. Chip is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Chip is a Permanent Member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, a member of the Planning Committee for Eastern District of Texas Bench-Bar Conference, and previously a member of the Virginia Bar Association’s Committee on Federal Judgeships in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Chip also serves as a Faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (regularly teaching trial advocacy for NITA at Georgetown University Law Center and privately), and regularly conducts CLE programs regarding various legal topics, including in the Eastern District of Virginia, the Eastern District of Texas, Washington, D.C., and various locations in Japan and China.

Charles B. Molster, III

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