Hillel Parness is a partner with Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. and is a founder of the firm’s Manhattan office, which opened in 2010. Mr. Parness manages a wide variety of copyright, trademark and trade secret litigation matters, including music, software, new media, and Internet law infringement and licensing cases. In the course of his career, he has also spent significant time working on securities, product liability, white collar criminal and other complex commercial litigation matters.

He is an adjunct member of the IP faculty at Columbia University School of Law, where he has taught a seminar on Internet law since 2002. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the ABA’s Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments, the Board of Editors for Cyberspace Lawyer, and is a frequent writer and speaker on issues of litigation and intellectual property.

Mr. Parness is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third, Seventh and Federal Circuits, as well as the United States Supreme Court. He received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, and his undergraduate degree from Columbia College.