Profile

Practice Areas: Mr. Johnson is the senior partner in Kirkland's San Francisco Intellectual Property Group. He is also a founding partner of both Kirkland's San Francisco and New York offices and the former head of Kirkland's New York Intellectual Property Group. He typically works in situations where intellectual property rights are crucial, where a client is entering into critical transactions with third parties, such as outsourcing major functions or where a new transaction structure may be required.

Personal: College of Law, London (Solicitors Final Exam, 1980); Cambridge University (B.A., Genetics, 1978); IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., 1984).