Mike De Vries ’00 and fellow Kirkland & Ellis partner Adam Alper helped Samsung defeat the largest patent damages case in U.S. history, as a federal court rejected two infringement claims in the company’s semiconductor technology. The damages would have cleared the largest U.S. patent verdict by $1.5 billion. It was the seventh consecutive trial win for DeVries and Alper, named national Litigators of the Week by American Lawyer.