Tim Best, Partner at Gibson Dunn

Today, my guest is Tim Best, a Partner at Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. In 2017, Tim was selected as a Rising Star by Law360, a list that highlights top legal talent under the age of 40.  Tim was one of the five life sciences lawyers honored by Law360  in recognition of his scientific savvy guiding major drugmakers through high-stakes patent cases.

Tim’s patent litigation experience has spanned work for clients in a variety of technological fields, including biotechnology and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, image processing, semiconductor manufacture, and business methods.  Tim earned his JD from the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology where his work included organic syntheses of DNA-binding small molecules, as well as the assessment of those molecules’ in vitro and in vivo activity using molecular biology and cellular biology techniques.