Paul Vickrey

A seasoned attorney with nearly three decades of experience, Paul Vickrey graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History from the University of Illinois in 1977 and subsequently earned a law degree from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1980. While attending Loyola, Paul Vickrey was a member of the Loyola Law Journal, the law school’s primary scholarly publication, which is distributed throughout the country’s law libraries, judges’ chambers, and various other legal organizations. A Partner at Niro, Haller & Niro, Ltd., in Chicago, Paul Vickrey represents a wide range of clients primarily in intellectual property cases, including patent, trademark, and copyright infringement; trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition; and related business torts. Before joining Niro, Haller & Niro, Paul Vickrey was a partner in a large Chicago law firm for a decade. During his career as an attorney, Mr. Vickrey has assembled an impressive record, including significant victories in jury trials held in federal and state courts. Many of his clients have received substantial awards. One of his more well-known cases was a fraud trial that resulted in a $100-million verdict against W.R. Grace & Co., a global specialty chemicals and materials company. In 2005, Paul Vickrey won two jury verdicts of patent infringement within a 21-day period. In another case, he served as lead trial counsel in a trade secret misappropriation case against Key Tronic Corporation in Seattle, Washington. Mr. Vickrey’s won a $19.2-million judgment for two inventors from Argentina who invented a computer mouse for concurrent pointing and scrolling. In conjunction with Ray Niro, Paul Vickrey also tried Sufrin v. Hosier, a jury trial in which the two attorneys defeated a $70-million claim brought against noted patent lawyer Gerald Hosier by his former law partner Barry Sufrin. Another notable success for Paul Vickrey took place during the jury trial C & F Packing Company v. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. (IBP), in which he and the firm won an $11-million judgment against IBP for misappropriation of trade secrets.