Jill F. Lynch

Jill Lynch is Of Counsel at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, where she focuses her practice on complex business matters, commercial litigation, and intellectual property litigation. Ms. Lynch’s expansive litigation experience covers cases across a broad range of industries, including banking and financial services, technology, energy, healthcare, telecommunications, and wireless networking. She is uniquely skilled in identifying, developing, and executing case strategies for clients anticipating or engaging in litigation.

Prior to joining DGS, Ms. Lynch was Of Counsel in the Dallas office of a boutique litigation firm that handles business and intellectual property cases. She has counseled clients on mitigation of risk, viability of claims, and liability issues in significant business disputes involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, employment matters, allegations of infringement, fraud, and negligence. Earlier, she was a principal and shareholder in the Dallas office of a national litigation and trial firm, where she was named the first female shareholder. Ms. Lynch has represented Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, both plaintiffs and defendants, across various industries in business and IP cases. She has litigated bet-the-company IP and business cases on behalf of smaller companies and helped multiple clients secure verdicts in excess of $100 million.

Ms. Lynch received her J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and earned her B.A. in English from the University of Central Arkansas. During law school, she was a member of the national moot court team and served as an editor of the Arkansas Law Review. Previously, she was recognized among the “Best Lawyers Under 40” in Dallas by D Magazine. Ms. Lynch has also received numerous accolades as a Texas Super Lawyer “Rising Star,” a recognition program that identifies attorneys based on independent research and peer review nominations and evaluations.

Ms. Lynch is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Representative Experience

• Represented private equity company and its principal in case involving fraud and breach of fiduciary claims brought against former business associate.
• Represented investment firm in various litigation matters.
• Represented private equity firm in breach of contract case that resolved in client's favor on summary judgment.
• Represented Fortune 500 company in patent infringement case covering healthcare management software.
• Represented Fortune 100 technology company in disputes involving broad spectrum technology services.
• Represented Toronto-based company in infringement suit against Fortune 100 company relating to a method and system for manipulating architecture and content of a document separately from each other. Client prevailed at trial, on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Represented major pipeline company in citizen suit seeking to force the company to spend billions for alleged violations of federal regulations. Client won on summary judgment.
• Represented company in multiple infringement cases involving mobile email technology.