Wesley L. White

Education

J.D., Harvard Law School, J.D. (2014)
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2006)
B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Applied Physics, Morehouse College (2006)

Admissions

New York

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 

Wesley White is a trial attorney who represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes patent disputes. His experience resolving complex and strategic problems at the intersection of law, finance, and technology allows him to filter out noise, identify the issues that will resonate most with juries and judges at trial, and present those issues in a relatable manner that helps him secure favorable results for his clients both in and out of the courtroom. His achievements have earned him recognition as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in intellectual property disputes. 

Wesley has guided clients through all stages of litigation, including conducting pre-suit diligence, overseeing fact and expert discovery, taking and defending fact and expert depositions, drafting claim construction briefs, drafting evidentiary and dispositive motions, and drafting pre- and post-trial briefs. 

He has handled complex disputes across a diverse range of technology sectors, including life sciences, computer hardware and software, medical and surgical devices, networking devices, virtualization and cloud computing, antennas, encryption and compression technology, VOIP telephony, flash memory, e-commerce platforms, and web and mobile applications. He has represented clients in federal courts across the country, including working on trial teams in Delaware and the Eastern District of Texas.  

Notably, Wesley played a key role on the RJLF trial team that secured a $236 million patent infringement verdict for Densify against tech giant VMware—a verdict recognized in The National Law Journal’s 2021 “Verdicts Hall of Fame” (7th largest verdict in past five years) and among the “Top 100 Verdicts of 2020” (8th largest verdict in the country). Following a nine-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, jurors found that VMware willfully infringed two Densify patents which cover virtualization technology.

As case manager on the Densify trial team, Wesley was responsible for managing an accelerated trial schedule, leading discovery efforts, and taking critical depositions, including deposing VMware’s technical expert and defending the deposition of Densify’s key technical expert. Wesley later directed the rebuttal examination of that same key technical expert at trial, the final witness before the case was sent to the jury.

Wesley also devotes significant time to his pro bono practice. He currently provides pro bono representation to June and Angie Provost of Provost Farm, an agriculture operation and activism hub founded to preserve the ancestral legacies of South Louisiana’s Black and Brown farmers. The Provosts’ years-long dispute in fighting for their land and livelihood was featured in The New York Times’ award-winning “1619” series. 

Wesley earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was the Business & Bluebook Chair on the Harvard Law Review, and he began his legal career as an associate at Desmarais LLP. Before embarking on his legal career, Wesley worked in the financial services industry as an associate with Goldman Sachs in New York and Chicago.