For more than twenty years Lexie White has focused her practice on finding solutions to legal problems, whether those can be found outside the courtroom or only in the hands of a jury. As lead trial counsel, she has secured multiple jury verdicts north of $100 million for plaintiffs. She also regularly lead the successful defense of claims seeking billions.
White's trials have taken her from Delaware federal court to the District of Columbia Superior Court, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and from all over Texas to California. White has argued on behalf of more than 100 defendants before the Joint Panel on Multidistrict Litigation while also representing plaintiffs before the ICC International Court of Arbitration. It brings her great satisfaction to achieve winning outcomes for my clients, as does learning a new practice area or industry. She will work to understand how to define a win, and then synthesize the nuanced and complex details of the case or legal problem into clear and compelling arguments and strategies.
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RECENT TRIAL WINS
For Dutch telecommunications company, KPN, White led a trial team including SG attorneys Tamar Lusztig, Hunter Vance and Eliza Finley to a $341 million jury verdict in a February 2024 breach of contract trial against Samsung.
Previously, on behalf of Orange, S.A. and 3G Licensing, White led a trial team including SG attorneys Andres Healy and Hunter Vance to another jury win, this time against HTC. A Delaware federal jury awarded one of the largest per-unit royalty rates—up to 74 cents per infringing device—in a case involving two patents declared essential to LTE wireless standards. Read more about that trial win here.
In another jury victory worth more than $100 million in past and future damages, White's team persuaded a federal jury to find Swedish telecom giant Ericsson had willfully infringed three patents related to cellular networking equipment. The jury awarded the entire past damages ask, and the court later ordered ongoing royalties for each infringing product Ericsson sold during the life of the patents.
In 2022, she secured a ruling on behalf of Capitol Hill Group in a contractual dispute with multiple Silver Point Capital affiliates. After a week-long trial in D.C. Superior Court, the court issued a ruling in the client’s favor worth more than $60 million in damages and interest—plus the full value of the client’s attorneys’ fees—while also issuing a take-nothing judgment as to $18 million in counterclaims brought against the client.
For the past ten years, White has represented Chevron as co-lead trial counsel in a series of lawsuits brought by the State of Louisiana, various Louisiana parishes and various private landowners. She has also defeated environmental claims seeking more than a billion in damages, in California state court, from the largest battery recycler in the world.
PRO BONO
White supports a variety of pro bono legal initiatives, including partnering with a team of civil rights attorneys and SG’s Neal Manne to secure a landmark injunction on constitutional grounds in a class action attacking unaffordable bail in the nation’s third largest county.
