Max Tribble is recognized as one of the premier trial lawyers in America. A permanent member of Susman Godfrey’s Executive Committee, Tribble has obtained momentous victories for plaintiffs and defendants in a diverse range of commercial lawsuits.
Tribble has handled over a hundred cases across a variety of practice areas including misappropriation of trade secrets, trusts & estate, law, patent infringement, insurance law, breach of contract, bankruptcy, fraud, shareholder rights, antitrust, product defect, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and tax law. Likewise, Tribble’s work has spanned across a diverse range of industries. He has faced off and won against industry giants such as Apple, Samsung, American Express, Oppenheimer, Comcast, Lehman Brothers, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Wyeth Labs, IBM, AMD, Oracle, and TSMC.
Lawdragon Honors
A depended-upon IP trial whiz, Tribble won a $65.7 million jury verdict on behalf of repeat client, Paltalk Holdings, a global communications software innovator, in a patent infringement lawsuit against Cisco Systems for Webex’s audio server technology. He previously secured patent wins for Paltalk in litigation against Sony, Activision and Microsoft.
Just a few months before the Paltalk win, Tribble won a $37.5 million verdict for Atlas Global Technologies in its patent infringement case against Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer TP-Link. A Texas jury issued the verdict against TP-Link for infringing five patents for wireless routers that meet an industry standard known as “WiFi 6,” which was developed to provide fast, efficient internet connections for high-density locations such as offices, shopping malls and apartment buildings. Following a five-day trial and just a few hours of deliberations, the jury determined TP-Link owes Atlas $37,481,264 in damages. Read more
Tribble represented MicroUnity in a hard-fought patent infringement action against Intel and forced Intel to pay his client $300 million to license the MicroUnity patents. In follow-up cases, Tribble represented MicroUnity in cases against Apple, Samsung, AMD, and Texas Instruments—each of which also paid to license the MicroUnity patents.
Tribble is widely recognized for his litigation savvy. Tribble has been named among Lawdragons’s List of the Top 500 Attorneys in America for over ten years, earning him title of “Legend” by the prestigious legal publication in 2021.
Tribble previously served on a special committee appointed to propose local rule changes in the Eastern District of Texas concerning discovery in patent cases.
