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概述

Thomas Jirgal is a commercial litigator whose national practice focuses on advertising, intellectual property, and general litigation matters. He co-chairs Loeb & Loeb's nationally recognized Advertising Disputes practice group and is ranked as one of the top advertising and marketing litigators in the country by Chambers & Partners. 

Thomas has more than twenty years of experience representing clients in the entertainment, communications, consumer goods, personal care, food, automotive, and financial services industries in cases involving false advertising, trademark, copyright, trade secret, corporate espionage, contract, fiduciary duty, defamation, invasion of privacy, employment, civil forfeiture, class action, antitrust and unfair competition claims. He regularly represents clients in state and federal court, in private arbitration, and before the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division where he has served as lead counsel on over 35 cases within the last five years. He also counsels clients on advertising matters, including the substantiation needed for advertising claims, and the management, licensing and protection of intellectual property rights.

The advertising disputes in which Thomas is involved often turn on cutting-edge technological issues, and the effective presentation of complex testing and statistical analysis. As an essential part of his practice, Thomas regularly oversees the design and critique of consumer perception surveys that can be dispositive in an advertising dispute involving implied claims. He is a co-author of A Practical Guide to Comparative Advertising:  Dare to Compare.

  • Speaker, False Advertising Enforcement Actions: NAD v Litigation, Washington State Bar Association
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  • Speaker, Advertising Claims 101 – The Building Blocks of a Successfully Substantiated Advertising Campaign, ACI Advertising Claims Substantiation Conference
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  • The Advertising Disputes Playbook: Strategies for Navigating Competitive Advertising Disputes in Court and at NAD
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  • 36th Annual BAA Marketing Law Conference
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  • Society of Sensory Professionals 2014 Conference
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  • The 5th M.A.T.C.H Roundtable: The Mid-Year Checkup
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教育背景

  • University of Illinois College of Law, 法学博士, magna cum laude, Member, University of Illinois Law Review
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 文学学士

执业资格

  • 伊利诺伊州
  • 加利福尼亚州

学徒

  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, January 01, 1998

承认

  • Named in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, in Nationwide Advertising: Litigation (2019-2021) and Nationwide Advertising: NAD Proceedings (2022-2024)
  • Named "Illinois Super Lawyer" in Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Litigation (2016-2021) and Media & Advertising (2022-2024) by Thomson Reuters
  • Named in The Legal 500 US in Media, Technology and Telecoms: Marketing and Advertising (2013, 2017-2020) and Advertising and Marketing: Litigation (2022-2024), published by Legalease Limited and John Pritchard
  • Named among “Top Lawyers in Illinois” in Advertising & Media and Arts, Entertainment & Sports Law by the Leading Lawyers Network (2011-2018)
  • Extern, Honorable Harlington Wood, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit