Hricik, David

Professor David Hricik received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arizona, and his law degree with Honors from Northwestern University School of Law.  He practiced with Baker Botts and litigation boutiques from 1988 to 2002, litigating cases primarily involving patent infringement, legal malpractice, and general complex commercial matters. 

In 2002, he joined Mercer University School of Law, where he has taught ethics, torts, remedies, patent law and litigation, civil procedure, and other courses.  In 2012-13, he served as law clerk to then-Chief Judge Randall R. Rader at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  He then rejoined Mercer and also became Of Counsel with Taylor English, where represented clients in patent, Lanham Act, legal malpractice, and complex litigation from 2013 to 2019.

He was elected as a member of the American Law Institute in 2016, as a Fellow of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and as a Fellow of the American Bar Association, and has served in leadership roles on ethics committees of the AIPLA and ABA.  He has authored the only treatise on ethical issues in patent litigation, co-authored the only treatise on ethical issues in patent prosecution, and provided hundreds of presentations on ethics and intellectual property law.  His articles and testimony have been adopted by both state and federal courts. 

He is now a solo practitioner, representing practitioners and others before the Office of Enrollment and Discipline and in other disciplinary matters, consulting with firms about ethical issues, and serving as an expert witness.  In 2021, he became a registered mediator.