Henry “Hank” B. Gutman (Co-Vice Chair)

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Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where he serves as Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, concentrating on complex, high-technology, intellectual property litigation. Since 1985, has served as lead counsel for Lotus, Intel, Daiichi Pharmaceuticals, Reuters, Verizon, Polaroid and other technology clients in a wide variety of major groundbreaking cases including Lotus v. Borland, which he argued before the United States Supreme Court.
Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is also a member of the Federal Bar Council, the American Bar Association, the Copyright Society of America, the AIPLA, the NYIPLA and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property and computer litigation subjects.
Appointed by New York's Governor to serve on the Judicial Screening Committee for the Second Department, which includes Brooklyn where he and his family reside, and he has long been active in civic affairs, recently as a key player in initiating Brooklyn Bridge Park and then as Chairman of its Board.
Graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (A.B. 1972) and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1975). Law clerk for the Hon. John F. Dooling, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Ninth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits and the courts of the State of New York.

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