Overview

Kazim Naqvi is a partner and trial lawyer in the Business Trial and Intellectual Property Practice Groups in the firm's Century City office. He serves as a member of the firm’s Trade Secrets Team, co-editor of the firm’s Trade Secrets Blog, Century City’s Diversity & Inclusion Office Work Working Group Leader, and a member of the Century City office’s recruiting committee.

Areas of Practice

Clients turn to Kazim to handle their most critical IP and business disputes, and Kazim prides himself in doing whatever it takes to achieve his clients’ business goals in an efficient manner.

Trade Secret/IP Litigation:

Kazim helps his clients protect and enforce their most valuable and sensitive assets. Kazim is one of Sheppard Mullin's go-to litigators for complex trade secret matters, often involving high-stakes disputes between competitors. He prosecutes and defends claims brought under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act (CUTSA), federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), and other state trade secret laws. He has expertise in all aspects of trade secret litigation, including identification of trade secrets, reasonable security measures, and damages.

Skilled in the courtroom, Kazim has substantial bench and trial experience, including recently serving as trial lead associate in a two-week federal court jury trial involving trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement claims. Kazim helped secure a significant ten-figure jury verdict in favor of his client awarding both compensatory and exemplary damages. Kazim also served as trial lead associate on a high-profile, month-long patent infringement and damages bench trial where he helped secure for his client the largest ever patent infringement award against the United States Government.

Outside of the litigation context, Kazim regularly counsels clients on how to protect their sensitive and proprietary information and technology.

Business Litigation:

Kazim’s practice also focuses on a wide variety of complex commercial and business litigation matters. He has a particular focus on business tort, partnership, shareholder, and restrictive covenant disputes.

Kazim is adept at managing all aspects of complex litigation matters, including developing and executing trial strategy, case management, large-scale discovery (including ESI and data preservation issues), taking depositions, working with expert and fact witnesses, and preparing and arguing substantive motions.

Kazim’s clients span across a range of industries, including manufacturing, aerospace, semiconductor, food and beverage, restaurant, industrial, fintech, medtech, virtual reality and creative agency industries.

Kazim also maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on children’s adoption cases with the Alliance for Children’s Rights.

Honors

Honors

Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Best Lawyers, 2025

Insights

Speaking Engagements

  • Speaker, "DEI Speaker Series," Loyola Law School, September 25, 2024

Events

Education

J.D., Loyola Law School, 2014, editor, International and Comparative Law Review

B.A., University of Southern California, 2011

Admissions

  • California
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