Complex problems don't always fit neatly into a practice area. Neither do we.
Insight is a litigation boutique for unusual, complicated and high-stakes disputes. The matters that demand experienced judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to master unfamiliar facts and technology.
OUR DIFFERENCE
The attorneys you hire are the attorneys who handle your case.
At Insight, senior-level involvement doesn't end after the initial meeting. Our clients work directly with experienced attorneys throughout their matters, from understanding the problem and developing strategy through discovery, trial and appeal.
No unnecessary layers. No handing the substance of the matter down a chain of junior lawyers.
THE KIND OF PROBLEMS WE LIKE
Some problems come with a playbook. We tend to prefer the ones that don't.
A dispute may involve unfamiliar technology, several overlapping areas of law, an industry we've never encountered before, or a problem hiding behind the obvious problem.
Those are often the matters where Insight is at its best.
Decades spent litigating technically complex disputes have taught us how to get up to speed quickly, work with experts, identify what matters, and make complicated ideas understandable. We bring that approach to all disputes.
DIFFERENT PROBLEMS. SAME DEDICATION.
Medical Technology
When a personal injury case becomes a technology case
What began as a claim involving the use of shockwave therapy developed into a dispute involving the medical device itself. Insight mastered the underlying technology and pursued the matter towards trial.
Confidential settlement before expert discovery.
Railroad Safety
Learning the technology was part of the job.
Insight represented an inventor in a dispute involving specialized railroad-safety technology unfamiliar to us when the engagement began. We learned it, litigated it, and pursued the matter to resolution.
Confidential settlement before trial.
Shareholder Dispute
A successful defense became a lasting relationship.
A shareholder dispute against an international telecommunications company and its directors resulted in the dismissal of the two directors we represented. The relationship expanded to advising the company's board in the underlying dispute and subsequent international litigation.
Dismissal of client.
EXPERIENCE ACROSS DISCIPLINES, NOT DEFINED BY THEM.
Complex Business & Commercial Litigation
High-stakes disputes involving businesses, founders, executives, and other stakeholders.
Intellectual Property & Technology
Patent, trademark, copyright, trade dress, licensing, and disputes in which understanding the technology is essential.
Class & Complex Actions
Sophisticated multi-party and class litigation requiring strategic management of complicated claims.
Product & Technology Claims
Matters in which products, devices, or emerging technologies become central to understnding liability.
At the Edge of Law & Technology
A Potential Landmark Patent Battle in Legal AI
Insight represents AI.Law in a patent infringement action against Eve Legal involving AI-powered legal document technology. Intelacia examines why the case could become an important early test of how AI-powered workflows can be protected under U.S. patent law, particularly where the claimed invention is not the underlying AI model, but the way AI is used to turn unstructured information into structured legal work product.
At the Intersection of Litigation and Corporate Risk
When the Dispute Extends Beyond the Underlying Lawsuit
Insight represents four directors of Navidea Biopharmaceuticals in ongoing shareholder litigation. The dispute has also raised a separate question with significant implications for directors and officers: when must D&O insurance cover the cost of defending them? Insurance Business examines the related coverage litigation and the potential implications for how D&O policy exclusions are interpreted.
SENIOR JUDGEMENT SHOULDN'T BE A PREMIUM UPGRADE
At Insight we are lean by design. We staff matters around what the case requires and not around maintaing laywers of associates. When a matter requires additional expertise or resouces, we assemble them around the problem.
Meet Insight's core team
Steven Ritcheson
Litigator. Problem Solver. Relentlessly curious.
As a 1994 Santa Clara University School of Law of Silicon Valley graduate, Steven has spent decades litigating complex disputes, much of that career in matters ranging from railroad safety, one of the first technologies to change the world to AI, the most recent technology to change the world. The common thread in his practice isn't a particular technology, approach, or cause of action, it's the challenge of understanding a difficult problem well enough to find the right way through it.
Jacqueline "Jackie" Knapp-Burt
Advocate. Counselor. Trusted partner.
Jackie Burt, a 2003 Georgia State University College of Law graduate, has spent more than two decades taking on disputes where the details matter and the stakes are personal. Her work has crossed technologies ranging from medical devices and GPS systems to gaming and computer technology, but she starts in the same place: understanding what matters most to the client. She brings persistence, practical judgment, and a deeply collaborative approach to finding the best path forward.
We should talk.
The most interesting matters rarely arrive with a roadmap. If you're facing an unusual, existential, or complicated dispute, we'd like to hear about it.
