Mr. Mills is the Alexandria Office Leader and the Co-Leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Team. He focuses his practice on technology and intellectual property-related torts and contract disputes; media-related counseling and litigation; white-collar criminal defense, and close corporation shareholder disputes. He has substantial experience advising and representing national media organizations on the full range of newsroom and courtroom access issues, privacy-related and newsgathering torts, and internet and computer privacy issues.

Mr. Mills has substantial trial experience in patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret-related litigation in federal courts across the nation and before the International Trade Commission. He also regularly advises and represents companies, universities, and governmental entities in technology-related contract and licensing disputes.

In addition to his technology and media practices, Mr. Mills has had significant experience and success in the area of white-collar criminal defense and governmental investigations. His cases include representing a Maryland attorney accused of 32 felony counts of immigration fraud (the attorney was acquitted at trial of all 32 counts); representing a Washington, D.C. think-tank in an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s Office of the organization’s past relationship with Hillary Clinton (the client was completely exonerated after a year-long investigation); and representing a local businessman wrongfully indicted for eight counts of heroin smuggling and money laundering (the government ultimately dropped all of the charges in the indictment).

Over the past ten years, Mr. Mills has developed a niche practice in the creative resolution of close corporation shareholder disputes involving disputes between founders or inter-generational ownership and control problems.

Mr. Mills is a certified mediator and serves as an arbitrator and hearing examiner for the Telecommunications Regulatory Board of Puerto Rico in interconnection agreement disputes. He is a founding member of the Pauline Newman IP American Inn of Court in Alexandria, Virginia.