Mr. Hutchinson, a partner at K&L/Gates handles a wide variety of litigation matters, including significant intellectual property and trade secrets issues, energy litigation, probate and trust claims, general commercial disputes, products liability and toxic torts, and securities litigation and arbitration. Mr. Hutchinson’s practice has focused on matters involving complex technical and scientific issues. In the leading expert evidence case in the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Christophersen v. Allied Signal, Mr. Hutchinson argued successfully before the en banc court. He has defended over one hundred cases involving alleged formaldehyde exposure. Mr. Hutchinson is a member of the American Bar Association, Dallas Bar Association, Dallas Bar Foundation, and Texas Bar Foundation and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has also been admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Hutchinson received his J.D.degree from Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law (1980) (cum laude, Order of the Coif, Texas Survey Editor, Southwestern Law Journal) and is a graduate of Bach School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been published extensively, including "'Reliability' Thresholds on the Admissibility of Expert Testimony Regarding Causation," AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Judicial Symposium on Scientific Evidence in the Courts, June 21, 2007, "A New Plague - Mold Litigation," paper commissioned by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, July 17, 2003, "Causation Requirements in Toxic Tort Cases," Texas Lawyer , November 13, 2000, “Expert Evidence in the Fifth Circuit,” Scientific Evidence Review , ABA Monograph No. 6 (2003) and ABA Monograph No. 4 (1999), and “Federal Rule of Evidence 701: The ‘Lay Physician’ and Other Myths,” 20 LJN’s Product Liability Law & Strategy , Sept. 2001.