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John Thorne is a partner at Kellogg Hansen.  He represents technology companies, media firms, newspaper publishers, financial services providers, app developers, and consumer products companies in antitrust, intellectual property, and other commercial litigation.

Prior to joining Kellogg Hansen, he was Verizon’s Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel in charge of intellectual property, competition, and privacy.  Global Counsel Awards named his IP group one of the top five in the world in 2008 and 2010, and the world’s best in 2011.  Global Counsel Awards named him the world’s best corporate competition lawyer in 2009.

He graduated summa cum laude with high honors in mathematics from Kenyon College in 1978.  He received a J.D. cum laude from Northwestern Law School in 1981, then clerked for Chief Judge Walter Cummings of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Thorne and his wife Sara live in Washington, DC and have four children.