Luke McLeroy

Luke McLeroy is Managing Member at LFM Firm, which he started in February 2025 with more than twenty years of experience as an intellectual property licensing executive, legal counsel, law professor, and neutral. During that time, Luke has been recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on intellectual property, both generally and with respect to standard-essential patents. Since completing mediation training in 2018, Luke has resolved many commercial disputes through alternative dispute resolution. He has also acted as a neutral expert in SEP licensing negotiations. Luke frequently volunteers at the Dallas County Dispute Resolution Center to mediate lawsuits in which one or more parties cannot afford to hire a lawyer. As an Adjunct Law Professor, Luke teaches Intellectual Property Licensing at the SMU Dedman School of Law and has been invited to speak on intellectual property and standard essential patents at events hosted by the American Bar Association, the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, the European Commission, the International Telecommunications Union, the Licensing Executives Society, Stanford Law School, Tilburg University, University College London, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Luke graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law.