Tottis, Kevin

For the better part of the past four decades, Kevin’s litigated commercial and intellectual property cases throughout the United States for foreign and domestic clients. He currently heads up TottisLaw, a Chicago litigation boutique he started after several years as a partner in a national law firm. For the second year in a row since Chambers inaugurated its Chicago “Regional Spotlight Guide” of small and midsized law firms, TottisLaw has been recognized for its IP practice.

 Kevin serves as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and is on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute. He’s an American Bar Foundation Life Fellow and for years has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer, a Leading Lawyer and a Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent-rated attorney.

 In addition to a stint on the AIPLA Board of Directors, Kevin’s chaired AIPLA’s Copyright Committee and the 2011 Mid-Winter Institute. For the past 15 years he’s routinely been part of the AIPLA delegation that meets with the U.S. Copyright Office and Congressional staff. Since 2023, he’s also served as one of the delegates for AIPLA’s annual IP in Europe trip. Currently, he’s an AIPLA Fellow and chairs the Association’s Public Appointments Committee and its APA Task Force. He’s on the steering committee of the U.S. group of the Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriètè Intellectuelle and is one of the U.S. representatives on AIPPI’s Copyright Law Committee. He also served on the executive committee of the Copyright Society and the board of the Lawyers Club of Chicago. Kevin received both his A.B. and J.D. from the University of Michigan.