Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that the BTI Consulting Group has recognized partners Christopher Larus and Robert Ware as 2025 BTI Client Service All-Stars. Lawyers selected are viewed as “unsurpassed in their delivery of client service.”
Larus chairs the firm’s Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation practice and is the partner in charge of the Minneapolis office. With more than 25 years of experience, Larus is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who litigates complex cases involving patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and licensing disputes. He represents clients across the country in state and federal courts, and in national and international arbitration proceedings. Beyond the courtroom, Larus collaborates with clients to protect and maximize the value of their intellectual property through tailored licensing and enforcement strategies.
Larus is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, certified as a Civil Trial Law Specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association, and has been consistently recognized in Chambers USA, Super Lawyers®, and The Best Lawyers in America®.
Ware, leader of the firm’s Business Litigation practice and a past president of the Ohio State Bar Association, has 30 years of experience litigating and arbitrating contract, trade secret, unfair competition, copyright infringement, civil antitrust, false advertising and other complex business cases throughout the United States. While much of his litigation experience involves supply chain and distribution issues, he also has represented financial institutions, construction companies, nonprofits and design professionals, among other clients, in a variety of competition-related matters. Apart from litigation, Ware has assisted manufacturers and other clients regarding domestic and international product distribution and logistics arrangements, competitive issues arising from joint ventures and other collaborations, and licensing and transfers of intellectual property.
In addition to being listed in 2025 Crain’s Cleveland Business Notable Litigators & Trial Attorneys, Ware is recommended in the inaugural edition of The Legal 500 City Elite – Ohio for Commercial Disputes and recognized by Benchmark Litigation, Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America.
BTI Client Service All-Stars are embedded in client decision-making, understand business and operating context, bring new ideas clients haven’t seen before, operate in compressed time frames, and offer practicality in time to matter. The BTI Client Service All-Stars report is based solely on unprompted, confidential feedback from clients.