Mark H. Churchill is an attorney in Holland & Knight’s Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia offices, and a member of the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Mr. Churchill represents clients in complex commercial litigation and disputes, and has served as lead trial counsel in federal, state, administrative and arbitration proceedings. He handles a wide array of complex civil litigation matters, including those involving civil fraud, class action defense, contract, employee non-competition covenants, energy, government contracts, healthcare fraud (including False Claims Act litigation), intellectual property (including patent infringement, trademark and copyright), internal investigations, product liability, securities, tax, and trade secret disputes.
Prominent among Mr. Churchill's trial work have been a number of landmark tax cases concerning the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax exemption for "students," including the successful defense of a class action lawsuit brought against a teaching hospital by former medical residents in training.
Mr. Churchill has significant Lanham Act litigation experience, including representing a number of clients in federal district court. He also has extensive experience with alternative dispute resolution (ADR) matters and private arbitration proceedings.
In addition, Mr. Churchill places an emphasis on pro bono service. Most recently, he represented a group of plaintiffs in their successful claims brought in the Eastern District of Virginia under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Prior pro bono representations have included child custody, support, and abuse and neglect merits hearings before the Domestic Relations Branch of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Churchill served for five years as the practice group leader of a large international law firm’s Washington, D.C., civil litigation group.
After law school, Mr. Churchill clerked for the Honorable James P. Jones of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
