Ian Hansen

Ian joined Shook in the fall of 2018 after graduating with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School. As a member of the firm’s business litigation group, Ian has accrued deep hands-on experience in virtually all aspects of complex commercial litigation. Known as a strong legal writer, Ian has acted as lead strategist, researcher, and drafter on all manner of briefing in both state and federal court at the trial and appellate levels. Ian has taken and defended many depositions, including corporate-witness and expert depositions. Ian also has executed and managed discovery efforts in large and complex cases, led negotiations with opposing counsel and drafted multiple winning discovery motions. Ian also appears in court regularly and has argued multiple substantive and dispositive motions. Among others, Ian argued before the Third Circuit in a high-stakes federal antitrust suit in 2022. In more recent years, Ian has served as lead case manager in multiple cases, leading everything from client communications to internal team meetings and task delegation.

Ian’s practice encompasses a wide range of substantive areas, including contractual disputes, trade secret misappropriation, copyright, antitrust, data privacy, class action defense and complex long-tail insurance coverage disputes.    

As an undergraduate, Ian majored in political science and gained proficiency in statistical programs and regression analysis, as well as organizing, maintaining and merging large electronic data sets. He also co-authored a peer-reviewed article on the findings of a survey measuring the effects of governmental transparency efforts on public trust in Lima, Peru, published in the British Journal of Political Science.

Ian is fluent in Spanish, certified at the “Professional” level of proficiency by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. He served as a missionary in Chile from 2009 to 2011. Before entering the legal profession, Ian was a high school Spanish teacher at a public high school in Philadelphia where he coached the school’s baseball team.