About Me I am an intellectual property litigator at Callahan & Blaine in Orange County. The firm is widely recognized as one of premier litigation firms on the West Coast, and regular takes complex business disputes to trial in state and federal courts. Among its many other accomplishments, the firm is credited with having won the highest jury verdict in Orange County history ($934 million).
My practice has evolved significantly since my graduation from Northwestern in 1995. While my initial focus was on bank fraud and tax fraud in federal court, over the years that has slowly evolved to a focus on fraud in all its aspects, and led me to trade secret misappropriation and the inevitable disputes between companies and their former employees regarding copyright and patent ownership. Once moving to the Bay Area in 2000 I became involved in a series of intellectual property cases involving theft of trade secrets, parody as a defense to copyright infringement, and a novel application of the the unfair competition laws to internet search engine optimization. As I became more exposed to various aspects of intellectual property law over the last decade, my practice evolved as well; even where the issues bear something in common with my original practice, it is now fraud with technological overtones.
My practice is not limited to intellectual property, however, and involves a number of different areas of law. For example, for ten years was deeply involved in a toxic tort case which I tried (and won) twice, and which we prevailed on in appeal for the second time. Another example — a number of years ago I defended a hedge fund and its principal in a self-dealing case brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which was dismissed on terms favorable to my clients. Currently, I am defending a series of class action lawsuits involving allegations of false advertising and unfair competition. So while this particular blog is dedicated to intellectual property, other unrelated topics may appear on these pages from time to time, since in law — as in life — variety is the cure for monotony.
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