Practice Areas

• Litigation

Education

• Williams College (B.A. 1992)
  • Cum Laude
• University of Texas School of Law (J.D., With Honors, Order of the Coif, 1997)

  • Associate Editor, Texas Law Review

Admissions

Bar Admissions

• California
• Texas (Inactive)

Court Admissions

• U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas

Related News

• Stein & Lubin Litigators Score Ninth Circuit Victory

Representative Matters

• Representing publicly-traded company against broker dealers in San Francisco Superior Court action for market manipulation arising from intentional naked short selling of company's stock. The case is set for trial in late 2011.
• Represented publicly-traded company in defamation and market manipulation action against stock analysts and hedge fund. The company prevailed on an anti-SLAPP motion at the trial court and appellate level. Overstock.com v. Gradient Analytics, et al., 151 C.A 4th 688 (2007). The case settled, resulting in both a retraction and a monetary settlement.
• Represented Bay Area property developer in obtaining dismissal of CERCLA claims.
• Represented The Toronto-Dominion Bank in obtaining summary judgment on claims arising from contested acquisition of an options trading firm.
• Represented a nationally-known trial lawyer in obtaining a substantial settlement related to a large purchase of misrepresented antiques.
• Represented Cisco Systems in obtaining a multimillion-dollar arbitration award against a former executive for breach of fiduciary duty and summary judgment on the executive’s defamation claim arising from statements in the Wall Street Journal.
• Represented Solidus Networks in obtaining summary judgment that affirmed the company’s ownership of key disputed patents.
• Represented Ronin Capital LLC in obtaining summary judgment in arbitration of partnership claims.
• Represented Hi-Tech Engineering in obtaining dismissal of Lanham Act claims based on patent invalidity.
• Represented Deloitte & Touche in obtaining dismissal of securities fraud claims.
• Represented Stern Grove Festival pro bono in obtaining take-nothing arbitration award. 
• Palmtree Acquisition Corp. v. Neely, 2011 WL 634592 (N.D. Cal. 2011) and 2010 WL 3910370 (N.D. Cal. 2010)
• Morrison & Foerster v. Momentous.ca Corp., 2008 WL 648481 (N.D. Cal. 2008)
• MJT Securities, LLC v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank, 2007 WL 1725421 (N.D. Cal. 2007) and 2006 WL 1236661 (9th Cir. 2006)
• Wilson v. Microfinancial, Inc. and Deloitte & Touche LLP, 2006 WL 1650971 (D. Mass. 2005)
• Bennett v. Cisco Systems, Inc., 2003 WL 1949616 (6th Cir. 2003)
• In re Conservatorship of Nadine Hathaway, 2002 WL 31859461 (Cal. Ct. App. 2002)