The University of San Diego will present Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP partner Vickie Turner, a 1982 graduate of the USD School of Law, with the Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award. Turner is one of 10 alumni who will be honored by USD at the annual Alumni Honors gala on April 28. Turner, a complex....
The San Diego-based law firm of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek has announced that Reginald “Reg” Vitek has assumed the role of Chairman of the Firm; Gregory A. Vega is now the firm’s Litigation Department Chair; and Sandra Joan Morris is the firm’s new Leader of the Family Law Practice. Robert Caplan will continue in his....
A Wilson Turner Kosmo trial team achieved a major appellate victory in an employment-retaliation case on behalf of national retailer Target Corporation (TGT-NYSE), finally bringing the case to a close. WTK partners Claudette Wilson and Emily Fox, and associate Mark Rein, successfully defended two post-trial orders in the Fourth District Court of Appeal. In its....
San Diego’s 2018 Super Lawyers List was announced earlier this month with a notable fourteen Wilson Turner Kosmo attorneys being selected for inclusion on the prestigious list to which no more than five percent of practicing regional attorneys are named. Three firm partners, Michael S. Kalt, Frederick W. Kosmo, Jr. and Claudette G. Wilson, were....
Fish & Richardson won a unanimous Federal Circuit opinion today that affirmed its June 2016 post-trial wipe-out of a $200 million jury verdict against client Gilead Sciences, Inc. after proving Merck had forfeited its right to assert its hepatitis C drug patents against Gilead because of litigation and business misconduct constituting unclean hands. The Federal....
Fish & RichardsonSan Diego-based principals Juanita Brooks and Jon Singer were named to the Daily Journal’s 2018 list of “Top Intellectual Property Lawyers” in California. Both Brooks and Singer have been named to the list multiple times. The publication highlighted recent high-profile cases that saw Brooks and Singer deliver extraordinary outcomes for clients in both....
Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith, LLP has announced that Scott Biel has joined the firm as a partner. Biel joins Solomon Ward’s expanding real estate department. With more 25 years of broad commercial real estate experience, his practice focuses on commercial lease transactions and lease‐related issues, particularly involving research and development (R&D) and manufacturing facilities of technology‐based companies.....
Fish & Richardson is donating $50,000 to civil legal aid organizations across the country – representing $140 per attorney – to honor and celebrate the legacy of Frederick Fish, the firm’s founder who was admitted to the bar 140 years ago in May 1878. Frederick Fish was one of the most well-known patent attorneys in....
Fish & Richardson has announced that three of its principals – Juanita Brooks, Dr. Teresa Lavoie, and Dorothy Whelan – were selected by Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) magazine as among the “Top 250 Women in IP” in the world, for the third consecutive year. According to MIP, the list “recognizes female practitioners in private practice....
Fish & Richardson principal Chad Shear has been named to San Diego Metro Magazine’s annual “Best Attorneys” list, which recognizes attorneys throughout San Diego for their exceptional professional accomplishments as well as their positive impact on the community. Shear is a leader in Fish’s life sciences and pharmaceutical litigation section and co-chair of the firm’s....