Aaron Murphy is an FCPA partner with an international practice and includes compliance advice, internal investigations and negotiated resolutions with the Department of Justice and the SEC. He is experienced in international anti-corruption, fraud, antitrust, OFAC, healthcare, pharmaceutical, government contracting, and SEC compliance and investigations.
John Pierce has been described by Benchmark Plaintiff Litigation 2012 as “one of Quinn Emanuel’s most esteemed jury trial lawyers maintaining a 100% success rate in jury trials, arbitration and preliminary injunction proceedings.” He represents companies and individuals in high-stakes cases across a broad range of litigation matters, most notably in cases involving finance, securities and investment-related disputes.
Ranked by Chambers USA, Dan Rozansky’s practice is concentrated in the areas of entertainment, defamation, complex business litigation, class actions and issues affecting manufacturing industries. His practice include entertainment finance, anti-SLAPP motions, antitrust, unfair competition, trade secrets, surreptitious tape recording, reality television, profit participation, rights of privacy and publicity, partnership disputes and First Amendment issues.
The placement of a 21 attorney group including nine partners with Polsinelli from McKenna Long in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Partners Farah Nicol, Stephen Nichols, Barbara Safechuck, Matt Ashby, Susie Gilefsky, David Schultz, Ryan Landis, David Arthur and Anne Barnett all made the move. Nicol was the Team Leader of McKenna’s toxic tort practice in Los Angeles where she supervised more than 25 lawyers and 10 paralegals in the group. Counsel attorneys joining Polsinelli include Ellen Hurley, Alan J. Warfield, Margaret Johnson, Joe Greenslade, John Shimada, Deanna Mayer-Voziyan, Mary McKelvey and Melissa Berberoglu. Associates joining include Stephanie Bowlby, Lesa Meyers, Mark Hilliard and Angela Fones.
Zuzana Ikells litigation practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, with emphasis in the healthcare, health tech and technology and telecommunications industries. She has successfully defended her clients against dozens of consumer class actions involving federal and state consumer-protection statutes and privacy laws, the False Claims Act, and other complex business disputes.
Scott Smith, MD, practices IP counseling, patent portfolio analysis and management services to medical device companies and patent procurement, portfolio management, due diligence preparation, licensing negotiations, reexaminations, and freedom-to-operate opinions. He moved from Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear where he was the managing partner of the Silicon Valley Office.
Zhaoyang Li focuses his practice in U.S. IP and international IP matters. He represents large U.S. companies, research universities, as well as start-up companies in the U.S. and China. Zhaoyang Li is a Concurrent Professor of Nanjing University School of Law and serves as a special counsel for Nanjing University Technology Commercialization Research Center.
Litigation partner Jonathan Shapiro, the Head of West Coast Litigation for Mintz Levin, focuses on he defense of business and securities litigation and government enforcement actions. He has litigated class actions, challenges to corporate transactions and governance, and other matters regarding allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, including jury and bench trials.
Jon Daryanani focuses on all aspects of employment and labor litigation and client counseling, including trade secrets and employee mobility litigation. He represents clients in class actions and administrative proceedings involving wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination and misappropriation of trade secrets claims. He also provides counsel and strategic planning.
Cliff Liu, PhD, handles patent matters spanning a wide array of technologies, including analytical instruments, bioinformatics, clean technologies, enterprise and web services software, graphics hardware and software, materials science, medical devices, MEMS, nanotechnology, polymers and semiconductor device fabrication and packaging.
