Title: Managing Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson
Groups: Event Speakers for CIOs, AI and the Outlook for IT Modernization Conference
For more than 25 years, Chris has guided Silicon Valley, national, and global tech and life sciences clients in high- stakes patent, other intellectual property, and technology litigation. He has led both large and small trial teams in courts throughout the United States, and has also served as lead counsel on appeals before the Ninth and Federal Circuits. His clients include companies in the software, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, microelectronics, medical devices, and life sciences sectors. Before joining Womble Bond Dickinson in 2019, Chris practiced in the Bay Area offices of several nationally-known law firms.
One of only a handful of practicing lawyers to have earned a doctorate in Law from Oxford University in addition to a U.S. law degree, Chris has held visiting faculty positions at UC Hastings School of Law, Berkeley Law School, Stanford Law School, and Oxford University. Drawing on his years of teaching civil procedure, evidence, e-discovery, and advanced patent law, Chris is a creative strategist and has marked wins for clients on a variety of unconventional issues. Before entering law practice, Chris clerked for Judge Robert Beezer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Chris is a recognized thought leader on IP issues, including artificial intelligence. He speaks and writes frequently on IP, litigation, and technology topics. Chris serves on the Advisory Boards for the annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute, and for the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, the top ranked IP program in the U.S.
Chris is the Office Managing Partner of Womble Bond Dickinson's San Francisco office and co-founded the firm’s AI practice. He previously led the firm’s US Intellectual Property Litigation Group and served on the firm’s Global Board.