Litigation Best Practices - Live in SF - July 10, 2017

Perspectives on Litigation Best Practices

Sponsored by the Northern District Practice Program

The Practice Program for the Northern District of California invites you to an informal program that will provide an opportunity for attorneys to hear from Northern District Judges and in-house counsel Litigation Best Practices. 

The panel will include:

Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler was an AUSA in this Court, prosecuting complex white-collar cases with parallel civil components, was Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, and was the Professional Responsibility Officer. 

Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley was appointed to the Court in 2011. She was a partner at Kerr & Wagstaffe, LLP in San Francisco as a civil litigator with an emphasis on federal practice, representing individuals, government entities, and institutions as plaintiffs and defendants in wide range of matters.  

Makesha Patterson is Senior Litigation Counsel at Google Inc., San Francisco, handling a wide variety of matters, including defamation, consumer class actions, trademark, copyright, privacy, commercial, and environmental litigation.

Nora Puckett is Senior Litigation Counsel at Google Inc., handling regulatory and litigation matters, such as class actions, trademark, copyright, and commercial disputes. Prior to joining Google, Nora was counsel at O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco.   

Justina Kahn Sessions is an associate at Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, focusing on antitrust and IP litigation, representing established companies and startups in complex matters in the Northern District and across the US. 

The Program will include opportunities to learn:

• The expectations of judges, in-house counsel, and private practitioners regarding discovery, brief-writing, oral argument, and more, as well as the nuts and bolts of getting these done, and

• From each other by asking questions of the panelists and sharing your own experiences

FREE!

Total Credits:  1.00 unit General

Live:

Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse

450 Golden Gate Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94102

July 10, 2017,  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  PT 

For further information see:

http://northerndistrictpracticeprogram.org/

or call 415-331-5158

or email  practiceprogram@cand.uscourts.gov