Managing Partner

Mr. Russo is a distinguished San Francisco Bay Area attorney with over 35 years of experience and a frequent speaker on computer law issues and has given presentations to the American Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the Computer Law Association, and the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court.

Mr. Russo serves as an arbitrator, mediator, and early neutral evaluator for the U.S. District Court (N.D. California), the Santa Clara County Superior Court, and the American Arbitration Association, as well as a Judge Pro Tempore of the Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Mr. Russo specializes in Internet, computer law, and intellectual property litigation. In addition, Mr. Russo is in charge of the Firm's entrepreneurship practice.

 

Areas of Practice

  • Internet
  • Computer Law
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Entrepreneurship

Litigation Percentage

80% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Education

University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, California

  • J.D. - 1980
  • Honors: Order of the Coif
  • Honors: UCLA Moot Court
  • Law Review: UCLA Law Review, Member, 1979 - 1980

Columbia University and University of California at Berkeley

  • MBA - 2003

City University of New York, New York, New York

  • B.A./M.A. magna cum laude - 1977
  • Major: Urban Management
  • Major: Computer and Information Science

Bar Admissions

  • California, 1980
  • New York, 1981
  • Hawaii, 1993
  • Washington
  • Oregon
  • District of Columbia
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • State Bar of California
  • New York State Bar Association
  • District of Columbia Bar
  • American Bar Association, Science and Technology, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Sections, Member
  • Santa Clara Superior Court, Judge Pro Tempore
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Arbitrator
  • San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property Inn of Court
  • Million Dollar Advocates
  • Multi-Million Dollar Advocates
  • NITA Master Advocate

Published Works

"Virtual Reality - A Legal Overview" with Michael Risch, Chapter 19 in Computer Software Treatise; L. J Kutten, Ed., 1994

"Software 'Look and Feel' Protection in the 1990's", Co-Author, 15 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, 571-603, 1993

"New Frontiers: Copyright Protection in Virtual Reality Works", 15 The National Law Journal S1, No. 6, October 12, 1992

"Copyright Protection of Virtual Reality", ABA Science and Technology, 1992

"Recent Developments in the Copyright Protection of the Look and Feel of Computer Software: Apple Computer v. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard", 6 Software Protection 1-15, No. 10, March, 1988

"Developments in Copyright Protection of Computer Software", 2 International Computer Law Adviser 9-12, No. 4, January, 1988

"Software Copyright Protection", 5 Software Publisher's Association News 3-4, No. 1, January, 1988

"The Impact of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act on California Trade Secret Law", Co-Author, Trade Secret Law Reporter, May, 1985

"Copyright in the Look and Feel of Computer Software", The Computer Lawyer, February, 1985

"Microcomputer Software Marketing Agreement Disputes", Practising Law Institute, 1985

"Copyright Law and Computer Software Disputes", Practising Law Institute, 1983

"Pre-Trial and Discovery in a Software Marketing Dispute", Law and Business, 1982

"Protection of Computer Software After the Copyright Act of 1980", Co-Author, Law & Business, 1981

Classes/Seminars

"Intellectual Property and Creative Freedoms", Stanford University, January 30, 2007

"What Really Happens in a Patent Appeal", San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, April 19, 2006

"Law of the Internet in California" with John Kelley and Michael Risch, National Business Institute, 2001