EDITORIAL REVIEW

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She shut down shareholder lawsuits against Guidant, McAfee and Salesforce.com.

VISITOR RATINGS (on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being best)

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ANONYMOUS REVIEWER
relationship: opposing counsel (Securities Fraud Class Action) rates/fees: None. comments: Niki is an accomplished attorney and a formidable adversary. She is also honest and straight-forward, and therefore a pleasure to litigate against.		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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Partner

• Securities Litigation
• Corporate Law & Governance
• Litigation
• Mergers & Acquisitions

EXPERIENCE:

Nina (Nicki) Locker is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's Palo Alto office. Nicki specializes in securities litigation and counseling. She has represented companies and their officers and directors in more than 50 shareholder class actions and derivative suits throughout the United States. (See list of companies). Nicki also has conducted internal investigations for boards of directors and audit committees and defended corporations and executives in SEC enforcement matters involving allegations of accounting fraud, reporting failures, and insider trading. In the past two years, Nicki has won shareholder lawsuits on behalf of Juniper Networks (N.D. Cal. and Cal. Superior Court), Brocade Communications (S.D.N.Y. and N.D. Cal.), Genesis Microchip (N.D. Cal. ), New Focus (N.D. Cal.), Network Associates (Cal. Superior Court), Guidant (N.D. Ill.), Mobility Electronics (D. Ariz), Lipman Electronic Engineering, Ltd. (S.D.N.Y.), and Allot Communications (N.D. Cal.).

In 2003, Stanford Lawyer featured Nicki in its cover article "Do the Right Thing," which discusses how securities litigation has changed in recent years and how Nicki is helping clients implement systems to detect fraud and improve corporate governance practices.

After graduating from Stanford Law School in 1984, Nicki clerked for the Honorable Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Nicki has been at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati since 1985. She has chaired the firm's Nominating Committee and was formerly a member of its Policy Committee.

SELECT CLIENTS:

• Brocade Communications
• Guidant
• Juniper Networks
• McAfee
• Salesforce.com
• VERITAS Software

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SELECT REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING INVESTIGATIONS:

• Represented former CFO and CEO of a public company after the SEC enforcement staff recommended charging client with securities fraud violations. SEC concluded investigation without filing any charges.
• Represented Critical Path in SEC investigation relating to multi-year financial restatement. Investigation concluded with a settlement that did not include any monetary penalties or fraud claims.
• Represented Brocade Communications in SEC investigation regarding multi-year financial restatement relating to accounting for stock options.
• Represented Network Associates in SEC investigation regarding multi-year financial restatement relating to revenue recognition and tax reserve issues.
• Represented Quovadx in SEC investigation regarding a multi-year restatement relating to revenue recognition accounting.
• Represented director of a public company in insider trading investigation by the SEC.
• Represented former chair of Audit Committee of public company in SEC investigation after SEC enforcement staff recommended charging client with securities fraud violations relating to an internal audit committee investigation. SEC has not filed charges yet.

EDUCATION:

• J.D., Stanford Law School, 1984
  Editor, Stanford Law Review; Recipient, Frank Baker Belcher Evidence Award
• B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, Yale University, 1980
  With Distinction and Honors, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:

• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, 2004, 2005, 2006

HONORS:

• Selected as one of Lawdragon's "100 Lawyers You Need to Know in Securities Litigation," 2008
• Selected by the 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions of Chambers USA as one of the top securities litigators in the United States
• Selected for inclusion in the 2007 edition of The Legal 500 US
• Featured in InsideCounsel's "Crisis Rolodex" as one of the "Best Lawyers to Call in a Worst-Case Scenario" (White-Collar Scandal category), April 2007
• Named one of the "Top Women Litigators" by the Daily Journal, 2007
• Named one of the nation's "Top 10 Commercial Litigation Lawyers" by U.S. Lawyer Rankings in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010
• Featured in Lawdragon 500 New Stars, New Worlds List, 2006
• Featured in the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 editions of Best Lawyers in America
• Named in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 as a Northern California "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics magazine

ADMISSIONS:

• State Bar of California
• State Bar of Georgia
• Supreme Court of California
• U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

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Nicki Locker

Biography Title: Partner Firm: Wilson Sonsini Law School: Stanford Law School Graduation: 1984   Notable case(s), past or present (include date if possible): Brocade Communications Securities Litigation; Juniper Networks Securities Litigation; McAfee Securities Litigation   Selected clients: Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications, McAfee, Veritas, Guidant Areas of Expertise:   Bar Memberships:   Clerkships:   Honors:

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SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

• Co-author with Peri Nielsen, "Ambiguity Deters Claims Pursuit: Practicalities May Make Section 304 More Trouble than Its Worth," San Francisco Daily Journal, August 2005

SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

• "Critical Questions to Ask about Your D&O Insurance," Corporate Board Member/NASDAQ Board Governance Series webcast, 2008
  
  
• "The GC's Mandate: Leadership and Accountability," The Economist, December 2007
  
  
• "New SEC Rules on Executive Compensation and Stock Option Disclosure and the Option Granting Scandals," Glass Legal Works, November 2006
  
  
• "The Stock Option Scandal: Emerging Option Grant Issues," AIG, October 2006 Presenter, Option Backdating Session, Stanford Directors' College, June 2006
  
  
• "Dura Pharmaceuticals: The Supreme Court Raises the Bar for Shareholder Class Actions," CLE Program, May 10, 2005
  
  
• "Recent Trends in SEC Enforcement," California CPA Society, November 8, 2004

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