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Biography

Title:	Partner
Firm:	Gibson Dunn
Law School:	University of Michigan
Graduation:	1979
List:	Lawdragon's 100 Lawyers you need to know in Securities Litigation

Notable case(s), past or present (include date if possible):
Representative cases include the defense of Amazon.com in various shareholder class action cases (2001-06); The defense of Hewlett Packard Board of Directors in a shareholder class and derivative suit (2006-08); The defense of PeopleSoft, Inc. in shareholder class action and derivative suits (2000); The defense of Intel Corp. and its Board of Directors in shareholder derivative suits (2008).

Selected clients:
Hewlett Packard; Amazon.com; PeopleSoft; Merrill Lynch

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Best moment of career:
Two things: my involvement on behalf of the technology company community in efforts to enact the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995; and the publication by Practicing Law Institute in 2006 of the leading treatise on securities litigation, for which I serve as managing editor.

Worst moment of career:
Having my twin boys born in the middle of a two-month jury trial; the judge gave me half a day off.

Attorney you most admire:
My original mentor when I was a young litigation associate-- Doug Schwab of the Heller, Ehrman firm. He taught me the nuts and bolts of the securities markets.

Favorite activities (besides the Law):
Reading great American fiction; Broadway theatre; cycling.

Favorite Sports Team (if you have one), or Favorite Theater or Museum, etc:
Sports team: San Francisco 49ers Museum: N.Y. Metropolitan Museum Author: Philip Roth

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