And secondly, if she did get caught, she figured because she was famous, she would get off scot-free.Erik Birkeneder650.320.7763 [email protected] am an associate in the Intellectual Property group where I assist clients in identifying, protecting and enforcing their intellectual property.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce was focused on the company's use of pretexting, in which investigators lied about their identity to get phone records for HP directors and journalists.
(Fortune Magazine) -- "I first remember hearing Larry Sonsini's name probably in 1986 or 1987," says Dave Roux, who co-founded Silver Lake Partners, a private-equity firm in Menlo Park Calif., focusing on technology investments. "They explained to me that he was the Larry Bird of Silicon Valley," he says. The ice-in-his-veins, blue-collar, scramble-for-the-ball, great-teammate, no-ego, championship-caliber guy." Twenty years later everybody in the tech business knows Sonsini.
He's the behind-the-scenes player to whom the executives at the most innovative companies of the Digital Age take all their toughest business problems.
This year, though, Sonsini's 40th with the Palo Alto firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, he's found himself shoved uncomfortably into the spotlight.
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She has represented companies and their officers and directors in more than 75 shareholder class actions and derivative suits throughout the United States.
After graduating from Stanford Law School in 1984, Nicki clerked for the Honorable Anthony Kennedy of the U. She previously served as a member of the firm's Policy Committee and as chair of the Nominating Committee.