Daralyn Durie is among the top trial lawyers in the country, acting as go-to trial counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants. Daralyn’s exceptional track record has earned her consistent recognition from leading national publications. Chambers has listed her among the top 10 intellectual property lawyers in the U.S. and Law360 has recognized her as an “Icon of IP” and an MVP. Benchmark Litigation reported that “going against her was like going against a boxer in which you know you’re going to get hurt.” She’s a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and an inductee into the California Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. Daralyn’s legal career began at Berkeley Law, followed by a clerkship for the Honorable Douglas Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She became a partner at a litigation boutique in 1999 and, in 2009, co-founded Durie Tangri, a premier litigation boutique that later combined with Morrison Foerster in 2023. In addition to her courtroom successes, Daralyn is actively involved in the legal community. She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a board member of the National Women’s Law Center, is a past president of the Northern California Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and serves as an adjunct professor at Berkeley Law, where she teaches civil trial advocacy. Life Sciences Daralyn has decades of experience in the life sciences sector. She spearheaded the enforcement of Genentech’s Cabilly family of patents, which generated billions of dollars in licensing revenue. She served as lead counsel in the Herceptin biosimilar litigation and recently achieved a plaintiff-side jury verdict of $178 million in a patent infringement case involving melanoma therapy. Technology In the tech sector, Daralyn recently won defense jury verdicts for Aptiv (USB hubs), Activision (in the Eastern District of Texas), and Redbubble. She served as lead counsel for Google, defending Google Books from copyright infringement claims. Following extensive litigation on copyright and antitrust issues, Google prevailed on summary judgment, resulting in Daralyn being named an Attorney of the Year by California Lawyer magazine.

Erin Gibson is a Chambers-ranked trial lawyer in patent litigation and International Trade Commission (ITC) proceedings and Legal 500 Hall of Fame-ranked trial lawyer in ITC proceedings. Erin has tried 18 cases, including 16 patent trials in federal district courts and the International Trade Commission. She has handled more than 50 ITC cases, including as a first chair trial lawyer for some of the world’s largest technology companies. Erin won a defense verdict in a US$500 million patent jury trial and a complete plaintiff's verdict in another jury trial, where the jury deliberated just over two hours. Clients have remarked that "Erin's strength is her presence in the court room” where she is “calm and unflappable,” and that “Erin has a really great presence and has great credibility with judges.” Erin also is Chair of the Board of her law school’s advisory board and a former member of the board of directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association.

Juanita R. Brooks, is a nationally recognized trial and appellate attorney who focuses on complex intellectual property, product liability, and mass tort litigation. She is an innovative, formidable litigator with a demonstrated, near-perfect winning record in complex, highstakes lawsuits that few trial attorneys can match. A master storyteller, Ms. Brooks paints pictures with words to explain the complex technologies at the center of her matters to judges and juries in a way that is both understandable and compelling and will be remembered throughout the trial. Law360 named her an “Icon of IP” for her “skill at trying complicated patent cases without getting bogged down in the technical weeds” and said she is a “jury whisperer.” She has also been heralded by the American Lawyer as “a titan of the patent bar” upon receiving the Litigator of the Year honors. Her skill at connecting with courtroom audiences has made her a go-to litigator when the stakes are high for companies that range from startups to Fortune 10 corporations. Ms. Brooks’ successes in patent litigation have protected billions of dollars in sales for her clients and have helped define the ever-evolving landscape of patent and IP law. Her clients represent a cross-section of cutting-edge industries including software, medical device, pharmaceutical, and electronics. Having handled more than 150 trials during her career, Ms. Brooks is highly skilled at cases that rest, in large part, on expert analysis, testing, and testimony. Utilizing Fish’s science and technology-intensive expertise, she crafts novel, outside the box legal strategies. Her ability to present and challenge expert testimony in court has been a decisive factor in courtroom victories. In one case the trial judge noted that the opposing expert’s “credibility was eviscerated on cross-examination” by Ms. Brooks. Throughout her 41-year career, Ms. Brooks’ numerous trials have resulted in notable wins. In 2018, the Federal Circuit unanimously affirmed a decision for her client Gilead Sciences in which Ms. Brooks successfully wiped out a $200 million damages award by convincing the court that opposing party Merck was guilty of unclean hands. In defense of client Microsoft, Ms. Brooks scored a huge jury win in 2017 in which the plaintiff originally demanded $63 million in damages. The jury returned a noninfringement verdict on every claim, awarding nothing to the plaintiff. Also, in 2017, Ms. Brooks represented GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in a patent infringement lawsuit involving GSK’s highly-successful drug Coreg. By utilizing a novel patent infringement theory, she convinced a jury that the defendant had willfully infringed and GSK was award $235 million in damages. In 2016, she led a team that successfully defended one of the largest mass tort/wrongful death cases in the United States, which included 12,000 cases (some of them class actions representing hundreds of individual plaintiffs). As a Latina, Ms. Brooks has shattered gender and ethnic barriers to become one of the U.S.’s top IP litigators, having received numerous honors for her courtroom successes and her devotion to the practice of law. In October 2018, she received a National Women In Law Lifetime Achievement Award from Corporate Counsel. In 2017, Ms. Brooks was inducted into the California Bar Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, the first Latina honoree and only the third inductee from San Diego to receive this honor. While she tries cases nationally, she is also very active in her local community and played a significant role in drafting the original and the subsequent amendments to local patent rules for the Southern District of California. As an elected member of the firm’s Management Committee, Ms. Brooks has championed policies that have changed the culture and diversity of Fish and become blueprints for similar policies at other firms. After graduating from Yale law school, Ms. Brooks returned to San Diego and worked for Federal Defenders, Inc. She eventually opened her own practice, the first Latina women attorney to become a criminal defense solo practitioner in the community. She went on to be a partner in a preeminent international law firm before joining Fish in 2000.

Tara Trask is the President of Trask Consulting, a boutique litigation strategy, jury research and trial consulting firm with offices in San Francisco, Houston and New York. Ms. Trask’s practice focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on complex commercial litigation; including intellectual property, (patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation) antitrust, securities, breach of contract and fraud. She has also assisted both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving products liability, insurance, and oil and gas. Ms. Trask also has extensive experience in assisting institutions and individuals in matters involving regulatory enforcement and white-collar defense. Over her 25-year career, Ms. Trask has been involved in over 450 jury trials in 25 states and U.S. territories.Ms. Trask is a nationally recognized author and lecturer on juror psychology and other trial science topics. She is a member of the American Bar Association, The Bar Association of San Francisco, and the APA Psychology-Law Society. She serves as Trial Consultant Advisor to the Trial Consultant Advisors to the Civil Jury Project at NYU Law School. She has been a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants since 1994. She served on the board of directors from 2005-2012; as Treasurer, President-Elect and President. Ms. Trask currently serves as the Chair of the ASTC/CJP join working group and liaison to the Civil Jury Project at NYU Law School. Ms. Trask is an avid fundraiser, previously serving on the board for Raphael House, San Francisco’s first family shelter. She has competed in over 125 triathlons, including Ironman New Zealand in 2002.