Education

Law School/Year: J.D., Stanford Law School, 1990 (Order of the Coif)

Other Graduate School/Year: M.A., Ph.D, Princeton University, 1975, 1979; M.Phil., Oxford University, 1973 (Rhodes Scholar)

College/Year: B.A., Wesleyan University, 1971 (magna cum laude)

Bar Admissions

California

Practice Areas

Corporate Business, Intellectual Property, Technology

Major Cases

SAIC -- IPO

SAIC -- sale of Telecordia

Phenomix Series A, B and C financings

TargeGen Series A, B, C and D financings

Embacadero Technologies Inc. -- merger with Thoma Cressey Bravo

Professional Background

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter LLP, I was Co-Chair of the Corporate/VLG Practice Group at Heller Ehrman LLP and a member of the Intellectual Property Transactions Practice Group. I previously served as Co-Chair of Heller Ehrman’s Life Sciences Practice Group. I also served as a clerk for the Honorable Bruce M. Selya of U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Professional Affiliations

I am a member of the American, California and San Diego County Bar Associations. I am also the Vice President and General Counsel of Biocom/San Diego and have served on the Standing Program and Technology Transfer Committees for BIO.

Personal Background

From 1979 to 1987, I was an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. I am author of a book, The Origins of University: The Schools of Paris and Their Critics, 1100-1215 (1985) and numerous articles and reviews on medieval European history.