PARTNER, SNELL & WILMER LLP
WHY: Managing partner for OC office of Phoenix-based full-service business law firm; co-chairs the firm’s intellectual property group, specializing in IP protection, litigation, counseling and licensing.
RECENT: Co-presenter of “Patent Fundamentals, Drafting & Prosecution,” USC Stevens Center for Innovation in September. Firm moved up a notch to the eighth largest in OC this year with 66 OC attorneys on the Business Journal’s Law Firms list.
NOTABLE: Received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University and University of Florida, respectively; his law degree is from the latter’s Levin College of Law.
