Brooke Myers Wallace

"A trusted leader" | "Disciplined and unflappable" | "Widely praised" for strategic insights, oral advocacy, and brief writing | "A delight to work with"
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Extensive experience with pre-litigation counseling, discovery, motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, pre-trial preparation, and appeals of litigations with budgets of $13M+. Trusted adviser and principal client contact. Believes efficient management minimizes fire drills and increases team dedication and quality work product.

Representative Accomplishments:

• Decreased client's damages exposure by 25% by persuading court to reject precedent on patent marking.
• Persuaded first N.D. Cal. court, *and only the second court in the country,* to exclude survey-based valuation of a patent, reducing client's damages exposure by $62M.
• Persuaded *first ever* district court to extend Federal Circuit precedent to exclude economic model used in patent valuation, reducing client's damages exposure by 80% ($335M).
• Persuaded E.D. Tex. court to preclude plaintiff from touting results of prior litigation between the parties, leading to favorable settlement days before trial.
• Successfully persuaded N.D. Cal. court to preclude plaintiff from presenting arguments and opinions made by client in other litigations.
• Successfully persuaded N.D. Cal. Court to exclude evidence of client's and licensee's total revenues and profits. 
• Initiated investigation of plaintiff's presence in D. Nev. that led to successful motion to transfer. Other defendant sued by same plaintiff in same venue at same time did not do the same investigation and its motion to transfer was denied, despite all other facts being equivalent.
• Proposed claim construction that established that patent was not directed to client's sophisticated products; construction adopted by two different tribunals and upheld on appeal by Federal Circuit for total victory.
• First chair bench trial; successfully obtained permanent restraining order and full custody for client.