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SPEAKERS

Diane Cafferata’s practice at Quinn Emanuel involves a wide variety of complex commercial litigations in federal and state courts, where she represents both plaintiffs and defendants.  She has substantial experience in patent, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property matters, as well as in privacy issues, class actions, derivatives and other financial matters, construction and real estate disputes, contract and business tort cases, cannabis, and probate litigation. Diane’s teams have brought in more than $3 billion through trials and settlements.

Diane has been recognized ten years in a row as one of Southern California’s Super Lawyers by Los Angeles Magazine.   She has also won multiple awards, both national and regional, for her work on behalf of plaintiffs.  Last month, Diane was named to Women of Influence – Attorneys 2021 by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Diane is also the author of Business Litigation Demystified, an overview of U.S. civil litigation designed for domestic and foreign businesspeople and in-house counsel.

Candice Decaire is General Counsel and Chief Strategy Officer for the Infectious Disease Research Institute, a nonprofit biotech organization focused on creating immune-enhancing technologies and making those technologies globally and equitably accessible. Ms. Decaire advises IDRI on a broad array of legal and transactional issues and works to develop, execute, and sustain IDRI’s strategic initiatives.  Ms. Decaire has significant experience as former outside counsel to numerous biotech and life sciences clients, with a focus on intellectual property law, including patent and trade secret protection. She has counseled and represented past clients in litigation, appeals, arbitration, ITC investigations, and inter partes review proceedings concerning biologics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diverse other technologies. She has helped such clients to develop and pursue strategies for protecting and profiting from intellectual property and data, including due diligence and investigation of validity and freedom to operate, licensing and collaboration policies and agreements, assessment and mitigation of risks of infringement or misappropriation, and data privacy and security issues.

Tom Wallerstein is a commercial litigator and trial lawyer whose practice focuses on trade secrets, non-competes and other employment disputes; intellectual property and licensing; partnership, founder and stock / equity disputes; and other complex or high-stakes commercial disputes.  Tom has served as lead attorney on numerous cases reaching into the tens of millions of dollars spanning various industries including semiconductor and computer hardware, software and SAAS, pharmaceuticals, robotics, entertainment and cannabis.  He routinely appears in court and has first-chair trial experience in state and federal courts, and arbitrations, in California, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Colorado and elsewhere.

Tom began his career in Philadelphia working on a variety of high-profile litigation matters, including representing two Philadelphia mayors and trying a federal jury trial.  He later joined a global litigation firm where he gained effusive praise for his courtroom skills.  Before joining Venable as one of the founders of its San Francisco office, Tom was the founding and managing partner of a Silicon Valley litigation boutique firm

Tom frequently writes and speaks about trade secret litigation, and is co-author of Trade Secrets: Law and Practice:  https://www.amazon.com/Trade-Secrets-Practice-David-Quinto-ebook/dp/B08R55LRVL

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