Our San Francisco office opened in 2008 and now more than 20 lawyers call San Francisco their home office.
We combine local service with the global knowledge that comes with being part of a firm with more than 40 offices throughout the world. This combination allows us to offer our clients corporate, intellectual property, and litigation services from lawyers in the Bay Area, while permitting us also to serve clients’ global needs in a seamless and efficient way.
Our Bay Area lawyers have decades of experience in all types of dispute resolution, including federal and state court civil and criminal jury and bench trials and arbitration. We have conducted many internal investigations both in the United States and overseas, and our dispute resolution practice covers a range of subject areas, including intellectual property, antitrust, securities, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, consumer regulations and general commercial contract and tort matters.
Our corporate practice in the Bay Area includes a focus on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, securities law compliance, corporate governance, and venture capital and private equity investments.
Our Northern California intellectual property practice focuses on patent litigation, and has significant federal trial and appeals experience, with particular depth related to electrical, mechanical, chemical, and biotechnology patents. The team also has a strong academic background in applied sciences: three of the partners have an engineering degree, and one holds a PhD in Biophysics.
Located just blocks from Ferry Plaza, the San Francisco office is in the hub of restaurants, shopping, and cultural attractions.
Interesting notes
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Hogan Lovells’ Bay Area lawyers offer a high level of national litigation experience and global corporate capabilities, combined with local and industry-specific knowledge, all of which is wrapped into the global resources of a top-ten legal practice.
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Chambers USA recognizes several of our practice areas, including Securities Litigation, General Litigation, and White Collar and Criminal Investigations (2011).
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Our San Francisco office includes two members of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
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Lawyers in our San Francisco office serve regularly as federal court-appointed indigent criminal defense counsel, and, as a member of the Federal Defender Panel, we expect to continue to receive such appointments.
Contact
For further information about our San Francisco office or our summer associate program, please contact:
Julie A. Johnson
Office Administrator
Hogan Lovells US LLP
4 Embarcadero Center
22nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
JoinHoganLovellsBayArea@hoganlovells.com
Our work
Practice areas
- Antitrust, competition and economic regulation
- Bribery, corruption and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations
- Class actions
- Commercial litigation
- Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution
- Investigations, white collar and fraud
- IP litigation
- Litigation, arbitration and employment
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity/venture capital
- Patents
- Professional liability
- Securities litigation and enforcement
- Trade secrets and confidential know-how
- Cartels and criminal investigations
- Licensing and technology transfer
- Financial services litigation
- False advertising and unfair competition
- Debt capital markets
- Equity capital markets
- Pro bono
Significant clients
- Former CEO, JDS Uniphase Corporation
- Former CFO, Brocade Communications
- LabCorp
- Threshold Pharmaceuticals
- Vietnam Airlines
- Symantec
Summer Program
Size
We expect to have 2-3 summer associates in 2012.
Assignments and training
Summer associates are encouraged to work with lawyers in all practice groups on a wide range of assignments and attend training events hosted by the Hogan Lovells Academy.
Recruitment
We look for candidates with the intellect, creativity, skills, and commitment needed to provide our clients with the high quality and effective service they have come to expect from Hogan Lovells. Lawyers from the San Francisco office conduct interviews at several area law schools. Please contact your law school's career services or placement office to sign up for an on-campus interview.
Billable hours
Associates billable hours track is 1950 hours. Credit is given for up to 100 pro bono hours.
Pro bono commitment
All Hogan Lovells lawyers are encouraged to become involved in legal representation in the public interest. Our Pro Bono practice has handled hundreds of matters in recent years, including high-profile “impact cases” of national importance.
Lawyers in our San Francisco office serve regularly as federal court-appointed indigent criminal defense counsel, and, as a member of the Federal Defender Panel, we expect to continue to receive such appointments.
Community outreach
We have established ourselves in the community through involvement in numerous bar, business, and nonprofit organizations.