Bradford K. Newman, Paul Hastings LLP
Brad Newman is a partner in the employment law department of Paul Hastings’ Palo Alto, California office. For nearly two decades, he has established a long and consistent record of achievement on a national level for his employee mobility and trade secrets expertise. He founded and serves as the chair of Paul Hastings’ Global Employee Mobility and Trade Secret Practice Group. Chambers has consistently recognized Mr. Newman as an “authority on trade secrets cases” who is “creative, interesting and clever.” Mr. Newman leads the Employment Law department for Paul Hastings in Silicon Valley, chairs the ABA Employment Litigation Subcommittee, and is founder and editor of the Employee Mobility, Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets Chapter in the ABA Business Law Section's National Annual Review.

Mr. Newman represents the country’s leading technology, financial institution, software and manufacturing companies in their most challenging “bet the company” matters. He is consistently selected by peers and colleagues as a leader in the profession. Mr. Newman earned a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from e University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Peter Chen, Latham & Watkins
Peter Chen is a partner in the Litigation Department in the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins. He focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and related strategic counseling and licensing. Mr. Chen has practiced intellectual property litigation since 1984, and has been involved in over 75 patent infringement lawsuits regarding computer hardware, software and Internet related inventions, and biotechnology and medical devices.

He has also handled copyright infringement litigation for software clients and over 25 trade secret lawsuits, several of which involved parallel criminal proceedings. In addition, he advises companies on a broad range of issues involving intellectual property management and licensing, standards organizations, information security and open source licensing.

Before joining Latham & Watkins in 2007, Mr. Chen had been a partner at other major law firms and had served as general counsel for Ingenio, an internet telephony company (acquired by AT&T), and for a leading semiconductor company, Linear Technology, as well as vice president of intellectual property for Cadence Design Systems, a Fortune 1000 software company. Mr. Chen has also served as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. He has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Mr. Chen currently chairs the Pro Bono committee for the Silicon Valley office. He is listed as a 2011 Super Lawyer, in the 2010 edition of Legal 500 US for patent litigation, and in The Best Lawyers in America 2011, for Intellectual Property Law. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Chen earned a J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he served as Executive Editor of the Law Review; an M.S. from Stanford University; and a B.S from Stanford University.