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Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2750 attorneys in 47 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 6.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono.

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Thank you to Omar Parra for his support! Omar Parra is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and represents private equity funds, privately held businesses and strategic investors in a wide range of corporate matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, growth equity investments, and general corporate governance.

Omar’s concentrations include Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), private equity, mergers and acquisitions, breaches of contract, and construction.

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Gunderson Dettmer is Gunderson Dettmer is the preeminent international law firm with an exclusive focus on the innovation economy. Their clients drive innovation. Their client's investments create institutions. Their client's ideas transform the world.

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Thank you to Natalie Pierce for her support! Natalie Pierce is a Partner and Chair of the Employment & Labor Group at Gunderson Dettmer. She represents emerging companies, venture capital and growth equity firms. Natalie is a trusted advisor to clients on all employment-related matter. Natalie also focuses her practice on the future of work, including counseling companies on incorporation of generative artificial intelligence and other transformative technologies.

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Fenwick is a leading law firm, purpose-built to guide visionary tech and life sciences companies and their investors through every stage of growth, from startups securing their first round of funding to leading publicly-traded global enterprises. As one of Silicon Valley’s original legal practices, today they have over 500 lawyers, patent agents, engineers and scientists serving clients from seven offices located in innovation hubs across the United States and China.

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Special thank you to Samantha Cox-Parra and Blaine Schmidt. Samantha, a SFLRLA board member, represents technology and life sciences companies in a broad range of litigation matters, with a focus on commercial and intellectual property litigation. Blaine advises on a broad variety of litigation matters to support clients in the high technology and life sciences industries. Blaine also maintains an active pro bono practice.

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Global Citizens is building the operating system for global immigration, supporting all visa types and cross-border mobility matters. The platform combines AI-native infrastructure with human oversight to deliver immigration services with accuracy and care. Built first for legal teams and individuals, Global Citizens is designed with a long-term vision of supporting public-sector institutions and global companies through a one-to-one model in which business immigration helps fund humanitarian and asylum visas worldwide.

Thank you to Jomana Abdallah for her support!

Jomana is the cofounder and Head of Immigration at Global Citizens, a global immigration legaltech startup based in San Francisco. Jomana previously founded her own private immigration practice in San Francisco, representing top global talent in complex U.S. immigration matters. She began her career at Fragomen and later worked with Silicon Valley legal immigration companies. She is a frequent speaker on immigration topics at orgs like UC Law, UCSF, Antler, and Xooglers, an active AILA member, and a mentor with Centro Legal de la Raza’s Youth Law Academy.

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Hanson Crawford Crum Family Law Group is a premier boutique family law firm, and one of the largest family law firms in Northern California. With a deep bench of six partners and six experienced associates, Hanson Crawford Crum handles cases of every level from those involving basic family law issues to complex financial transactions. The firm serves clients throughout the Bay Area from Marin to Silicon Valley.

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Thank you to Juliana Yanez, Marisa R. Chaves, and Elizabeth Arellano for their support! Juliana specializes in high-asset dissolutions and represents a diverse range of clients, including tech executives, founders, stay-at-home parents, lawyers, venture capitalists, and business owners. Juliana was also trial counsel in what the New York Times has described as “the first major Bitcoin divorce.” Marisa is a trusted advocate for individuals navigating divorce, high-asset disputes, spousal support, property division, and disputed prenuptial agreements. Elizabeth is an accomplished family law attorney, exclusively focusing on guiding individuals and families through challenging legal transitions. She is experienced in handling cases involving divorce, child custody and visitation, spousal and child support, property division, and other family law matters.

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For more than 30 years, Judicate West has been one of California’s leading providers of private dispute resolution services with a distinguished roster of proven neutrals, including retired state and federal court judges, plus professional attorney mediators and arbitrators from a wide variety of practice areas. Founded in 1993, the firm prides itself on maintaining the utmost integrity in delivering innovative solutions to all types of civil disputes. The firm’s successful formula involves top-tier neutrals, a great company culture, and an experienced team of ADR professionals dedicated to delivering gold standard service in alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

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Thank you to Victorina McAdam for her support! Victorina focuses on marketing and business development for Judicate West. Based out of the company’s Oakland office, you can find Victorina at industry events and conferences throughout Northern California. Victorina previously worked with various clientele, from sole practitioners to Am Law 100 firms, at a leading global provider in the legal tech space.

You can also connect with Victorina on LinkedIn.

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Nationwide Legal, LLC provides complete legal support services to law firms and their respective legal departments nationwide. We maintain fully staffed operational departments for all areas (literally nationally) including but not limited to; service of process, e-filing, court services, messenger services, investigations, debt collection support, document duplication, subpoena, and court reporting services.

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Thank you to Angelica Pacheco for her support!

Angelica is Bay Area native with strong Latin roots. She have been supporting legal professionals for years and understand the importance of teamwork in ensuring everything runs smoothly. Most importantly, she care about making clients feel supported, heard, and taken care of.

Please reach out to Angelica if you need legal support services at either 510-485-1933 or scheduling@nationwidelegal.com.

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Express Depositions is a boutique, customizable legal support firm with an unparalleled commitment to customer service. They believe that clients come first and strive to not only meet but exceed their clients' expectations. Express Depositions can assist with Court Reporting, trial technology, legal videography, interpreting, and translation. As well as attorney services, records retrieval, and digital imaging. They are a small local company that provides service in areas all over CA and nationwide.

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Thank you to Emily Yesenia Bradshaw for her support! Emily is an Account Executive at Express Depositions. She is a proud Latina with a passion for civil litigation. Emily has a strong commitment to customer service and is eager to help clients with their deposition and attorney service needs. Emily can be reached at 650-435-9587 or emilyb@expressdeposition.com.

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Conrad|Metlitzky|Kane is a trial boutique led by a trio of former Assistant United States Attorneys. We handle a broad array of complex, high-stakes litigation and internal and government investigations. Based in San Francisco, the firm serves local, national and international businesses, organizations, executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs.

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Thank you to Gabriela Kipnis for her support!  Gabriela is a Partner at Conrad|Metlitzky|Kane, where her practice focuses on complex civil litigation, including trade secrets and unfair competition litigation, consumer and commercial disputes, and high value tort cases. Publicly traded corporations, startups, and individuals turn to Gabriela for help litigating novel and cutting-edge legal issues.

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Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (including its associated entities) is an elite global law firm with world-class practices across the board. Clients know they can rely on Davis Polk for their most challenging legal and business matters. From offices in the world’s key financial centers and political capitals, our more than 1,000 lawyers collaborate seamlessly to deliver exceptional service, sophisticated advice and creative, practical solutions.

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Thank you to Pablo Lozano for his support! Pablo is an IP Associate with the firm out of Redwood City.

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Potomac Law is committed to innovation, excellence, and inclusion. The value stems directly from the talent and commitment of their attorneys who practice law throughout the United States. Their attorneys have outstanding academic credentials and impressive professional experience, with an average of seventeen years at top national firms and/or in-house at major corporations. Clients recognize our attorneys’ skills and creative strategies, as well as their common sense and practical solutions. They are deeply committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the uniqueness of each of our attorneys and support staff.

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Thank you so much to Patricia Medina for her support! Patricia is a partner in the firm’s Litigation, Employment, and Investigation & White Collar Defense practice groups in San Francisco. She represents companies and individuals in high stakes litigation and government investigations, with a focus on protecting her clients’ interests in matters involving fraud, breach of contract, corporate governance, breach of fiduciary duty, securities fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, employment law, and real estate.

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The Joseph Saveri Law Firm is one of the country’s most acclaimed, successful boutique firms, specializing in antitrust, class actions, and complex litigation on behalf of national and international consumers, purchasers, and employees across diverse industries. It also focuses on generative artificial intelligence-related litigation: cutting-edge cases on behalf of classes of artists, coders, and authors who allege their creative work is being illegally appropriated by Big Tech defendants’ artificial intelligence and machine learning technology without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency.

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Thank you to William Castillo Guardado for his support! William joined the firm in 2023. He brings an analytical and thoughtful approach to litigation honed through years of experience in employment, business, and human rights matters. William’s practice currently focuses on all phases of litigation in antitrust and generative AI class actions.