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Michelle Greer Galloway is of counsel to the Cooley Litigation department. Ms. Galloway is resident in the Palo Alto office and joined the Firm in August 1993. She was a partner of the Firm from January 1997 through April 2000. She now serves as of counsel working with Cooley and teaching at local law schools.
Ms. Galloway's technology litigation practice focuses on patent litigation and strategic counseling for companies in the biomedical equipment, life sciences, electronics, and software fields.
She is a lecturer in patent litigation at Stanford Law School and a lecturer at Santa Clara Law School teaching courses in patent litigation, pre-trial litigation techniques, and law practice management. She has also served as a lecturer in patent litigation at Hastings. She is a volunteer at Stanford Law School, including serving as Chair of the Law Fund.
She has lectured on a wide range of both general and IP litigation topics including electronic discovery, expert witnesses, depositions, motion practice, and privilege. She is a Board Member, Georgetown University Law School Advanced E-Discovery Institute and a Member, Sedona Conference WG1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production. She has spoken at conferences including:
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"Becoming a More Effective Lawyer Through Elimination of Bias." Silicon Valley General Counsel Association's Annual Meeting (December 2009)
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"Hazardous Transmissions: Ethics When Technologies ‘Byte.'" Intellectual Property Owners Association ("IPO") (September 2009); Silicon Valley General Counsel Association's Annual Meeting (December 2009)
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"Cooking Up Damages." Women's Intellectual Property Lawyers Association ("WIPLA") (October 2009)
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"The Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product - Navigating Recent Decisions and How they Affect Your Technology Company." Santa Clara Bar Association (June 2008)
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"E-Discovery and Patent Litigation: Practical Strategies for Saving Time and Money in the High Stakes World of Patent Litigation." West LegalEd (January 2008)
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"How Patents Catch the Plague: A Litigator's Perspective on Inequitable Conduct." Women's Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (January 2008)
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"Protecting Privilege Every Day." Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel (December 2007)
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Do's and Don'ts of Patent Prosecution from a Litigator's Perspective." Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (March 2007)
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AIPLA, Do's and Don'ts from The Litigator's Point of View." Advanced Patent Prosecution Road Show, June 2005
She also has published several articles including:
- Corporate Preservation Efforts Require More than "Latchkey" Custodians, ABA Section of Litigation, Committee on Corporate Counsel (April 2010) (coauthored with Ruth C. Hauswirth)
- E-Discovery: One Year of the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 64 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 201 (2008) (coauthored with Emily Burns and Jeffrey Gross)
- Drafting Common Sense Patents for Judges and Juries, IP Litigator March/April 2006 (coauthored with Lee Kaplan and David Hitchcock)
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Don't Let Website Evidence Slip Through Your Fingers: How to Find, Preserve and Offer Website Evidence in Litigation, 2 Mealey's Litigation Report: Discovery (Dec. 2004) (co-authored with Michele Moreland)
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Voicemail: Do I Really Sound Like That? You Do When It Is Played In Court, 2 Mealey's Litigation Report: Discovery (Oct. 2004) (coauthored with Michele Moreland)
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Galloway was a litigation associate in the Palo Alto office of Brown & Bain, where she focused on patent and copyright litigation.
During 1995, Ms. Galloway served as an assistant district attorney for the County of San Francisco.
Ms. Galloway received a J.D. in 1989 from Stanford Law School, where she was the topics development editor of the Stanford Law Review. She received a bachelor's degree, with distinction, from Stanford University in 1986 where she majored in both economics and political science. She is a past-President and long-time board member of Cap & Gown, Stanford's women's honor society and is an active volunteer.
She is a member of the State Bar of California and its section on intellectual property, the American Bar Association and its section of patent, trademark and copyright law and section of litigation and the Santa Clara County Bar Association as well as the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts, Northern, Central and Southern Districts in California, and in the Courts of Appeals, Federal Circuit and the Ninth Circuit.
Education- Stanford Law School
JD, 1989 - Stanford University
BA Economics, Political Science, 1986, with distinction
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Admissions
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Santa Clara County Bar Association
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