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Silicon Valley Lit - Gibson v Latham v WSGR
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:06 am
by Anonymous User
Litigation in Silicon Valley: Any insight or just a response to the poll is appreciated. Leaving things sparse on details for now bc a plain straw poll is probably the most helpful to me atm
Re: Silicon Valley Lit - Gibson v Latham v WSGR
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 2:16 pm
by wldecisions
IP or general lit?
Re: Silicon Valley Lit - Gibson v Latham v WSGR
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:48 pm
by Anonymous User
OP: General, not-IP, Lit. I should've clarified sooner
Re: Silicon Valley Lit - Gibson v Latham v WSGR
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:28 pm
by hdivschool
I don't understand all the votes for Gibson. Gibson SV has a few dozen attorneys and only like a half dozen lit partners.
Re: Silicon Valley Lit - Gibson v Latham v WSGR
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 1:14 pm
by LBJ's Hair
hdivschool wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:28 pm
I don't understand all the votes for Gibson. Gibson SV has a few dozen attorneys and only like a half dozen lit partners.
eh, doesn't much matter. ~150 lawyers across SF + SV, not including LA. and they staff across offices. SV is not SF geographically, but for career development purposes they're interchangeable, particularly in the WFH era.
Wilson - to me - shouldn't be being considered, let alone tied w/Gibson for lit. they have a fantastic corporate department. and their offices are awesome. but their litigation just isn't in same class. you go there to do deals.
Re: Silicon Valley Lit - Gibson v Latham v WSGR
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 7:00 pm
by Anonymous User
OP: Thanks all for the insight. Interesting to see how tight the poll is!.. I concur with the above that Gibson has a strong office despite its size. But I wouldn't write off WSGR either. They have a well-regarded (and big) litigation department at HQ, especially for securities litigation. I have a sense that it's also easier to go in-house from WSGR, although of course it happens at Gibson and Latham as well.
Just wanted to add my less-polarized two cents for any future readers.
Re: Silicon Valley Lit - Gibson v Latham v WSGR
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:36 pm
by hdivschool
LBJ's Hair wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 1:14 pm
hdivschool wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:28 pm
I don't understand all the votes for Gibson. Gibson SV has a few dozen attorneys and only like a half dozen lit partners.
eh, doesn't much matter. ~150 lawyers across SF + SV, not including LA. and they staff across offices. SV is not SF geographically, but for career development purposes they're interchangeable, particularly in the WFH era.
Wilson - to me - shouldn't be being considered, let alone tied w/Gibson for lit. they have a fantastic corporate department. and their offices are awesome. but their litigation just isn't in same class. you go there to do deals.
Gibson is no doubt excellent in lit. But it is hard for me to imagine working at a tiny satellite GDC office is comparable to WSGR's HQ. If they were "interchangable," then they wouldn't have separate offices.