Pepper Hamilton Lawyers Named to Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists for 2016
Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that two lawyers have been named by California Super Lawyers magazine as top attorneys in the state for 2016. Gregory S. Bishop has been named to the Northern California Super Lawyers list and Andy H. Chan has been named to the Northern California Rising Stars list for 2016. Each year, no more than 5 percent of the lawyers in California are named to Super Lawyers and no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.
Mr. Bishop is the partner in charge of the Silicon Valley office of Pepper Hamilton and a trial attorney in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. He concentrates his practice on patent infringement cases involving high technology areas such as microprocessors, semiconductors, software, digital signal processing and networking technology. He is experienced in cases brought before the federal district court, the International Trade Commission and post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Bishop received his J.D. from Brigham Young University in 1996, an M.S. in 1989 from Syracuse University in computer engineering, and a B.S. in 1987 from Brigham Young University in electrical engineering.
Mr. Chan is a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, resident in the Silicon Valley office. He focuses on intellectual property matters with a particular concentration on patent litigation involving complex technology in the biotechnology, chemical and information technology fields. Mr. Chan has advised clients on intellectual property issues in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries. He also has represented clients in a variety of other technological arts, including computer networks, e-commerce, data compression technology, DVD authoring software and electronic data systems. Mr. Chan received his J.D. in 2005 from Santa Clara University School of Law, where he served as senior production editor for the Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal. He received a B.S. in 2000, with honors, from the University of California Berkeley in molecular biology.
Selection Process for Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
A statewide survey of lawyers who have been in practice for at least 5 years leads to the nomination of the best attorneys they have personally observed in action. Candidates are also added from searches by an attorney-led research staff for those who have attained certain honors or achievements. A research department examines the background and experience of each candidate. Point totals are calculated from the balloting and qualitative evaluation steps. Candidates are grouped according to primary area of practice. Members of a blue ribbon panel, selected from those with high point totals, review a list of candidates from their practice area. Final candidates are those with the highest point totals from each category. The selection process for Rising Stars is the same as the Super Lawyers selection process except that: 1) to be eligible for inclusion in Rising Stars, a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger or in practice for ten years or less and 2) candidates for Rising Stars do not go through peer evaluation by practice area. See www.SuperLawyers.com for more detail.
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