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Contact
Email
ar@cooley.com
Phone
(650) 843-5216
Website
Address
Palo Alto, CA, 94304-1130, US
Professional
Bar Admissions
California2009U.S. District Court Northern District of California2009U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit2009
About
William J. Newsom is an associate in the firm’s San Francisco office, focusing on antitrust, consumer and business litigation. Mr. Newsom works on many of the firm’s class action and antitrust cases, including acting as the primary associate on In re Carrier IQ Consumer Privacy Litigation. Outside of the class action context, Mr. Newsom has obtained excellent results on behalf of his clients in several federal cases, including a Section 1983 action on behalf of a pro bono client and a technology licensing dispute relating to vibration controllers. Mr. Newsom was also the primary associate in a successful bench trial in California Superior Court in San Francisco, and has experience in arbitration before AAA and FINRA, as well as mediation with JAMS. In law school, Mr. Newsom was the Senior Managing Editor of the Hastings Law Journal and President of the Environmental Law Society. He also received CALI and Witkin Awards in California Civil Procedure and served as a judicial extern for Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Mr. Newsom utilizes his background in engineering to tackle complex technological issues that arise in antitrust and intellectual property cases. Current Cases: · In re Carrier IQ Consumer Privacy Litigation (N.D. Cal.) · In re Transpacific Passenger Air Transportation Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.) · In re Lithium Ion Batteries Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.) · In re Optical Disk Drive Products Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.) · In re Lehman Brothers Securities Litigation (S.D.N.Y.)
Credentials
Education
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), San Francisco, California | J.D. | Honors: cum laude | Law Journal: Hastings Law Journal, 2008 - 2009 | University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 2004 | B.S. | Major: Mechanical Engineering
Recognition & Involvement
Awards
CALI and Witkin Awards - California Civil Procedure, 2008 - Present
Publications
["Exceeding the Scope of the Patent, 1 Hastings Sci & Tech L.J. 206", "The Antitrust Implications of Filing “Sham” Citizen Petitions with the FDA, 65 Hastings L.J. with M. Avery & B. Hahn, forthcoming, 2013", "The Collaboration Between Public Entities and Private Counsel: Prosecuting Cases that Otherwise Might Not Be Brought, Competition, Competition, Issue 2, Vol. 19, 2010", "What does the DOJ’s e-book antitrust case mean?, San Francisco Daily Journal, May 25th, 2012"]
Associations
American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Air and Space Law Committee (Vice-Chair) | Bar Association of San Francisco, Barristers Litigation Section (Executive Committee Member)
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