San Francisco
Lute has litigated cases in a wide range of technologies, including on-demand transportation solutions, smart-home and smart-health devices, telecommunications, video games, semiconductors, virtual machines, and consumer electronics. In addition to her litigation practice, Lute advises emerging companies on intellectual property strategy, helping them identify and protect core innovations to support growth and future development.
Lute earned her J.D. from the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly known as University of California, Hastings) and her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, with a concentration in Signals and Images, from Northwestern University. While in law school, Lute served as president of the Hastings Intellectual Property Association. Before law school, Lute worked as a validation engineer, advising pharmaceutical companies on compliance with FDA regulations.
Düsseldorf
Bevor er zu Orrick kam, war Jonas Banse im Rahmen einer studentischen Tätigkeit bereits mehrere Jahre mit arbeitsrechtlichen Themen befasst und hat während seines Referendariats unter anderem in der Grundsatzabteilung für kollektives Arbeitsrecht eines deutschen Konzerns gearbeitet.
London
Lucy has experience working on acquisitions, disposals and investments, primarily in the technology sector.
London
Recommended by Legal 500 UK, Emma is described as having “masses of gravitas and great client skills.” Her dedication and hard work are consistently highlighted by clients and peers alike.
Emma has experience in drafting and negotiating employment contracts, consultancy agreements and settlement agreements, as well as staff handbooks and policies. She has extensive experiences in conducting and resolving employment litigation in both the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the High Court. In addition, she frequently advises a mix of high-growth startups and leading global corporations on high-value corporate transactions. She also advises on compliance issues such as the employment aspects of data protection matters and the drafting of Modern Slavery Act statements.
Emma is part of a “very responsive” team, who are “exceptionally good and very highly respected globally.”
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Vann litigates in forums throughout the country. He has won several inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He has secured favorable jury verdicts in Federal and state courts in Delaware, Florida, Maryland, and Texas. Multiple wins on behalf of his clients at the U.S. International Trade Commission in Section 337 investigations have earned recognition with “Disputes Deal of the Year” awards. And he has crafted winning strategies and briefs in precedent-setting Federal Circuit appeals.
A chemical engineer by training, Vann is a member of the Patent Bar. His representations involve a broad range of technology fields, including semiconductors, artificial intelligence, consumer electronics, 3D printing, automotive technologies, digital imaging, cryptocurrency, and batteries. His clients are based worldwide, including a significant portion from Japan and China. Vann frequently travels to Asia to speak on key developments in intellectual property law.
Patent infringement litigation is central to Vann’s practice, but he also has handled breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, antitrust, tortious interference, false advertising, civil theft, and bankruptcy matters. Many of his matters involve a complex mix of claims and counterclaims across legal disciplines, where he employs his strategic judgment to navigate competing risks.
While his practice focuses on litigation and dispute resolution, Vann also advices clients on patent licensing, portfolio development, and intellectual property due diligence. Vann co-founded Orrick’s cross-practice 3D printing initiative.
Vann has served the Firm in key leadership roles. In 2022-2023, Vann served as the Chief Practice Officer for the firm's IP & Litigation Business Units, which comprise nearly 400 attorneys globally. His responsibilities included oversight of the units' financial performance, business planning and execution, and lawyer recruiting. Vann also previously served as the firm’s U.S. Law School Hiring Partner, overseeing entry-level hiring nationwide.
New York
Hana has worked on a broad range of matters at the federal and state court level, as well as in arbitration, from pre-litigation strategy to trial. Her experience encompasses disputes involving trademark, trade secrets, arbitral enforcement, consumer class action, employment, mass torts, and breach of contract claims.
Hana also continues to maintain an active pro bono practice at both the national and international level. Prior to Orrick, Hana worked at two large law firms, where she focused on complex commercial litigation, international arbitration, and sanctions compliance.
Santa Monica
Prior to joining Orrick, Ameerah was an associate at Buckley LLP. Prior to Buckley, she was an Assistant Vice President for a national consumer financial services company, where she maintained compliance with all applicable Consumer Finance Protection Board (CFPB) and other federal and state regulatory guidelines.
Tokio
Kane advises U.S., and Japanese companies on cross-border M&A, joint venture, strategic investments, technology licensing, and energy related transactions, as well as compliance, corporate governance, and general corporate matters.
In addition to transactions between U.S., and Japanese companies, Kane works on a variety of multijurisdictional transactions involving entities and assets in Asia and Europe.
Kane has gained client-side experience from his secondments to a U.S. and Japan joint venture appliances company from 2015 to 2016, a Japan subsidiary of a U.S. based elevator and escalator company in 2016, and a Japan electric utility company from 2019 to 2020.
Kane worked at Orrick’s Silicon Valley office from 2010 to 2012, where he focused on technology sector M&A.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Ian's practice focuses on defending against class action litigation, mass torts, and environmental litigation. He has also represented leading consumer goods companies in confidential arbitrations involving multiple appellate arbitral tribunals and confirmation proceedings in federal courts nationwide. Ian also has an active pro bono practice, where he has assisted clients fleeing gang violence in petitioning for asylum to the U.S.
Miami; Washington, D.C.
Miami; Washington, D.C.
Anne brings her unique background to bear on federal appellate matters that cut across a range of substantive areas of the law. She has authored petitions for certiorari, briefs in opposition, and amicus briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving civil rights, constitutional, veterans, and immigration law. She also advises clients on cutting-edge developments in the financial technology and artificial intelligence sectors, where disruptive technologies continue to raise fundamental legal questions.
For nearly a decade before joining Orrick, Anne served as an officer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corp. Her military experiences include prosecuting dozens of criminal cases--including rape and murder--at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Fort Benning, Georgia, advising the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General and other senior Army leaders at the Pentagon on military justice issues, and advising the commander of the Army's only active-duty information warfare brigade in intelligence and operational law in the information and cyberspace domains. Among other distinctions, Anne was awarded the Bronze Star for her service in Afghanistan with the 82d Airborne Division and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne School.
Before joining the Army, Anne practiced in San Francisco with two AmLaw 100 firms. Her representative cases include successfully defending an oil-and-gas company against claims brought under the Alien Tort Statute and customary international law, securing a complete defense verdict at trial on alter ego and agency liability allegations against an insurance company, and successfully defending on appeal summary judgments based on professional responsibility violations and statute of limitations grounds.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Dan is experienced in Hatch-Waxman litigation, including disputes involving drug treatments for cancer and HIV. Dan is also experienced in biologics litigation and counseling, representing clients on matters involving expression vectors, antibodies, gene therapies, and CAR T-cell therapies. Dan’s experience includes litigating patents directed to recombinant DNA technology, complex manufacturing processes, small molecule compounds, crystalline forms, methods of treatment, oral dosage formulations, injectable formulations, and fixed dose combination products.
Dan has contributed to numerous victories on behalf of our life science clients, including a complete win in a multi-patent Hatch-Waxman trial for a client’s blockbuster cancer therapy, favorable claim constructions in numerous cases, and obtaining a special master’s report and recommendation for attorneys’ fees for the opposing parties’ exceptional discovery misconduct. Dan has courtroom advocacy experience, including presenting to the district court for Markman proceedings.
Washington, D.C.
Anne is experienced in all stages of litigation, including preparing pleadings, conducting party, third-party, and expert discovery, motion practice, and trial. Anne also works on merger review matters and counsels clients on antitrust issues.
From 2021 to 2022, Anne clerked for the Honorable Robert B. Kugler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Anne graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a member of the National Moot Court team. In law school, she served as a Littleton Fellow teaching legal writing and as a Senior Editor on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Prior to law school, Anne worked as a consultant on antitrust and finance matters at an economic consulting firm.