Name: JACK RUSSO
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Jack Russo is the founding partner in the Palo Alto firm of Computerlaw Group LLP (formerly Russo & Hale LLP). The focus is helping entrepreneurs and early/growth stage companies in the protection of ideas, inventions, and businesses. The firm specializes high-stakes business litigation and especially in trials and appeals in the areas of Internet, e-commerce, software and other intellectual property protection, infringement, and licensing. Mr. Russo is one of the few 40+ year veterans both designated by NITA as a Master Trial Advocate and Certified as an Appellate Specialist by the State Bar of California.

Mr. Russo originated some of the early thinking on IP protection of the “look and feel” of computer software and he has been involved in a number of software cases. His 1985 article, Copyright in the “Look and Feel” of Computer Software published in The Computer Lawyer pioneers the subject.

Mr. Russo is a member of the State Bars of California, New York, and Washington, D.C. (as well as Hawaii, Oregon and the State of Washington). He holds his JD from UCLA School of Law where he graduated Order of the COIF as well as dual M.B.A. degrees from Columbia University and from UC Berkeley‟s Haas School of Business where he graduated Magna Cum Laude; he also holds a joint Bachelor‟s and Master‟s degree from City University of New York in Urban Administration and Computer & Information Science. Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Russo worked as a computer programmer and software analyst on IBM mainframes in New York.

Mr. Russo serves pro bono as a Mediator, Arbitrator, Special Master and Neutral Evalutor for the Federal District Court in the Northern District of California and as a Mediator, Arbitrator and Judge Pro Temp for the Santa Clara Superior Court. He has an active alternative dispute resolution practice and has acted as a neutral in 500+ cases in diverse intellectual property and business law cases in the federal and state civil litigation contexts.

Mr. Russo is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Creativity in Dispute Resolution, a non-profit organized to assist in the research and study of resolutions of complex multi-party disputes in the federal and state courts nationally as well as internationally. He is also a frequent speaker and has presented often to the ABA, PLI, and Computer Law Association; he has been repeatedly named as a SuperLawyer by that prestigious organization (www.superlawyers.com). More information about Mr. Russo and his firm is at www.computerlaw.com. You can also hear his “The Valley Current” Podcast at Apple Podcast or www.computerlaw.com/news/video-podcasts-and-webinars

To Contact Jack Russo:
jrusso@computerlaw.com
www.linkedin/in/jackrusso

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