LOS ANGELES (December 8, 2011) – Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce the addition of four new attorneys to its downtown Los Angeles office from the intellectual property litigation firm of Graves &
Shaw LLP: Philip Graves, Greer Shaw, Marjorie Witter and William Wong.
“We are excited to add this talented group of attorneys from Graves & Shaw to our team in Los Angeles,”
said Cary Jones, Administrative Partner of Snell & Wilmer’s Los Angeles office. “Their collective experience in intellectual property litigation, particularly patent litigation, will greatly enhance our ability to serve our clients and helps us achieve our objective to continue expansion in key growth industries.”
In addition to the group from Graves & Shaw, Keith Gregory, Seepan Parseghian, Anya Salehi, Joshua Schneiderman and Timothy Toohey have all joined Snell & Wilmer’s Los Angeles office since late July.
• Philip Graves, partner, primarily represents companies in patent cases across a wide variety of
technical fields. In addition, he represents companies in other types of intellectual property,
business and entertainment litigation, including cases involving trademark infringement,
copyright infringement, unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract
and business torts. Graves has been recognized by his peers as a preeminent intellectual property
litigator, as shown by his inclusion in Southern California Super Lawyers in that field every year
from 2004 through 2011. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and was a law clerk for the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as well as the U.S. District Court for the District of
Alaska.
• Greer Shaw, partner, represents companies in intellectual property, business and other complex
commercial litigation cases. Shaw has litigated patent infringement and trade secret matters
involving a wide variety of technologies, including: spinal implants, portable digital audio
devices, modular flooring, exercise equipment, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, chip
packaging, data storage devices, medical devices and therapies, and silicon purification devices,
among others. He has also represented clients in various trademark litigation and counseling
matters. He has represented individuals and corporate clients in state and federal trial and
appellate courts, as well as before the International Trade Commission. Prior to Graves & Shaw,
Shaw practiced intellectual property law with Kirkland & Ellis and Goodwin Proctor. He received
his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Boston University School of Law. Upon graduation, he
served as a law clerk for the Honorable Bailey Aldrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit.
• Marjorie Witter, associate, represents companies in intellectual property and entertainment cases,
including cases involving patent infringement, trademark infringement, copyright infringement,
unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets. She received her J.D. from Emory
University School of Law, where she received the Dean’s Award for Intellectual Property
Licensing.
• William Wong, associate, focuses his practice on patent infringement litigation. He is a registered
patent agent before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Wong served as an intern for the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property where he conducted prior art searches and patentability analyses for university biopharmaceutical technologies. Prior to law school, Mr. Wong worked as an engineer in the pharmaceutical industry. He received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and externed for the Honorable Judge S. James Otero of the Central District of California and for the Honorable Alice Schlesinger of the New York State Supreme Court.
About Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 400 attorneys
practicing in nine locations throughout the western United States and in Mexico, including Los Angeles
and Orange County, California; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Las Vegas and Reno,
Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Los Cabos, Mexico. The firm represents clients ranging from large,
publicly traded corporations to small businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs. For more information,
visit www.swlaw.com.
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