practice areas

Litigation Retail Class Actions Life Sciences Financial Services Litigation Commercial Litigation

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California

U.S. District Courts for Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Email: mlane@morganlewis.com

San Francisco
One Market, Spear Street Tower
San Francisco, CA 94105-1596
Phone: 415.442.1333
Fax: 415.442.1001

University of San Francisco School of Law, 1990, J.D.

University of California, Los Angeles, 1987, B.A.

Date	Title	Publication
04/28/1104/28/11	U.S. Supreme Court: FAA Preempts State Law Rule That a Class Action Waiver in a Consumer Arbitration Clause Is Unconscionable View LawFlash Listen to Podcast Listen Now	Litigation LawFlash
02/28/1102/28/11	Kwikset Lowers Pleading Standard on UCL Mislabeling Cases, But Effects on Class Certification in California Remain an Open Question, BNA's Product and Safety Reliability Reporter (also appeared in BNA's Class Action Litigation Report - 4/22/11) View Article	Article
02/01/1102/01/11	California Supreme Court Further Clarifies Pleading Requirements for Standing Under the UCL in the Wake of Proposition 64 View LawFlash	Class Actions LawFlash
10/16/0710/16/07	Avoiding Software Licensing Disputes: What You Need to Know and Deal With Up Front, presented at the American Conference Institute's the Practical and Tactical Art of the Deal in Software Licensing Agreements, San Francisco	Speech