James Pooley is a partner in the Litigation department of the Palo Alto office. Mr. Pooley specializes in the litigation and trial of patent, trade secret, copyright, and technology-related commercial litigation, in state and federal courts, and before the International Trade Commission.

Mr. Pooley has practiced in Silicon Valley since 1973, establishing a national reputation as trial counsel in some of the most difficult and high visibility cases involving intellectual property. His successful patent infringement defense of Adobe Systems was recognized by the National Law Journal as the only IP case among its Top Defense Verdicts of 1997, and a record settlement for ESS Technology in a software copyright case led to his being honored as a 2003 Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer Magazine. Mr. Pooley is also listed in the Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Experts and in Chambers’ America’s Leading Business Lawyers. He has extensive experience in arbitration and mediation, both as advocate and neutral.

Mr. Pooley is author of the highly regarded treatise Trade Secrets (Law Journal Press) and scores of other professional publications in the field of intellectual property. He is President of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and President of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Mr. Pooley teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of California’s Boalt Hall School of Law. He is a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, and a member of the Northern District of California committee on pattern jury instructions for patent cases. Mr. Pooley conceived and scripted an instructional video for jurors in patent cases which was produced in 2002 by the Federal Judicial Center and is now used in courts throughout the United States.

Mr. Pooley graduated from Columbia School of Law as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar in 1973, and holds a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from Lafayette College.