John W. Keker - Lawyer in San Francisco, CA

Mr. John W. Keker co-founded Keker and VanNest LLP in 1978 and is its Partner. Mr. Keker typically tries two or threecases each year, which range from patents to contracts, criminal defense tosecurities fraud, copyright and trademark to business torts. He serves as ViceChair of Presidio Trust and has been its Director since April 2015.

He servesas a Member of Supervisory Board at Super lawyers. He then served as anInfantry Platoon Leader in Vietnam while a Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps,until he was wounded and retired from the Marine Corps in 1967. He served asLaw Clerk to Retired Chief Justice Earl Warren, United States Supreme Court, asStaff Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C., andas an Assistant Federal Public Defender, Northern District of California. Hewent into private practice in 1973. In 2006, the National Law Journalrecognized him as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States.In 2003, the San Francisco Chronicle named him the best lawyer in the Bay Area.That same year, American Lawyer called him «a giant of the IP trialbar.»

In 2001, California Lawyer identified him as most named by otherlawyers as the person they would hire if trouble strikes. Each year since 1998,he was named one of California's most influential attorneys by the Los AngelesDaily Journal. He has been listed in every edition of Chambers USA and BestLawyers In America in two categories, Criminal Defense and Business Litigationand in Super Lawyers Magazine in intellectual property litigation. He wasinducted into the California State Bar's Litigation Hall of Fame in 2002 andreceived the Significant Contribution to Criminal Justice Award in 1996 fromthe California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. He is a fellow of the AmericanCollege of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, theAmerican Board of Trial Advocates and the American Bar Foundation. Some of thecases he was include are: Cases include in 2005 representing Google againstMicrosoft in a high profile trade secret case, serving as trial counsel in U.S.v. Frank Quattrone in 2003 (hung jury) and in 2004 (conviction reversed by 2ndCircuit, 2006, reassigned to different trial judge then dismissed), in 2002winning a jury trial for Genentech in a $300 million patent dispute withChiron, in 2001, representing Cadence Design Systems, Inc., winning $195million from Avant! in restitution for trade secret theft.

He is a frequentlecturer on litigation to professional groups including the State BarLitigation Section, Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, N.D.Cal. Judicial Conference,PLI, ABA/ALI, California CEB, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice,Mississippi Bar Association, California Bar Association, Nevada Trial LawyersAssociation, Hawaii CEB, ABA Section on Litigation, American Board of TrialAdvocates (ABOTA). He is the author (with William A. Brockett) of EffectiveDirect and Cross Examination California CEB. His community activities includePresident, San Francisco Police Commission from 1996 to 1997 and 1991 to 1992,Vice President, from 1989 to 1990, Vice President, San Francisco FireCommission, from 1988 to 1989, Chairman, San Francisco Bay Water QualityControl Board, from 1981 to 1983.

He graduated cum laude from the WoodrowWilson School of Public International Affairs of Princeton University in1965. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970, where he was on the Board ofEditors of the Yale Law Journal and was Chairman of the Legal ServicesOrganization.