Bartko Bunzel Report: The Line Between Bio and Technology

The question of what the biotechnology industry can patent ripened into a broad industry debate after two landmark Supreme Court decisions – Mayo Collaborative Servs v. Prometheus Labs., Inc. (2012) and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International (2014).  Their collective […]

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C. Griffith Towle Publishes Article in the ABTL Report on Injunction Relief in Lanham Act Cases Post-Herb Reed

The Spring 2016 edition of the ABTL Report – Northern California, Volume 24, No. 3, features an article by C. Griffith Towle on “Injunction Relief in Lanham Act Cases Post-Herb Reed.”  View a PDF of the article.

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Trying a Trade Secret Case: A Road Map

Spring 2017 – Trade secret trials challenge and engage all of a trial lawyer’s essential skills and training. Dealing with state-of-the-art technology–intricate circuit designs, sophisticated manufacturing processes, or highly complex formulas–is often a huge challenge, but there are other pitfalls […]

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Dine & Dash Arbitration Style: What Happens When One Side Doesn’t Pay the Arbitrator

Spring 2017 – Ever since Congress enacted the Federal Arbitration Act, it has been the national policy of the United States to favor arbitration. Southland Corp. v. Keating, 465 U.S. 1, 10 (1984). Where an agreement contains an arbitration clause, […]

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Benjamin K. Riley Publishes Article in the Litigation Magazine on Trying a Trade Secret Case: A Road Map

Benjamin K. Riley Publishes Article in the Litigation Magazine on Trying a Trade Secret Case: A Road Map Trade secret trials challenge and engage all of a trial lawyer’s essential skills and training. Dealing with state-of-the-art technology–intricate circuit designs, sophisticated […]

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Rob Bunzel Invited to Join the Lawyers of Distinction and Recognized as Being in Top 10% of Lawyers in the USA for 2017

Rob Bunzel Invited to Join the Lawyers of Distinction and Recognized as Being in Top 10% of Lawyers in the USA for 2017 Nomination is based upon the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee’s own independent research.  Potential candidates who meet […]

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From the Chair

To the members of the lawyer referral and information service (LRIS) community across the country, I want to say that it is a great honor and a privilege to serve as the Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on LRIS […]

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ABA LRIS Standing Committee Launches National Data Survey of Programs

This year, one of the top initiatives for the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyer Referral and Information Service (“LRIS”) is to launch the first ever LRIS Annual Census. We have received responses from over 120 of the approximately 240 LRIS […]

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Bartko LLP is Pleased to Announce That Commercial Real Estate Attorney, Hilda Senseney, is now a Principal of the Firm

Bartko Bunzel & Miller is Pleased to Announce That Commercial Real Estate Attorney, Hilda Senseney, is now a Principal of the Firm “Hilda has demonstrated enormous talent and confidence from firm clients and surely has earned a position in firm […]

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Bartko Wins Top Defense Verdict

February 21, 2024 San Francisco, CA — The Bartko trial team from the In Re Francesca Naify case received a Daily Journal award as one of California’s top five defense verdicts in 2023, and the top trust and estate case […]

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