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WilmerHale welcomes David Marcus to the LA office

By Richard Binder

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP has announced that David C. Marcus has joined the firm?s Los Angeles office as a partner. He will be a member of the firm?s Litigation/Controversy Department and its complex commercial and intellectual property litigation practice groups.

Marcus was most recently a partner in the Los Angeles office of Susman Godfrey LLP. His practice focuses on high-stakes commercial litigation, including matters involving patent infringement, antitrust, securities, breach of contract and fraud claims. In the last nine months, Marcus tried a patent infringement case in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which settled after four days of trial, and a five-week breach of contract case in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which he obtained a multi-million dollar jury verdict for his client. His other recent trials include a monopolization case and a $2 billion fraud case for a major defense contractor.

From 1994 to 2000, Marcus was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the US Attorney?s Office for the Central District of California. From 1999 to 2000, Marcus served as Executive Assistant US Attorney, responsible for the day-to-day management of the 240-lawyer office. Before that, Marcus was a member of the Major Frauds Section, where he investigated and tried complex white collar crimes.

Before joining the US Attorney?s Office, Marcus served as a prosecutor in the Massachusetts Attorney General?s Office, where he tried dozens of cases, and practiced at Skadden, Arps in Los Angeles and New York.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).