Boston, Ma., USA - September 27, 2010, Boston, Ma., USA - Goodwin Procter, a law firm, announced that David E. Kleinfeld and Kurt M. Kjelland have joined the firm as partners in its San Diego office.
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David E. Kleinfeld represents corporations in litigation involving intellectual property, unfair competition, and business and commercial disputes. Prior to joining Foley & Lardner in 2008, he was a partner with Heller Ehrman LLP.
Admitted to practice in California and New York, Mr. Kleinfeld is also admitted before the U.S. District Court for the Central, Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of California; U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Listed in San Diego Magazine as one of the area’s top commercial and intellectual property litigators and in California Law Business as one of California’s top rainmakers, Mr. Kleinfeld was recognized as a leading attorney in commercial and intellectual property litigation in the 2008, 2010 and 2011 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. In addition, he was ranked in the 2007-2010 San Diego Super Lawyers survey for his intellectual property litigation practice.
Mr. Kleinfeld is a member of the State Bar of New York; State Bar of California and its Litigation Section Executive Committee; Founding Master J. Clifford Wallace American Inn of Court; and San Diego County Bar Association. He is a member of the Committee of Adoption of Local Patent Rules of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and a former member of the Board of Governors of the San Diego Association of Business Trial Lawyers and the American Arbitration Association.
In addition, he serves as the President of the San Diego Opera Board of Directors. Mr. Kleinfeld earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1980 and his B.A., cum laude, from Wesleyan University in 1977.
Kurt M. Kjelland is a registered patent attorney who counsels companies on litigating high-stakes patent and trade secret cases in the life sciences and electronics fields. Prior to joining Foley & Lardner, he was a partner at Heller Ehrman LLP and previously was a chemical engineer for the Dow Chemical Company.
Mr. Kjelland is admitted to practice in California and Arizona and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; and several U.S. District Courts, including the Southern, Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California. ■