Christopher C. Cooke, Partner, San Mateo Office
Before he joined the SEC, Mr. Cooke was an attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he represented a wide variety of clients in federal and state courts in California, concentrating on complex litigation matters, and he was a law clerk to a United States District Judge in San Francisco. Mr. Cooke received his law degree from UCLA School of Law in 1989.
Contact: Christopher Cooke in the firm’s San Mateo office -- (650) 638-2370
Jeffrey W. Kobrick, Partner, San Mateo Office
Before he joined the SEC, Mr. Kobrick was a litigator at Bingham Dana LLP (now Bingham McCutchen LLP) and handled a variety of complex litigation matters in state and federal court. Mr. Kobrick has handled a number of cases involving significant legal issues at the trial and appellate level that have been reported, including one matter in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Kobrick has taught a course in Federal Litigation at Stanford Law School since 1998, where he has been Consulting Professor and Lecturer in Law. Before 1998, he taught Federal Litigation at Harvard Law School as a Lecturer and Visiting Professor. He received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with honors, where he was an Editor of the Law Review, and clerked with a U.S. District Judge in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Contact: Jeff Kobrick in the firm’s San Mateo office -- (650) 638-2370
Stephen S. Wu, Partner, Los Altos Office
Mr. Wu also provides counseling services concerning e-discovery, digital evidence, and legal matters relating to information security and privacy, including regulatory compliance, security breach liability, incident response, disaster recovery, authentication, electronic contracting, digital and other electronic signatures, and public key infrastructures. He also advises clients concerning legal issues involving virtual worlds (such as the Second Life® world), new media, Web 2.0, and the 3D Internet.
Mr. Wu serves as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law. He is a member of the Section's Virtual Worlds and Multiuser Online Games Committee, its eDiscovery & Digital Evidence Committee, its Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Committee, and its Information Security Committee (ISC). Steve Wu was ISC co-chair from 2001 to 2004.
Mr. Wu is President-Elect of the SL Bar Association in the Second Life® virtual world, where his avatar is “Legal Writer.” He has been featured in magazine articles in the American Bar Association Journal and the California Lawyer Magazine on lawyers’ activities in the Second Life® virtual world and his election as President-Elect of the SL Bar Association.
Mr. Wu has written or co-written five books on information security law and frequently speaks on data protection, privacy, e-discovery/forensics/e-retention topics before forums such as the RSA Security Conference, Vanguard Security Expo, the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, and Practicing Law Institute. Mr. Wu was an in-house attorney with VeriSign, Inc. for almost five years, where he was in charge of the company’s worldwide policies and practices governing its digital certification secure ecommerce services.
Prior to joining VeriSign, Mr. Wu practiced with the Pittsburgh offices of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in the areas of computer law, intellectual property, and general litigation, following a clerkship with a United States District Judge in Columbus, Ohio. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1988 with honors, and served as Topics Editor for the Harvard Journal on Legislation.
Contact: Stephen Wu in the firm’s Los Altos office -- (650) 917-8045
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