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Mr. Londen’s is a trial lawyer with almost 30 years of experience in patent litigation and other areas of complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts at the trial court and appellate levels. He has also handled many commercial arbitration matters arising from merger and acquisition transactions. In addition, he has led significant cases involving public education, civil rights, and other public interest matters.

Mr. Londen has been recognized for his work, including listings as one of The National Law Journal’s 2006 “Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America,” in The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2008), as a recipient of the 2005 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for Civil Rights from California Lawyer Magazine, and as one of the “Ten Best Lawyers in the San Francisco Bay Area” by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003.

Mr. Londen is the President of the Consortium for the National Equal Justice Library in Washington, D.C., and the President of the Public Interest Clearinghouse in San Francisco. He has served as Co-Chair of the National Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights Under Law, a founder of Lawyers for One America, Chair of the California Commission on Access to Justice, Chair of Californians for Legal Aid, Chair of the Legal Services Section of the State Bar of California, and Chair of the Legal Services Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He is a member of a number of other nonprofits’ boards of directors.

Mr. Londen has received awards for his public interest work from organizations including the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the State Bar of California, the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Center for Youth Law, California Rural Legal Assistance, the San Francisco Eviction Defense Collaborative, and the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Mr. Londen was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1953. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1975, magna cum laude, and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1978. He is a member of the bars of California and Arizona. He served as law clerk to the Honorable William W Schwarzer, U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California, during 1979 and 1980. In 1980, Mr. Londen associated with Morrison & Foerster. He became a partner of the firm in 1984.