Mr. Lobdell is a partner in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster, specializing in the area of securities litigation and criminal defense, including securities class actions, derivative actions, SEC enforcement actions, SEC and DOJ investigations, and internal investigations.

Mr. Lobdell received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1985, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1989. From 1989 to 1990, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ralph B. Guy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Lobdell was a litigation associate in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office. From 1995 through 1999 Mr. Lobdell served as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. where he tried over 30 cases to juries and argued cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the D.C. Court of Appeals.

• Patricia Dunn, former Chairman of Hewlett-Packard, in a criminal case that was dismissed in 2007 and in related civil litigation;
• Clorox Company and its directors and officers in derivative litigation concerning stock option practices, dismissed in 2007;
• Yahoo! Inc. in a pending class action and pending derivative actions, and in the successful defense of a 2004 derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Jacobs v. Yang, No. 206-N, 2004 Del.Ch. LEXIS 117 (Del. Ch. Aug. 2, 2004);
• Directors and officers of the Bank of America in a derivative lawsuit arising out of litigation between the Bank and the State of California;
• The outside directors of Amazon.com Inc. in a securities class action in the Western District of Washington;
• Directors and Officers of the Cooper Companies, Inc., in a pending securities class action and pending derivative action;
• Novartis AG in a derivative action dismissed in 2005 in a related class action, and, in shareholder litigation concerning Novartis’ 2006 acquisition of Chiron Corp.;
• Abraxis Bioscience in shareholder actions arising out of a merger, dismissed in 2007;
• Two mutual fund service providers in SEC investigations of market timing, both of which were terminated with no enforcement action; Barnes & Noble, Inc. in a nation-wide antitrust and unfair competition lawsuit brought by the American Booksellers Association and member stores, obtaining summary judgment on all damages claims;
• Directors and officers of the Bank of America in a derivative lawsuit arising out of litigation between the Bank and the State of California;
• The Bank of America and certain of its directors and officers in two class actions challenging the merger between BankAmerica and NationsBank.