The Hon. Lourdes G. Baird (retired) has served with distinction in the federal and state courts and enjoys a reputation as an intelligent, fair, and approachable jurist. Following her previous appointments as a U.S. attorney and as a judge in the Los Angeles Superior and Municipal Courts, she served for 13 years in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California where she presided over cases in all areas of federal jurisdiction. Prior to her judicial service, she was in private practice as a partner in the firm of Baird, Munger & Myers and worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California. She currently serves as an arbitration neutral for JAMS.

Judge Baird earned her J. D. from UCLA School of Law in 1976 and her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1973. She is fluent in Spanish.

Breton A. Bocchieri (“Bret”) is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He is a well-known intellectual property law trial attorney who concentrates his practice in patent, trademark, copyright, cyber-piracy, and trade secret and unfair competition, as well as intellectual property-related antitrust litigation. Mr. Bocchieri has established a number of important precedents in patent law, which have been reported in the national press, over a dozen legal treatises, law journals, and law school textbooks. He is a noted author and lecturer on intellectual property litigation strategy and tactics, and has been featured by CNN Headline News as one of the country’s leading practitioners in Internet piracy.

Mr. Bocchieri earned his B.A. from Rutgers College at Rutgers University in 1978 and his J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1985. He also earned an A.S. in electrical engineering technology from Middlesex County College in 1982. He is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits, the U.S. District Court of California, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Michael Lachuk, a former physicist, has been a patent litigator for some 25 years, representing numerous clients in cases pertaining to the physical sciences. Mr. Lachuk is currently deputy general counsel and director of the intellectual property law group at Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company and leading provider fo scientific, engineering and technical services and solutions. Before joining SAIC, Mr. Lachuk was a partner in the firm of Poms, Smith, Lande and Rose. He received his B.A. in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his J.D. from McGeorge School of Law.

Sean M. SeLegue is a director with the litigation department of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco and is a member of the firm’s attorney liability and appellate practice groups.

Attorneys who face charges of misconduct—whether in a civil case for malpractice or malicious prosecution, in a disciplinary investigation by the state bar, or in a motion to disqualify—often turn to Mr. SeLegue and his colleagues in the Attorney Liability Group. His business litigation background and extensive experience with the unique issues and dynamics involved in claims against lawyers allow him to provide effective representation of his clients, which include some of the nation’s largest law firms. His experience in defending attorneys, and his deep knowledge of the law governing lawyers, allow him to provide practical solutions to lawyers who face ethical dilemmas.

In the appellate arena, Mr. SeLegue’s practice encompasses the full range of business and other civil disputes, such as unfair competition, real estate and family law. He is certified as an appellate specialist by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Since serving as law clerk to Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Mr. SeLegue has successfully argued cases in the California Supreme Court, the California Court of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. SeLegue has taught professional responsibility at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and he has spoken nationwide for such groups as the Bar Association of San Francisco, Continuing Education of the Bar, Practising Law Institute and the American Intellectual Property Association, as well as at private seminars for law firms. Mr. SeLegue’s articles have appeared in The National Law Journal, California Lawyer and San Francisco/Los Angeles Daily Journal.

In 1991, Mr. SeLegue earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and served ass editor of the California Law Review. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, with departmental highest honors, from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to practice in California and before all California federal district courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and the Federal Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Charles A. Thomasian is a senior counsel at Raytheon Company. His practice is focused on all intellectual property matters for the Space and Airborne Systems business unit of Raytheon in El Segundo, California. Mr. Thomasian is responsible for legal aspects of U.S. government and commercial contracting and subcontracting, licensing and litigation management. Before joining Raytheon in 2008, he was senior counsel at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP. His practice at O’Melveny, while encompassing all aspects of intellectual property law, was focused on patent litigation. Before that, he was a senior associate at the intellectual property firm of Conley Rose P.C. in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Thomasian’s intellectual property litigation experience includes prosecuting and defending high technology companies in federal and state court actions in the areas of patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, tortious interference, and noncompete covenants. He has also served as an adjunct lecturer on intellectual property law at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Prior to his legal career, Mr. Thomasian was a senior software engineer at ExxonMobil Company USA in Houston, Texas. He received a B.S. in computer science, summa cum laude, from the University of Houston in Texas and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center.