Duane Morris Adds Litigation Partners David Landau and Aliza Karetnick from WolfBlock
April 24, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, April 24, 2009 - Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that litigators David Landau and Aliza Karetnick have joined the firm as partners in its Philadelphia office. Landau and Karetnick were formerly partners at WolfBlock LLP, raising to 52 the number of former WolfBlock lawyers joining Duane Morris. Nearly half of those lawyers are part of the firm's expanding Trial practice.
Landau, the former chair of the Intellectual Property and Trade Secret Litigation Group at WolfBlock, represents technology companies, energy companies, manufacturers and other enterprises, primarily in trademark, copyright, patent, software licensing and franchise issues. He regularly handles trade secret, confidentiality and non-competition litigation, and his experience includes securing a landmark decision that, under Pennsylvania law, a doctor's patient list is a trade secret. In addition to intellectual property matters, he counsels clients in employment discrimination and employment contract disputes.
Long involved in politics, government and public service, as both a candidate and an advisor in a number of major campaigns, Landau formerly served as solicitor for the Borough of Yeadon and special counsel for Nether Providence Township, both in Delaware County, Pa. Early in his career, he was national staff counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C., and handled major civil liberties and civil rights litigation, representing the ACLU before Congress on legislative issues. He has testified more than 30 times on constitutional law issues before various congressional committees. A 1978 graduate of American University's Washington College of Law, Landau received his B.A., with honors, from Brown University.
Karetnick's clients include well-known regional and national companies, both private and public, involved in complex commercial litigation, including trademark, contract, employment and securities class actions, as well as general business disputes. She has extensive experience with governmental and regulatory investigations.
A director for the nonprofit Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Karetnick has considerable civil rights litigation experience, focusing on class action and individual disabilities rights, including representing children and their families in education rights cases. She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 and received her B.A., magna cum laude, in cultural studies from Bates College.
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