My parents met at Cal in 1942, after returning from the submarine service father joined Bechtel; our family has called the Bay Area home ever since. In 1975, halfway through the 6th grade, I was uprooted from Burlingame and spent Jr. High in Jakarta, Indonesia. I did my undergraduate course work at UCSD in La Jolla where I completed a double major in History and Political Science.. After my first year of Graduate work in the MPA program at the Monterey Institute my adviser retired and being a sensible 23 yr old i I elected to retreat to my family's vacation home in Lake Tahoe. In 1986 I started my first professional engagement at a law firm as a legal assistant After a dozen or so years as a Sr. Legal Assistant I headed the staff for the technology litigation group at Cooley Godward in Palo Alto. I remain extremely proud of my role as a founding member of a start-up boutique IP law firm, Day Casebeer, LLP. I was fortunate to have outstanding client work in the Life Sciences/Biotech sector on behalf of Amgen, Applied Bio Systems, Genentech, Alza and ICOS. On the EE side I headed the discovery battle for SUN in the JAVA litigation against Microsoft as well as the antitrust actions that followed the browser wars. After 22 years of IP trial litigation I resigned in 2007 to address the care of my elderly parents.

Bragging rights
My first automated litigation support database was on the ArpaNet, document capture on roll microfilm, coding forms completed by the fine folks at Harvey Fineman Associates and key punched offshore. Two decades later Jeremy Jordan and I were on the receiving end of what eventually became one of the largest fully threaded email production data sets in Sun v. Microsoft.
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