Almeling, David

David Almeling is a partner in the San Francisco office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP and one of the country’s leading attorneys in trade secret law. IAM Patent 1000 calls him a “trade secret authority” and “one of the country’s best trade secret litigators.” And Legal 500 lists him as one of nine lawyers nationwide in its Hall of Fame for trade secrets. In addition to representing clients on trade secret matters, David has taught trade secret law at UC Berkeley Law School for the last five years. He has testified at the invitation of Congress on safeguarding trade secrets. His book, Trade Secret Law and Corporate Strategy, is now in its fourth edition. And he is Vice Chair of the Sedona Conference Working Group on trade secrets, which comprises more than one hundred of the leading lawyers, judges, and academics in this field.