Cooley Poaches California IP Litigator, Eyeing Tech Court Fights

Cooley LLP has hired intellectual property litigator Christa Anderson as the Silicon Valley law firm eyes a growing wave of court battles over corporate technology and trade secrets.

Anderson joins from heavyweight trial law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters. She has represented Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook and Qualcomm, among other clients.

She expands Cooley’s “bench of first-chair trial lawyers,” according to Mike Attanasio, the firm’s litigation department chief.

“Our culture of courtroom advocacy is really enhanced by having someone with the deep experience Krista has in the courtroom,” Attanasio said in an interview. She “brings to ...