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Yuri Mikulka chairs Zuber & Taillieu LLP’s Litigation Department. As a specialist in intellectual property and complex commercial litigation, Ms. Mikulka has extensive trial and litigation experience representing Fortune 500 corporations in a wide range of disputes in federal and state courts, and administrative proceedings nationwide.
Her experience includes defending some of the best-known companies in high-profile patent infringement actions involving technologies such as liquid crystal displays, semiconductor manufacturing, automotive technology, printer technology, green technology, and in disputes involving trademark, copyright, theft of trade secret and IP licensing. Ms. Mikulka also has served as lead counsel in litigation involving unfair competition, false advertising, antitrust violations, class actions, derivative suits, fraud, contract disputes, and securities litigation and arbitrations. Her experience includes dismissal of a multi-million dollar suit based on a summary judgment motion and obtaining a multi-million dollar jury verdict on behalf of corporations. Ms. Mikulka is committed to pursuing creative, aggressive and winning approaches to the most challenging legal matters, and regularly counsels corporations pre-litigation to achieve a favorable early dispute resolution.
Ms. Mikulka has been named Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a Trial Lawyer Honor Society, and as Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in recognition of her effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation and ethical reputation. She has also been recognized for several consecutive years by the Los Angeles Super Lawyers Magazine.
Ms. Mikulka frequently writes and lectures nationwide on topics of trial advocacy, litigation management, intellectual property protection, and ethics, including at national and regional CLE conferences and at University of Chicago Law School as a guest lecturer. Some of Ms. Mikulka’s CLE programs are available as video and audio programs on ABA website. Her articles have been published in Corporate Counsel Magazine, Docket Magazine of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Daily Journal, Litigation Journal, and In-House Litigator. She is a contributing author of the 2009 book, The Financial Crisis (Thomson-West). Ms. Mikulka serves on the Editorial Board of the ABA’s Litigation Magazine.
Ms. Mikulka is a recognized leader in the national bar community, having served the past three years as national Co-Chair of American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation Committee on Corporate Counsel and in various other ABA leadership positions. She currently serves on ABA Section of Litigation’s Taskforce on Independence of the Judiciary. An authority on best practices for representing corporations, Ms. Mikulka regularly works with Chief Litigation Counsel and General Counsel of Fortune 500 companies to forecast and address legal developments impacting corporations, to develop best practices to avoid and manage litigation, to enter into alternative fee arrangements and to obtain value-driven legal service. Ms. Mikulka has moderated a number of General Counsel Forum and corporate counsel roundtable programs.
Prior to joining Zuber & Taillieu LLP, Ms. Mikulka practiced for over 12 years at some of the nation’s most reputable large law firms, including as a Partner in the global litigation firm of Howrey LLP, where she served on the firm-wide Attorney Training Committee and the Steering Committee of the Women Leadership Initiative. During law school, Ms. Mikulka worked for the SEC’s Enforcement Division and the late Honorable Linda McLaughlin of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Ms. Mikulka is devoted to pro bono and public service. With her family, she has helped found the Band of Brothers Foundation (www.bobf.org), a grassroots charity dedicated to protecting children in neglected regions of the world. She is a recipient of the Hon. Benjamin Aranda III Outstanding Public Service Award of the LA County Bar Association.
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Pepperdine University School of Law
J.D., 1996
Honors: Dean’s List
Moot Court Honor Board
University of California, Irvine
B.A., 1992
California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
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