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Zuber & Taillieu LLP Adds New Partner Yuri Mikulka

Zuber & Taillieu is delighted to announce the addition of litigator Yuri Mikulka, who joins Zuber & Taillieu as a Partner. Prior to joining Zuber & Taillieu, Ms. Mikulka was a Partner at Howrey LLP, one of the nation’s largest law firms.

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 nationwide.  Her experience includes defending some of America’s best-known companies in high-profile patent infringement actions in technologies such as liquid crystal displays, semiconductor manufacturing, automotive technology and printer technology, and in disputes involving trademark, copyright, trade secret and IP licensing.  Ms. Mikulka also has served as lead counsel in a variety of commercial litigation including class actions, unfair competition actions, derivative suits, contractual disputes, securities litigation and arbitrations.  In addition, Ms. Mikulka regularly counsels corporations on strategies for avoiding litigation and obtaining early dispute resolution.  Ms. Mikulka has been named a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a Trial Lawyer Honor Society, based upon her effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation and ethical reputation.  The Los Angeles Super Lawyers Magazine has also recognized Ms. Mikulka as a “Rising Star” for three consecutive years.

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 for managing litigation, alternative fee arrangements and to obtain value-driven legal service.  She is a recognized leader in the national bar community, currently serving as national Co-Chair of American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation Committee on Corporate Counsel (with 1,500 members).  She also is active with ABA’s Minority Counsel Program and serves on a Technology Committee working on a policy for the use of Web 2.0 technology in the legal industry.  Along with leading corporate legal departments of Fortune 500 companies, she serves on the Planning Committee of ABA’s 2009 Regional Meetings intended to promote diversity of intellectual property and securities litigators in the profession.  Ms. Mikulka regularly moderates General Counsel Forum and in-house counsel roundtable programs. 

Ms. Mikulka frequently writes and lectures nationwide on topics of trial advocacy, litigation management, intellectual property protection, financial crisis related litigation, and ethics, including at ABA Conferences and at University of Chicago Law School as a guest lecturer.  Some of Ms. Mikulka’s CLE programs are available as CLE video and audio programs on ABA website.  Her articles have been published in Corporate Counsel Magazine, Daily Journal, Litigation Journal, and In-House Litigator.  She is a contributing author of the 2009 book, The Financial Crisis (Thomson-West).  Ms. Mikulka is frequently quoted in legal publications, and serves on the editorial board of the ABA’s Litigation Journal with over 75,000 subscribers.

Ms. Mikulka is devoted to pro bono and public service.  With her family, she has helped found the Band of Brothers Foundation (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.

Ms. Milkulka is admitted to the California bar.

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