Alex Reese helps individuals and companies of all sizes resolve disputes involving technology and issues of unfair competition. He has helped clients with pre-litigation counseling and alternative dispute resolution, and he has litigated cases through trial and appeal in matters involving trade secrets, antitrust and unfair competition, employee mobility and non-competition agreements, patent infringement, consumer confusion, copyrights, and more.

His notable engagements have included:

• Winning a multimillion dollar verdict after a six-week trade secrets trial in the Northern District of California. Alex was an integral member of the trial team and handled the direct and cross examinations of several key witnesses.
• Obtaining the largest ever antitrust settlement in California state court history on behalf of a certified class of California companies in a case against healthcare giant Sutter Health for its anticompetitive conduct that has resulted in decades of hospital overcharges. Alex was instrumental in preparing the case and litigating it through discovery and summary judgment.
• Advising and counseling more than ten companies in the data analytics and scraping field following the firm’s victory in the precedent-setting case hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn. These clients offer diverse services analyzing social media platform data, including influencer marketing, recruiting tools, lead generation companies, and social media advertising.
• Representing companies and employees in venture capital, agricultural, and other industries in pre-litigation dispute resolution and litigation on employee exits, enforceability of non-compete agreements, and duty of loyalty claims.
• Winning a $29 million award, including attorneys’ fees, in an arbitration on behalf of a director of a venture capital firm in claims against the firm regarding the value of his ownership stake, the enforceability of non-compete agreements, and his right to vested carry.
• Winning complete defense judgments under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for a leading online retailer accused of contributory copyright infringement.
• Representing an international telecommunications company in obtaining a jury verdict of patent infringement against a telephone chipmaker in the Northern District of California.
• Winning a complete victory at summary judgment on behalf of a leading e-commerce company in a suit involving breach of contract, antitrust violations, and defamation in the Western District of Washington.
• Reversing partial summary judgment on behalf of two creators of a role-playing game in a Ninth Circuit appeal involving claims of trademark and copyright infringement, breach of contract, and business torts.

Alex is a member of the Sedona Conference drafting committee on trade secrets issues. He is the past board member and president of several Bay Area legal services and non-profit organizations, and he served as an appointed member of the San Francisco MTA Advisory Committee. He currently serves as the firm’s hiring partner and is an active member of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s intellectual property and antitrust sections.