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  • White House Fellowship, 1978-1979
  • Selected one of the "Super Lawyers" for Silicon Valley and Northern California, 1999-present

  • University of California, Hastings College of Law (J.D., 1969), Graduated eighth in a class of 236; Order of the Coif; Managing Editor of the Hastings Law Journal
  • Stanford University (A.B., Political Science and Economics, 1966), Scholarship athlete in football; participant in East-West Shrine and Hula Bowl Allstar football games; drafted by the Oakland Raiders

  • California
  • The United States Supreme Court
  • The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • All California state and federal courts

Craig S. Ritchey

Partner
Palo Alto
P: (650) 843-2705
F: (650) 857-1288
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Mr. Ritchey is a partner in the Trial group, head of the Palo Alto office, and a member of the firm's Policy Committee (Board of Directors).  His practice focuses on business litigation and resolving business disputes.  He has been lead counsel in numerous unfair competition, intellectual property, trade regulation, contract, commercial and technology lawsuits and arbitrations.  He also represents senior corporate officers and companies in negotiating employment and separation agreements; venture firms in their partnership disputes; and beverage distributors re contract issues with suppliers and purchase and sale of distribution rights.

Representative Work

  • Represented two beverage distributors in breach of contract action against its supplier for improper termination of the distribution agreement resulting in a judgment of $4.5 million dollars for the distributors.
  • Represented a semiconductor manufacturing company as plaintiff in an anti-trust action against a computer manufacturer for illegal tie-in resulting in a verdict and judgment for the semiconductor manufacturing company.
  • Represented a family trust in a breach of fiduciary duty claim against one of the beneficiaries who had unlawfully obtained title to a commercial office building and had appropriated several millions of rent.Obtained an arbitration award for return of the building and repayment of the rent.
  • Represented a publicly traded semiconductor equipment manufacturing company and its board of directors against the claim by its founder for breach of contract, racial discrimination and violation of Sarbanes-Oxley rules.

Professional Activities

  • Special Master for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Founding member and managing director of Generation Ventures, LLC (1994-1997), which was a venture firm doing business in the People's Republic of China
  • White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the United States Secretary of the Interior, 1978-1979 (focus on Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act)
  • Chairman of the National Public Lands Advisory Council, 1979-1980
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Stanford University Alumni Association, 2008-2009
  • Member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees Committee on Alumni External Affairs, 2007-2010
  • Member of the Stanford University Athletic Board, 2004-2010