David Morales

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     David Morales has represented business and nonprofit clients in matters relating to technology, real estate development, healthcare, agriculture, e-commerce, entertainment, publishing, and visual arts matters.  Mr. Morales has litigated real estate, business, and intellectual property matters in the California Superior Courts, in the United States District Courts in several states, as well as before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.  As outside general counsel, Mr. Morales is experienced in a variety of real estate, business and technology transactions, trademark and copyright enforcement, as well as in labor contract negotiations, and employment discrimination matters.

 

     Prior to law school, Mr. Morales earned a degree in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a graduate degree in Economic Policy from Princeton University.   Mr. Morales subsequently worked in civil engineering and in international development prior to returning to the United States to attend law school.

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     Mr. Morales earned a Certificate in Taxation Law from the U. C. Law, San Francisco (formerly U. C. Hastings College of the Law), the oldest law school west of the Mississippi.  Following law school, Mr. Morales served as a Staff Attorney with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where he handled a variety of intellectual property, taxation, civil rights and immigration appeals.  Mr. Morales then practiced business and intellectual property law with two of the leading firms on the Central Coast.  

 

     Mr. Morales is the former Vice-Chairperson of the Trade Secrets Committee of the California State Bar, Intellectual Property Section.  Mr. Morales is admitted to practice before the United States Federal Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the California Supreme Court.