Allison Cheung is an Attorney at SV Employment Law Firm, where she focuses on employment and business litigation in federal and state courts.

Prior to joining SV Employment Law Firm, she was an Associate at Jones Day and Cooley LLP representing companies and executives in complex commercial, securities, and employment litigation.  She also assisted companies in responding to SEC and DOJ investigations and in conducting internal corporate investigations and related counseling.  Allison served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the United States District Court, Northern District of California.

Allison is a member of the Advisory Board of OneJustice, an organization that seeks to expand legal services to help Californians in need and remove financial and geographical barriers to justice.  She is an active member of the Federal Bar Association, the Bar Association of San Francisco, and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley.

Ashok Ramani is a Partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Litigation Department, practicing in Northern California. He is an experienced trial lawyer who focuses his practice on patent and trade secret litigation. He has represented major technology companies in high-stakes IP disputes. Mr. Ramani also has substantial experience handling class actions, employment cases and investigations, and complex commercial disputes.

Mr. Ramani has tried 16 jury and bench trials in federal and state courts nationwide. On behalf of defendant clients, he has won motions to dismiss, summary judgment, and at trial. For his plaintiff clients, he has won repeatedly at trial and secured multiple nine-figure settlements. Leading publications, including Chambers and the Daily Journal, have repeatedly recognized Mr. Ramani as among the country’s top IP trial lawyers.

Outside of Davis Polk, Mr. Ramani has a strong connection within the legal community regionally and nationally. He currently serves on the Lawyers Representative Committee for the Northern District of California and is a member of the N.D. Cal. Patent Instructions and Rules Attorney Advisory Committee. He previously served on State Bar of California’s Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, as co-chair of the North American South Asian Bar Association’s IP and litigation sections as well as the Vice Chair of the board of managers for Urban Services YMCA.

Mr. Ramani graduated with high honors from UC Berkeley before earning his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Belinda S Lee is a partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department. Her practice focuses on cartel matters and complex business litigation.

Belinda regularly represents US and Asian companies in abuse of dominance investigations and price-fixing investigations and private damages actions before regulators and courts in the US, Canada, Europe, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Australia. She also has significant experience representing clients in civil class actions, mass tort actions, and on issues of personal privacy.

Belinda serves on the editorial board of the ABA’s Antitrust magazine and is a frequent author and speaker on legal issues relating to expert witnesses, antitrust compliance and law firm diversity issues. She serves by appointment as the Chair of the Judiciary Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Belinda also believes it is important to give back to the community, and has served on the Boards of several community and non-profit organizations, including the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Justice & Diversity Center, the NALP Foundation, the Western Center on Law & Poverty, the Constitutional Rights Foundation and the California Heritage Museum. She was recognized as one of the “Most Powerful & Influential Women” by the National Diversity Council in 2015.

Belinda received a JD (cum laude) from Harvard Law School in 1998 and a BSFS (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1995.

David Tsai is an Intellectual Property Litigation Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.  He is resident in Pillsbury’s San Francisco office and Co-Head of the firm’s Taiwan practice. David’s practice focuses on patent, trade secret, complex breach of contract, and product defect litigation for companies innovating biotechnology, medical devices, software, and hardware. David is fluent in spoken Taiwanese and Chinese Mandarin and has successfully represented numerous Taiwan, Korea, and China-based companies. David is the 2018 President of the Asian American Bar Association (AABA) of the Greater Bay Area, a past President of the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA), and past Co-Chair of the Minority Bar Coalition and Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF). He currently serves as a board member for the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) and the University of California, Riverside. David is committed to serving pro bono clients. He has worked on immigration pro bono matters with the Asian Law Caucus, APILO, NCLR, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, including successfully representing a transgender Cambodian man. In 2016, David was recognized by the California State Legislature for his work in civil rights. David is a graduate of Harvard, Stanford, and Santa Clara University.

James Kan is a partner at Goldstein Borgen Dardarian & Ho, based in Oakland, California. Beginning as a Civil Rights Fellow, he has focused his legal career on protecting the civil rights of workers and those marginalized by society. James specializes in representing employees and plaintiffs in complex employment and consumer class/collective/representative actions in California and nationwide. He also represents employees in executive and professional severance negotiations.

James previously served on the Advisory Board for the East Bay Community Law Center and volunteers with the Legal Aid at Work Workers’ Rights Clinic and the Caucus’ Workers’ Rights Clinic.

James received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. Prior to law school, James taught Sixth Grade in Paterson, New Jersey with Teach for America.

Lin Chan is a Partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP.

Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Lin spent the past four years litigating nationwide employment discrimination and wage and hour class action lawsuits throughout the country. She also worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals from 2007 to 2008.

Prior to attending law school, Lin worked as a labor organizer for the Service Employees International Union. Lin received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2007. While studying at Stanford, Lin was the Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and served as the Fundraising Chair of the Shaking the Foundations Progressive Lawyering Conference. During her time at Stanford, Lin participated in the Stanford Immigrants Rights Clinic, where she successfully represented a Guatemalan refugee in her application for asylum and wrote an amicus brief to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Human Rights Watch.

Monica Ramani is a seasoned business development executive and has helped Fortune 500 companies scale their businesses by forging enterprise relationships, developing and executing strategic plans, and fostering innovation cross-functionally. Since graduating from Haas’ undergraduate business program, she has held both analytical and strategic roles at bulge bracket investment banks, technology companies and consulting firms including CSFB, Autoweb.com, UBS and GLG. Originally from NYC, she has always led a bicoastal life, moving to NYC in 2003 for her MBA from Columbia and returning to the Bay Area in 2011. Currently she is helping both startups and large publicly traded technology companies with their growth and innovation strategies to address the disruption they are facing in the marketplace. As a first generation Asian American, she has always had a passion for social impact and helping the underserved in her community. She began volunteering with organizations including Asha and South Asian Youth Action and she is honored to be on the board of the ALC. In her spare time she enjoys running (completed the NYC marathon in 2005), playing tennis, wine tasting and play dates with her two nieces.

Ms. Santos is the Director at Trucker Huss APC. She counsels employers and multiemployer trusts on all aspects of their employee benefit plans, including health and welfare plans, Section 125 cafeteria plans, and qualified retirement plans. She assists clients with compliance matters; administrative and plan design issues; plan, SPD and amendment drafting; IRS submissions; IRS and DOL investigations; and the review and negotiation of service provider agreements, including investment manager agreements. Tiffany frequently makes presentations on health plan matters, including health care reform (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010), HIPAA, COBRA, and cafeteria plans, and on investment–‐related matters, including ERISA’s impact on alternative investments.