Lisa Kobialka

Lisa Kobialka has been at the forefront of some of the most challenging trials in different venues across the country and has handled more than 200 litigations.

Lisa has counseled and represented both plaintiffs and defendants in complex business and intellectual property litigation — including more than 45 trials and evidentiary hearings in numerous jurisdictions across the United States — involving claims for patent infringement, complex business disputes, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition and trademark infringement.

Lisa represents clients in a variety of technology-related industries, with a particular emphasis on the energy, computer science and pharmaceutical sectors. The general litigation matters she handled that went to trial recently include breach of contract and tort claims in a financial dispute. In just the past year, Lisa successfully tried a breach of contract and shareholder dispute in a Virginia circuit court and obtained a jury verdict of $151.5 million in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for infringement of network security patents.  

• Secured a $151.5 million verdict for Centripetal Networks Inc. in a patent infringement trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
• Obtained a non-suit on behalf of a client in a breach of contract and financial tort dispute in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia.
• Represented a computer network security company asserting patent infringement in the Eastern District of Virginia, resulting in a judgment of over $2 billion in damages.

• J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law, 1997
• M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 1993
• B.A., University of California, Davis, 1992

• American Bar Association
• American IP Association
• California Bar Association
• Japanese American Bar Association
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Women’s Intellectual Property Law Association

• California, 1997