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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
101 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3070
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94111
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Rachael Lamkin
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Partner
Career
Rachael Lamkin is a partner at Baker Botts in the IP litigation group. Rachael litigates from both sides of the v but her specialty is patent litigation defense. Passionate about strategy and leverage in litigation, Rachael shifts the asymmetries that traditionally hamper the defense side, e.g., asymmetries in information, cost, financing, and damages. In so doing, Rachael has been able to obtain multiple attorney’s fees awards and game-changing settlements, e.g., forcing a highly litigious patent monetization entity to take a public injunction agreeing to permanently cease litigation against all California entities.
In her career as outside counsel, lead counsel, and in-house counsel, Rachael has presided over more than 100 patent litigations. She has represented clients in IP matters in federal court, including the Northern, Southern, and Central Districts of California, the Western & Eastern Districts of Texas, Customs, the ITC, the CIT, the Federal Circuit, and has coordinated with counsel in the European Union and China where clients have required cross-border collaboration.
Rachael is faculty at the Practicing Law Institute for the patent litigation curriculum and Southern University School of Law (patent law).
Rachael is a co-founder of the Lead Counsel Summit, a training and mentoring academy for women poised to occupy the first chair in patent litigation (https://www.leadcounselsummit.com).
Rachael earned her JD from University of California, Davis School of Law (2006), during which she was a moot court national champion, a federal judicial clerk for the Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton, and a law clerk with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where she received a commendation for excellence from the U.S. Attorney.
Rachael is committed to pro bono work and has provided services to the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Surfrider Foundation, and numerous artists, including multiple cases against The Frida Kahlo Corporation, therein defending Latina artists creating work honoring Frida Kahlo.
Memberships
State Bar of California
Faculty, Patent Law, Southern University Law Center
Faculty, Patent Law Institute
American Bar Association’s Air & Space Law Committee
Education
J.D., University of California Davis School of Law 2006
Senior Editor, Business Law Journal
Moot Court National Team
Moot Court Honors Board
Neumiller Moot Court Champion
Patent Law Moot Court Team Coach
B.A., Philosophy, Minor, Neuroscience, California State University, Sacramento 2000
cum laude
Personal
When not litigating and teaching, Rachael enjoys mountain running, tennis, obstacle course racing, falling off her wing foil, and pranking her close friends and colleagues.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense