Four Mintz Levin Members Named San Diego Super Lawyers
6/1/2007
San Diego, CA - June 1, 2007 - Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that four of the firm's attorneys -- Mitch Danzig, Jeffry A. Davis, Daniel T. Pascucci, and Eddie Rodriguez -- were selected as San Diego Super Lawyers for 2007. The list appears in the May 20, 2007 issue of The New York Times in San Diego, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and in the stand alone magazine, Southern California Super Lawyers - San Diego Edition. San Diego Super Lawyers are selected based upon ballots sent by Law & Politics to over 10,000 area attorneys. Only five percent of San Diego lawyers were named 2007 San Diego Super Lawyers.
Mitch Danzig is a member in the firm's San Diego office and practices in the Employment, Labor and Benefits, Litigation, Israel Business and Intellectual Property Sections. He has extensive experience in employment law and in intellectual property litigation. Mr. Danzig's work focuses on litigation in the areas of wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, employee raiding, trade secrets, contracts, defamation, and unfair competition. As part of his counseling practice, Mitch has performed management training for employers and regularly renders employment advice on various employment related issues. Admitted to practice in the state of California, Mr. Danzig is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Hunter College (1990), and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Arizona College of Law (1995).
Jeffry A. Davis is a member in the firm's San Diego office, practicing in the Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Commercial Law Section. Mr. Davis' practice is focused on all aspects of bankruptcy (including debtors, creditors, and committees), out of court workouts, insolvency, receiverships, and debtor/creditor rights. He is also a commercial law litigator, in areas such as contract and business disputes. Mr. Davis has been included in Best Lawyers in America every year since 1997. He is admitted to practice in California and New York, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Turnaround Management Association, the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum, the American Bar Association, and the California and San Diego Bar Associations. He received his B.A. from the State University of New York (1977) and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law (1980).
Daniel T. Pascucci is a member in the firm's San Diego office, practicing in the Litigation Section. His practice is focused on complex business litigation, intellectual property litigation, class action defense and telecommunications. Mr. Pascucci has extensive experience litigating patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. He is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Federal Communications Bar, the California Bar Association, and the San Diego Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in California and before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California. He received his B.A. from Fordham University (1990), and his J.D., cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law (1993).
Eddie Rodriguez is a member in the firm's San Diego office, practicing in the Business and Finance Section. His practice focuses on a wide range of corporate and securities matters, including corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, venture financing, technology licensing, and general business counseling. He has extensive experience with counseling public and private companies in the life science, telecommunications, software, hardware, e-commerce and information technology industries in a broad range of transactional matters. Mr. Rodriguez has represented clients in more than 200 mergers and acquisition transactions, investors and private companies in numerous private equity financings valued in excess of $200 million, and clients in numerous securities offerings. He was named to Lawdragon's Lawdragon 500 New Stars, New Worlds, a guide that recognizes "the freshest faces in American law," and The Daily Transcript's 2006 "Transcript Ten," a list of San Diego's top attorneys across all practice areas. He was also named to The Daily Transcript's "Top Influential People" in San Diego in 2006. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. He was the editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law and the articles editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review.
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