By: Robin Reasoner, Associate, San Francisco
Fenwick & West attorneys Lynda Twomey, Walter Raineri, Sheeva Ghassemi-Vanni, and I joined with Yahoo! and the Justice & Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco to deliver services to local nonprofit organizations on April 11, 2014. The Fenwick attorneys provided a couple of hours of intense training in the areas of corporate structure and governance, employment, tax, intellectual property, and privacy to members of Yahoo!’s legal department. After learning from us about the most common legal issues that nonprofits face and how to address them, the Yahoo! participants met in teams to counsel representatives from local nonprofits who had requested legal advice through the Justice & Diversity Center. Throughout the counseling sessions, the Fenwick attorneys were available for follow up questions and to provide more in-depth feedback responsive to particular facts.
This was our second annual pro bono clinic with Yahoo! aimed at serving nonprofits, and I hope this new tradition will continue far into the future. After participating last year, I eagerly returned because it is exciting to see one of our Silicon Valley neighbors as dedicated to serving the community as we are. It was a delight to partner with the Justice & Diversity Center and Yahoo! to leverage the impact we can make, particularly in legal areas within our professional expertise. I am particularly thankful to have had the opportunity to use my skills to help solve problems that distract nonprofits from their important work. I find it rewarding to know I played even a small part in helping local nonprofits thrive.
Robin, a Stanford Law School alum, is an associate in the Intellectual Property practice group at Fenwick & West LLP. She includes strategic patent counseling and obtaining domestic and foreign patent rights in a number of technical fields, including optics, computer software, and business methods in her practice. She has prepared and prosecuted numerous provisional and utility applications. Robin also provides IP due diligence and litigation support.
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