LAWRENCE C. LOCKER

Litigation/Trial Attorney
(206) 676-7000

Practice: Larry Locker is an accomplished AV-rated trial lawyer and counselor assisting a wide range of clients in business disputes, including insurance coverage and intellectual property matters.

Experience: With more than 20 years of experience, Larry has routinely counseled clients in all aspects of the litigation process and has successfully argued and tried cases in numerous courts in Washington and other jurisdictions. Larry has also successfully represented clients in many arbitrations and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Larry’s successes include representation of a software company in a major antitrust action involving complex intellectual property and software licensing issues, which resulted in a multi-hundred million dollar settlement (Caldera, Inc. v. Microsoft, Inc.). In addition, Larry has obtained favorable results in patent infringement, trade secret, antispamming, insurance coverage and tort defense matters. Larry has also successfully litigated numerous real estate disputes.

Prior to joining Summit Law Group as a partner in 1999, Larry managed a private practice (Law Offices of Lawrence Locker), and also worked as a litigation attorney at Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, and Shidler McBroom and Gates (now part of K&L Gates).

Representative Matters:

View full list of Larry’s representative matters.

• Intalco Aluminum Company v. Central National Insurance Co., et al. Currently representing manufacturing corporation in multi-ten million dollar case seeking reimbursement for environmental cleanup costs under insurance policies issued to the corporation.


• Obtained for corporation client, in a pending case, an order granting preliminary injunction against former chief executive officer and majority shareholder, prohibiting him from representing to corporation’s customers and others that he holds ownership rights in the company’s patented intellectual property.


• Successfully defended corporation in multi-million dollar claim alleging unlawful spamming and unauthorized access to internet service provider’s servers.


• Defended corporate officer and director in lawsuit by investor seeking more than $1 million dollars. Successfully settled for a small fraction of the claim.


• Prevailed as counsel for defendant estate in action brought by plaintiff claiming one-half interest in defendant’s real property, plus attorneys’ fees and right to occupancy. Successfully removed plaintiff from the property before trial and settled during trial for a small fraction of the claim.


• Negotiated successful resolution for plaintiff client in an arbitration proceeding involving trade secrets and breach of software license claims, including recovery of attorney’s fees.


• Represented polymer plastics manufacturing corporation in prosecution of two patent infringement cases with antitrust counterclaims. Obtained favorable stipulated judgments and dismissal of both counterclaims.

Education: UCLA School of Law (J.D., 1985), Distinguished Advocate, UCLA Moot Court Honors Program; Columbia University (Master of International Affairs, 1991); UCLA (B.A., Economics, magna cum laude, 1981)

Honors: Martindale-Hubbell peer-review rated AV/preeminent (4.7 out of 5.0). Peer review comments include:

• “He is a lawyer of exceptional integrity and ability. He is a credit to the profession.”
• Larry Locker is a first-class trial lawyer, with particular strength in handling witnesses in the courtroom.”
• Larry is an excellent lawyer with good judgment.”

Speaking Engagements:

• Evidence and Expert Testimony Best Practices, National Business Institute, December 2009 and November 2008.


• Intellectual Property Protection Strategy, CFO Roundtable, October 2007.


• Contracts and Negotiations: The Litigation Angle in Drafting Commercial Agreements, Washington State Bar Association, October 2006.

Publications:

• Admissibility of Scientific and Other Expert Testimony in Federal and Washington Courts, National Business Institute, 2008 and 2009.


• New Horizons—The False Claims Act Outside of the Departments of Health and Human Services, American Bar Association, National Institute on the Civil False Claims Act and Qui Tam Enforcement, 2000.


• Co-author of a report to the Truth Commission for El Salvador, filed while serving as leader of a legal delegation organized by the San Francisco Bar Association that traveled to El Salvador and investigated civilian deaths from an airstrike on their village, 1992.



Bar Memberships: American Bar Association
Member, Litigation Section and Committees on Insurance Coverage and Intellectual Property Litigation Member, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, International Section, Washington State Bar Association, State Bar of California.