Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Heather Meeker Recognized as a
2006 Woman of Distinction
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal Honors Region’s Distinguished
Female Attorneys
EAST PALO ALTO, CA-- May 16, 2006 --
Heather Meeker, a shareholder
in the Silicon Valley office of the international law firm Greenberg
Traurig, LLP, has been selected as a 2006 Woman of Distinction Honoree
by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Meeker was
chosen along with only three other female attorneys in the region
to receive this distinction in the law category.
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“We congratulate Heather on this outstanding accomplishment,”
said Todd Rumberger, managing shareholder of the Silicon Valley
office. “We are gratified to have Heather publicly recognized by
the community for her impeccable devotion to client services and
her unparalleled expertise in the open source arena. Time and again,
she has proven herself invaluable to our growing Silicon Valley
office, as well as to the entire firm and its clients.”
Women of Distinction Honorees are nominated by the Silicon Valley
business community and selected based on criteria such as the title
and scope of their positions, career path, and degree of influence
in their industries and the community.
Meeker focuses her practice on intellectual property transactions
for technology clients in a variety of industries, including software,
communications, educational testing, computer equipment and medical
devices. She is one of the leading experts in the field of open
source software licensing and has advised a variety of companies
on the intricacies of open source licensing.
An accomplished author and speaker, she has written many scholarly
and practice-oriented articles and is a frequent lecturer on technology
licensing topics. Meeker’s publications include A Primer on Intellectual
Property Licensing, a text book now in its second edition. For
the past eight years, Meeker has served as an adjunct professor
of law at the University of California Hastings College Of Law,
where she teaches a seminar in technology licensing.
Professionally active, Meeker is co-chair of the Open Source
Software Committee of the ABA Section of Science and Technology
Law, an advisory board member of Open Bar, and a member of both
the American Law Institute and the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil
Rights. She also serves as pro bono counsel for the Mozilla
Foundation, which she assisted with legal matters relating to the
Firefox 1.0 and 1.5 releases. In 2005, Meeker was named one of the
top intellectual property lawyers in California by the Daily
Journal and a Northern California Super Lawyer by Key Professional
Media, Inc.
Meeker earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley,
Boalt Hall School of Law (1994), where she was editor-in-chief of
the High Technology Law Journal and elected to Order of the
Coif. She earned her B.A., magma cum laude, in economics
from Yale University (1979).
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with 1,500
attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The
firm is ranked seventh on The American Lawyer's Am Law 100 listing of the
largest law firms in the U.S., based on number of lawyers.
Greenberg Traurig serves clients from offices in: Albany, NY; Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; Atlanta, GA; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver,
CO; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL;
Morristown, NJ; New York, NY; Orange County, CA; Orlando, FL; Philadelphia, PA;
Phoenix, AZ; Sacramento, CA; Silicon Valley, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Tokyo, Japan;
Tysons Corner, VA; Washington, D.C.; West Palm Beach, FL; Wilmington, DE; and Zurich,
Switzerland. Additionally, the firm has strategic alliances with the following independent
law firms: Olswang, London and Brussels; Studio Santa Maria, Milan and Rome; and
Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices in Tokyo.
For additional information, please visit the firm's Web site at
www.gtlaw.com.
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