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		Quyen Ta     President
		Quyen Ta practices law at Keker & Van Nest LLP in San Francisco. Her practice focuses on complex civil litigation and has included intellectual property, securities, legal malpractice, and complex business disputes. She has been an active member of three trial teams and has second-chaired a plaintiff-side breach of contract lawsuit that resulted in a verdict for plaintiff. She was also part of a team that obtained a defense verdict following a jury trial for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and one of its retired partners. Recently, she was a member of a trial team that obtained a liability verdict in a nine-figure international patent and trade-secret dispute, and which ultimately resulted in a favorable settlement for her client. Prior to joining Keker & Van Nest, she served as policy counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families under the auspices of the Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program. At the National Partnership, Quyen focused on workplace fairness issues affecting women and their families, and judicial nominations. Following her fellowship, Quyen clerked for the Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton of the United States District Court, Eastern District of California. Quyen graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a minor in Scandinavian literature. Prior to law school, Quyen was a community organizer at the Asian Law Caucus. She graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley in May 2003, where she was on the Admissions Committee, served as the community service chair for the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and was the symposium editor for the Asian Law Journal. She was awarded the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California community service scholarship upon graduation. Quyen is active in bar and community activities. She is the President of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California and is a Board Member of the Asian Law Caucus and the Barristers Club (Bar Association of San Francisco).