Rao Ongaro Burtt & Tiliakos LLP is a litigation firm with a national presence and real trial experience. Founded to better serve our dedicated clients, our attorneys practice with one solitary goal: achieving the most favorable results in the most efficient manner possible. Our specialties include labor and employment litigation and counseling, a leading trade secrets and restrictive covenant practice, and a fast-growing commercial litigation and complex consumer class action practice. We understand the economic pressures affecting our clients, and have the flexibility to offer creative and predictable solutions.

Statement of Practice

Labor and Employment Litigation and Counseling, Employment Law and Executive Compensation, Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenant Litigation and Counseling, Commercial Litigation and Complex Consumer Class Action, Single and Multi-Plaintiff Employment Litigation, Intellectual Property.

Representative Clients:

DHL Express (USA), Inc., DHL Global Forwarding, Inc., DHL Global Mail, Inc., Exel Inc., Genesis Logistics, Inc., TrueBlue, Inc., AT&T Mobility LLC, Liberty League International, LLC, Interstate Distributor Co., Kellermeyer Building Services, LLC, Goodman Networks, Fonality Inc., Green Diamond/Simpson Timber, Integra Telecom, Connexus Corp., RR Donnelley, Vance Dairy, ORMAT, SX2 Media Labs, Inc., Crown Prince, WL Butler Construction, Global Events LLC, Darkside Productions, Inc./BBH Media, IPC International, Recreational Equipment Inc.

Rate Information

Fixed Hourly Rates
Fixed Fees Available

Address

595 Market Street, Suite 610
San Francisco, CA 94105, (San Francisco Co.)

Phone

Phone: 415-433-3900
Fax: 415-433-3950

Website

http://www.rao-ongaro.com

Firm/Affiliate Offices

New York, New York Office: 90 Park Avenue, 18th Floor, 10016. Telephone: 212-455-9255. Fax: 212-297-0005.

MEMBERS OF FIRM

David R. Ongaro (Member) born 1965; admitted to bar, 1991, California; U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California. Education: University of California, Davis (B.A., 1988); University of San Francisco (J.D., 1991). Listed, Law and Politics Magazine as a "Northern California Super Lawyer." Former Editor, California Employment Law Letter (M. Lee Smith Publishers & Printers). Partner: Perkins Coie LLP and Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP. Associate, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon in San Francisco. Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Products Liability.Email: David R. Ongaro

David R. Burtt (Member) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; admitted to bar, 1998, California; U.S. District Court, Southern, Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California. Education: Cornell University (B.S., Industrial and Labor Relations, 1995); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1998). Partner, Perkins Coie's (Employment Law and Commercial Litigation Groups). Formerly with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Silicon Valley. Reported Cases: O'Connor v. Starbucks Corp., Case No. C-06-3706 VRW, 2008 WL 2761586 (N.D.Cal. July 14, 2008); Advanta Corp. v. Dialogic Corp., Case No. C-05-2895 JF, 2006 WL 1156385 (N.D.Cal. May 02, 2006); Globespan, Inc. v. O'Neill, 151 F.Supp.2d 1229 (C.D.Cal. 2001). Practice Areas: Litigation; Intellectual Property; Labor and Employment; Commercial Law.Email: David R. Burtt

ASSOCIATES

Jonmi Koo (Associate) born 1972; admitted to bar, 2004, California. Education: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (B.A., Psychology, English, with honors, 1996; M.A., African Languages, Literature, 1998); University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., cum laude, 2004). Jonmi Koo is a senior associate in our San Francisco office, focusing her practice on intellectual property, general commercial, and labor and employment litigation. Jonmi also specializes in issues surrounding employee mobility, including the enforcement and defense of claims involving trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and unfair competition. Prior to joining Rao Ongaro LLP, Jonmi was a litigation associate with Perkins Coie, an Extern to United States District Court Judge Martin J. Jenkins, an Immigration Intern with the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant in Berkeley, and an Extern to the Honorable Dennis Montali, United States Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco. Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Shanghainese and Swahili. Practice Areas: Trade Secrets; Theft of Trade Secrets; Trade Secret Misappropriation; Labor and Employment; Commercial Law; Intellectual Property.Email: Jonmi Koo

Amelia Winchester (Associate) admitted to bar, 2008, California. Education: Haverford College (B.A., with honors, 2003); University of California, Davis School of Law (J.D., 2008). Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Civil Practice; Federal Civil Practice; Commercial Law.Email: Amelia Winchester

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