Eric Chan

Associate

Eric Chan is an associate in O'Melveny's Los Angeles office, a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group, and a member of the Electronic Discovery and Document Retention Practice, both within the Litigation Department.  Eric focuses his practice on litigation, with a particular emphasis on intellectual property matters.  Eric has unique, hands-on experience handling large-scale electronic discovery issues as a result of his representation of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in AMD v. Intel.  His electronic discovery experience includes litigating issues relating to the preservation, collection, processing and production of terabytes of electronic data and designing and managing large-scale document reviews.  He is also familiar with crafting document retention policies, including those relating to enterprise-wide information technology systems.  Eric is a co-author of BNA’s forthcoming practice guide, Spoliation of Electronically Stored Information, and is also a key contributor to BNA's recently released practice guide, Preserving Electronically Stored Information: A Practical Approach.

Professional Activities

Clerk,  Honorable Mariana R. Pfaelzer, U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Extern,  Honorable S. James Otero, U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Admitted to Practice,  U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Member,  American Bar Association; Los Angeles Intellectual Property Inn of Court; American Society for Microbiology (2001-03)
Author,  "Asserting Foreign Patent Claims in U.S. Federal Courts: What's Left after Voda v. Cordis?" Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology (2008); comment, "The Food and Drug Administration and the Future of the Brain-Computer Interface: Adapting FDA Device Law to the Challenges of Human-Machine Enhancement," John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law (2007)
Presentations,  "ESI: Preservation/Early Case Assessment," O'Melveny & Myers LLP (June 10, 2009); "Electronic Discovery: It Could Happen to You!" O'Melveny & Myers LLP (April 14, 2009); "Jeopar-feud to be a Millionaire!" Los Angeles Intellectual Property American Inns of Court (January 27, 2009); "New Developments in Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law," O'Melveny & Myers LLP (November 12, 2008)