Vicki Veenker helps parties move past differences.
As one of the country’s leading technology mediators, Ms. Veenker has been mediating technology and intellectual property-related disputes for more than fifteen years, and has more than twenty five years of patent trial and appellate litigation experience at leading firms. Ms. Veenker has helped parties ranging from Fortune 50 companies to universities to start-ups resolve their IP disputes.
Ms. Veenker is an appointed member of the Mediation Roster for the International Trade Commission, as well as the Mediation and Neutral Evaluation panels of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In addition, Vicki was named to the inaugural list of the World’s Leading Technology Neutrals by the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, and continues to be named to its Tech List every year.
ABOUT VICKI
Vicki S. Veenker frequently serves as a neutral in patent infringement and other intellectual property cases. Ms. Veenker has over twenty-five years of patent trial and appellate litigation experience. As a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP, she founded its Silicon Valley intellectual property group. Previously, Ms. Veenker was a partner at Fish & Neave (now Ropes & Gray) in Palo Alto, after beginning her career in its New York office. In 2013, she founded Veenker Law Offices, which represents parties to IP disputes, and subsequently Veenker Dispute Resolution. Ms. Veenker also has expertise in sports law, having served as General Counsel to Women’s Professional Soccer in 2008-2010.
Ms. Veenker taught IP-related courses, including ADR in Patent Cases, as an adjunct professor of law at UC Hastings and Santa Clara University. In 2002, she was named one of California’s top 20 lawyers under 40 by California Law Business and has been named a leading IP practitioner numerous times by Practical Law Company, The Legal 500, SuperLawyers, and others.
She earned a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law & Technology, and a B.S. in Biochemistry and a B.A. in Political Science, both from Indiana University.
MEDIATION ROSTERS
U.S. International Trade Commission
Appointed by ITC Commissioners to the Mediation Program Roster
2013 - Present
Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center
Selected for SVAMC's The Tech List featuring the World’s Leading Technology Arbitrators and Mediators, every year since its inception in 2014
Federal Court
Appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to both its Mediation and Early Neutral Evaluation Panels
2006 - Present
