
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Santa Clara County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 22, 2017; mediation and early neutral evaluation panels, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2016-18; partner, Hogan Lovells, 2008-18; shareholder, Heller Ehrman, 1990-2008; associate, Heller Ehrman, 1984-90; clerk, Judge Irving L. Goldberg, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1983-84
Law School: Stanford Law School
It was a reversal of sorts, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Hawk said.
Hawk spent 34 years building his career as a civil litigator at a pair of international law firms, and for the last decade, he was a partner at Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP in San Francisco, defending industry leaders like ConAgra Foods Inc. and Apple Inc. in federal court.
Then his daughter, Jessica, too... (continued)