Jess Krannich is a litigation partner in the Salt Lake City office of Wilson Sonsini. A seasoned trial lawyer, Jess has won nearly 20 jury and bench trials, arbitrations, and injunctive hearings. He also has a strong record of obtaining early wins in large, complex cases through motion practice and strategic case development. Jess has won multiple zero-liability or zero-damages awards on behalf of defendants, resulting in billions of dollars in savings, and has recovered over $500 million on behalf of plaintiffs. Jess is recognized as one of the top 100 lawyers in the Intermountain West and is a go-to litigator for high-stakes and “bet-the-company” cases throughout the United States.

Jess’s client base is primarily in the high technology field, including in life sciences, medical products and devices, computer sciences, consumer products, and financial services. His practice spans multiple types of complex commercial litigation, but focuses on competition disputes ranging from trade secret and restrictive covenant litigation to intellectual property disputes, unfair competition, and antitrust litigation. Jess also has extensive experience in tort and product liability litigation and has represented clients in a variety of regulatory actions. Many of his cases involve class actions or consolidated multi-district litigation.

Maureen Ohlhausen is co-chair of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s antitrust and competition practice. A partner in the Washington, D.C., office, she advises industry-leading clients on complex antitrust and litigation matters, with a focus on high-profile cases. Sought after for her depth of experience on antitrust and Federal Trade Commission (FTC)-related issues, Maureen is known for her relationships with officials in the U.S. and abroad.

After finishing law school and clerking at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Maureen joined the FTC in 1997. She held a series of roles at the agency over the next 12 years, rising to the position of Director of the FTC Office of Policy Planning, where she led the agency’s work on e-commerce and headed the FTC’s Internet Access Task Force, which produced an influential report analyzing competition and consumer protection legal issues in the broadband and internet sectors. She then went into private practice at a leading telecommunications law firm, where she headed the FTC practice group.

In 2012, Maureen was confirmed by the Senate as a Commissioner of the FTC and was appointed Acting Chairman in January 2017, a role she held until May 2018. As Acting Chairman, Maureen directed all aspects of the agency’s antitrust work, including merger review, conduct enforcement, and all consumer protection enforcement, with an emphasis on privacy and technology issues. Under her leadership, the FTC won several influential merger challenges in court and reached a number of key digital privacy settlements. To date, Maureen is the only FTC Commissioner to have received the Robert Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to the FTC.

Marina Tsatalis is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she specializes in disputes involving employment and trade secrets law. Marina advises and represents the world’s leading technology, communications, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies in significant trade secret and employee mobility matters, and her advice is sought regularly by executives, legal departments, and boards of directors on complex, high-visibility, and high-value restrictive covenant, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other employment-related issues.

Marina has extensive experience serving as lead trial counsel, and has successfully litigated a broad spectrum of cases in state and federal courts and in arbitrations throughout the country. She also has argued cases before the California Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and was successful in obtaining a unanimous published decision from the Ninth Circuit recognizing for the first time an affirmative defense to employer liability for harassment by a supervisor under California law in Kohler v. Inter-Tel Technologies.

In addition to numerous decisions granting summary judgment for her clients from both judges and arbitrators, she has obtained multiple defense verdicts on behalf of her clients and has successfully prosecuted several high-value cross-claims. Marina’s trial team also recently obtained a favorable jury verdict on behalf of a former executive in his breach of contract action against his former employer, resulting in a judgment exceeding $20 million, making it one of the largest judgments ever entered in Sonoma County history. She has substantial experience as lead counsel in complex multi-party cases, representing both multiple defendants and bringing claims against multiple plaintiffs, including in a recent lawsuit against an overseas pharmaceutical company and numerous other defendants in a case involving breach of a covenant not to compete, breach of fiduciary duty, and trade secret misappropriation.