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An experienced business trial lawyer, Andy Halaby focuses his practice on intellectual property and technology litigation and professional responsibility matters.

Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation. Andy has served as lead counsel in dozens of intellectual property cases, including patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, unfair competition, cyberpiracy, trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, and deceptive advertising cases. Andy has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, in matters ranging from six to nine figures of liability exposure, involving many different products and services. A former professional engineer, Andy is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Among other professional pursuits, he serves as an editor of Landslide® magazine, the flagship publication of the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law. Andy also serves as editor of Snell & Wilmer's IP litigation blog, SWIPLit.com.

Professional Responsibility Matters. Having focused upon professional responsibility issues for many years, Andy also counsels lawyers and law firms on professional responsibility matters. The Chair of Snell & Wilmer’s Ethics Committee, he also serves as a member of the State Bar of Arizona Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct and as Chair of the State Bar's Conflict Case Committee, whose members serve as volunteer bar counsel investigating and prosecuting disciplinary complaints on the Bar's behalf.

Other. Andy also has widely varied commercial litigation experience, including securities, lender liability, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, antitrust, derivative action, class action, ERISA, False Claims Act, data security, corporate governance, commercial real estate, trust and estate, corporate defalcation, defamation, and other complex commercial litigation matters. He has represented banks, credit unions, insurance companies, and broker-dealers, among many others. Andy also serves as an adjunct professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He presents and publishes frequently on a wide variety of legal issues, including but not limited to trademark and unfair competition, patent, civil procedure, evidence, and legal ethics issues.