Background
Gail Williams, Leslie was born in Boise, Idaho, United States.
Gail Williams, Leslie was born in Boise, Idaho, United States.
Occidental College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1974). College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (Master of Arts, 1975). University of California at Davis (Juris Doctor, 1980).
Spoken languages: French, German and Spanish.
Worked at Shaub & Williams (Los Angeles, California) specializing in European Union, International Business and Intellectual Property Transactions, and Related Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1980, California. Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Industrial Property and Copyright Law, 1980-1982.
Legal Translator for C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich, West Germany (1983), "Pharmon v.
Hoechst: Limits on the Community Exhaustion Principle in Respect of Compulsory Patent Licenses," Fordham Corporation Law Institute, 1987. "Exporting the California Franchise to the European Commission", The California International Practitioner, Volume 2, Number.
1, 1990-1991, p. 18; "Aspects of Intellectual Property law in the European Community," Hastings International"l & Comparative Law Review, 1993.
"The European Community in View of Maastricht," Los Angeles County Bar Association Seminar, June 1993. "Current Legal Developments in the European Union," Thirteenth Whittier International Law Symposium, 1996.
Appointee, Team Europe. Member: Los Angeles County Bar Association.
State Bar of California (Member, Intellectual Property Section).
American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Member: Los Angeles County Bar Association. State Bar of California (Member, Intellectual Property Section). American Intellectual Property Law Association.