Overview
Wendy Xiao is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson with experience at all stages of litigation, including drafting case dispositive motions and taking and defending depositions.
Before joining the firm, Wendy was a law clerk to Judge Holly A. Thomas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
At Columbia Law School, Wendy was a James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She served as the executive notes editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and a staff editor of A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. She was also a two-time semifinalist in the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court competition.
As co-chair of the Food From the Bar Committee, Wendy directs the firm’s participation in the annual six-week Food From the Bar campaign, a friendly competition between law firms and legal offices to raise funds, donate food and volunteer for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.
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Experience
Litigation
Google, in obtaining a complete victory over Data Engine Technologies in an appeal regarding six patents related to the use of tabbed interfaces in Google Sheets. After Google’s initial win was reversed by the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit, we obtained a favorable construction of a disputed claim term – “three-dimensional spreadsheet” – in Data Engine’s patents and won summary judgment on all claims before the Federal Circuit.
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Publications
- “The Road to Racial Justice: Resolving the Disproportionate Health Burden Imposed on Communities of Color by Highway Pollution,” Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2021