Kalpana Srinivasan, co-managing partner of Susman Godfrey, has been named a 2024 Top Plaintiff Lawyer in California by the Daily Journal. As recognized by the Daily Journal: , “Srinivasan has established herself as a go-to litigator for bet-the-company cases, particularly those involving complex technology. ”Most recently she won a $65.7 million jury verdict after a four-day trial on behalf of Paltalk Holdings, a global communications software innovator, in a patent infringement lawsuit against Cisco Systems in the Western District of Texas.
Just a few months ago, Ms. Srinivasan secured a court judgment confirming a nearly $160 million arbitral award on behalf of mortgage technology servicing client, Black Knight, against loan provider, PennyMac for its misuse of confidential information. The award followed a nearly two-month arbitration in Jacksonville, Florida in 2023.
Ms. Srinivasan is currently serving as lead counsel for Yale University, litigating its trade secret and breach of contract claims related to targeted protein degradation trade secrets developed by a Yale professor. Read more about Kalpana’s work here or read her Daily Journal profile here.
