Thomas Hixson

Judge Hixson earned his undergraduate and law degrees, both magna cum laude from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, respectively.[4][5]

Upon graduating law school, Judge Hixson served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima, U.S. Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[4][5]

From 1998-2002, Judge Hixson was an Associate with the law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen LLP.[5][4] From 2002-2014, he worked with the firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP (which McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP eventually became) as an Associate and then Partner.[5][4] From 2014-2018, he was a Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.[5][4] At those law firms, Judge Hixson's practice encompassed complex litigation in federal and state courts in fields that included intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition, water management, energy regulation and telecommunications.[5][4] Specifically, at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Judge Hixson was a Partner in the Intellectual Property — Disputes practice that focused on federal computer software-related IP cases, while his practice continued to include general complex litigation matters, including state and federal antitrust and unfair competition cases.[5]

Judge Hixson also served as a past chair of the California State Bar Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section (now the Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section of the California Lawyers Association) from 2009-2010, having positions of leadership within the Section since 2005.[4][5] He has also contributed to the Section's treatise, California State Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law, published by Matthew Bender by writing, since 2012, the annual update to the treatise's chapter on the Consumers Legal Remedies Act.[4][5] His pro bono work while in private practice included serving as counsel in a complex challenge to telecommunications marketing practices before the California Public Utilities Commission and assisting tenants facing eviction via the San Francisco Superior Court's Housing Negotiation Project.[4][5] He also served on the Board of Directors of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel.[4][5]

• United States District Court for the Northern District of California
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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