About Sebastian E.
Sebastian E. Kaplan is a licensed attorney licensed to practice law in the State of California. He used to be admitted to the California State Bar in 2007. His license is presently in active standing. Mr. Kaplan is a counsel at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, a full-service firm positioned in San Francisco, California. He has been practicing law for over nineteen years, serving clients across the greater San Francisco Bay Area and surrounding regions.
Mr. Kaplan earned his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, the place he graduated in 2006. Prior to law program, he completed his undergraduate schooling at Wesleyan University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts diploma in 2002. During his time at Stanford, he was involved in various legal clinics and externships, gaining realistic experience in intellectual property law.
Mr. Kaplan concentrates his practice in the areas of highbrow real estate law, which includes trademark legal proceedings, copyright disputes, exchange mystery instances, and complex commercial transactions. He represents clients in both federal and state courts, dealing with matters at all levels from pre-legal proceedings cease and desist letters through trial proceedings. In addition to highbrow property legal proceedings, he defends technological know-how innovators in privateness, false advertising, and other shopper-associated class movements.
Throughout his profession, Mr. Kaplan has treated instances within the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has additionally appeared earlier than the California Court of Appeal on more than one occasions. Before joining Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, he served as a clerk for the Honorable Carlos T. Bea on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law at companies in San Francisco and Oakland.
Mr. Kaplan is a member in good standing of local and countrywide bar institutions. In 2016, he used to be appointed by the president of the American Bar Association to sit on the Advisory Commission of the Standing Committee on Public Education. He is a director of the Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco and chair of the BASF Intellectual Property Section. In 2013, he served because the president of BASF’s Barristers Club, comprised of BASF lawyers with much less than ten years of practice, and was named Outstanding Barrister of the Year in 2016. He is also dedicated to pro bono homelessness prevention and frequently represents indigent tenants facing eviction. In 2015, Mr. Kaplan used to be awarded BASF’s annual Housing Justice Award for first-chairing a four-day unlawful detainer trial.
