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Susan Fahringer

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Partner

Firmwide Management and Executive Committees

Susan Fahringer, a partner in the firm's commercial litigation practice, has over 18 years' experience representing clients involved in complex business and commercial litigation and intellectual property litigation (including copyright, trademark and trade secret litigation). She has represented individual artists and professionals as well as clients from a variety of industries, from video game and software companies to capital equipment manufacturers. Susan also has substantial experience counseling clients with respect to protection and enforcement of their intellectual property rights and in helping clients develop and enforce anticounterfeiting programs.

Susan has worked for Perkins Coie since 1990. She has served on the Firmwide Executive Committee since 2000, has served on the Firm's Management Committee since 2007, and has served as Chair of the Firmwide Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group.

Professional Recognition

  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2010
  • Listed in Washington Law & Politics, "Washington’s Super Lawyers," 2000 - 2009
  • Listed in Washington Law & Politics, "Top 50 Washington Female Super Lawyers"
  • Listed in Washington Law & Politics, "Rising Stars," 1999
  • Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell

Professional Leadership

  • American Bar Association, Litigation Section
  • LAWFund, Director

Education

  • University of California, Davis School of Law, J.D., 1991
    U.C. Davis Law Review, Staff Editor
  • Stanford University, B.A., Philosophy, 1985

Bar Admissions

  • Washington
  • California

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington