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General Biography
Practice Areas
Antitrust & Competition
Business Commercial
Class Action & Mass Tort
Cybersecurity & Privacy
Employment Law
Entertainment & Sports
Environmental Law
Health Care
Intellectual Property
International & Cross-Border
Personal Injury
Professional Liability
Real Property
Securities
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Background and Education
Lizbeth Hasse has served as mediator, arbitrator, negotiator, or special master since 1998 in over 1,000 matters in the United States as well as internationally. Bringing 30+ years of international experience in the fields of intellectual property, business operations, entertainment and media, and technology law, Ms. Hasse has proven sophistication to manage a wide range of disputes.
Ms. Hasse is best known for her commitment to the process and its participants. Her resourceful insights, tenacity, intellectual acumen, and masterful communication skills enable her to resolve high stakes and multi-party cases involving highly talented lawyers and their clients. Ms. Hasse is also a mentor to new mediators and frequently speaks and writes about mediation and intellectual property.
Representative Matters
Settlement master since 2007, for highest grossing US rock band
Part of team that settled numerous banking and financial institution actions arising out of Enron collapse
Part of team that designed processes and settled multiple antitrust/practice fixing cases in the DRAM, SRAM, LCD, and other multinational competition matters
Part of a team that resolved class action and other cases in the Adelphia bankruptcy
Mediated and managed process for landmark environmental case involving indigenous Peruvian Amazon communities versus a major petro-chemical company
Mediated several complex securities cases following public offerings of high valued Chinese energy and resources companies
Structured process and helped resolve major copyright termination, copyright infringement, and related rights of motion picture studios and content originators and estates
Mediated high-value technology development and licensing cases involving university technology exchange and private industry
Neutral evaluator for trademark dispute involving major technology mark
Mediated numerous trademark actions involving disruptive or evolving technology and rights-holders in the music, video, and gaming industries
Negotiation of high tech-venture involving governmental and private interests in West Africa
USAID evaluator and designer of rule of law, judicial, and legal reform projects in Central Asia and Eastern and Central European countries
Representative Matters
Antitrust & Competition
Large complex actions involving price fixing and anti-competitive allegations in SRAM, DRAM, LCD, egg distribution, and health care industries
Board Governance
Variety of board disputes and dysfunctional situations for non-profit and profit entities; board governance reform in corporate derivative actions; structuring of mergers of large charitable organizations
Business Commercial
High-value merger and investor disputes; breach of buy-sell agreements in ongoing business relations; joint agency dispute; back-dating options actions; attorneys’ fee arbitrations; partnership and joint venture disputes and dissolutions; broker disputes; disputes between private equity firms and major bank; wide variety of business contract and licensing disputes; lender liability actions
Class Action & Mass Tort
Institutional lender-borrower class actions; high value DRAM anti-trust claims involving private and governmental plaintiffs; class certification issues; federal securities and common law fraud; multiple carrier insurance coverage issues in class action resolutions; big pharma securities fraud class; consumer products and consumer fraud class actions; financial entities and fraudulent reporting; consumer class actions involving statutory penalties that would potentially bankrupt company
Employment Law
Sexual discrimination cases; statutory wage and benefits class actions; employee and customer raiding; employee and company trade secret issues; founder and executive employment termination
Entertainment & Sports
Disputes between artists and distributors over music rights; film property and publishing royalty disputes; file-sharing (“peer to peer”) copyright actions; pre-filing resolution in production and talent matters; defamation involving high profile individuals; “idea theft;” misappropriation and production disputes; distribution rights disputes; arbitrations of rights between motion picture co-producers; rights of publicity; major boxing promotion disputes; sports merchandising disputes; arbitration of rights involving film distribution; copyright termination matters
Environmental Law
Resolution of actions involving environmental activist organization plaintiffs; private action toxic pollution claims; water bank disputes involving countries and private owners; resolution of environmental remediation claims requiring complex long-term settlement structure; multinational disputes in extractive industries; environmental cases involving indigenous populations; California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) challenges; actions relating to county implementation of general plan and EIR
Insurance Coverage
Numerous cases on inconsistencies/differences in policy language between layers of insurance coverage; coverage issues in IP cases; coverage dispute involving broker malpractice allegations; insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes
Intellectual Property
High tech, software and hardware, patent and copyright infringement; trademark infringement claims by multinational companies; patent and licensing disputes; patent infringement involving data privacy and encryption; fashion design misappropriation; secondary liability in online copyright infringement; video game licensing dispute; copyright termination issues; Fair Use; university/researcher IP and patent ownership issues; joint venture IP ownership disputes
International & Cross-Border
Complex disputes in business commercial, intellectual property, and environmental disputes between business partners, local communities, indigenous populations and quasi-governmental bodies; experience in Africa, Europe, Central Europe, and Central Asia
Nonprofit/Education
Alleged discrimination in public school system; dispute between nonprofits over donors; nonprofits’ mergers; issues between founder of charity and non-profit board; facilitation of board and constituent issues for nonprofits; disputes between major private universities and foundations; disputes between public universities and pension fund fiduciary
Personal Injury
Successfully mediated a variety of disputes including wrongful death, medical malpractice, emotional distress, defamation and trade libel matters; cases involving long-term health effects resulting from severe personal injury
Professional Liability
Accounting negligence in bet-the-company litigation; attorney malpractice in complex IP rights matters; attorney negligence in large damages actions
Securities
Acquisition of company and stock trade resolution; cases with a variety of stock-drop Dura class action analyses; restatement, securities fraud and/or §11 cases at different stages of litigation; control person liability; resolution of derivative actions involving governance and fee/cost negotiations; settlement of China reverse-merger actions; mortgage-backed securities litigation; multiple securities class actions
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS.
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London
Fulbright Fellow, Paris, France; Legal Scholar in comparative law
Selected Member, The Masters Forum of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University
Certified by United Nations in Civilian Personnel of Peace-Keeping, Mediators and Election Monitoring at International Faculty of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, (Advanced Studies in Human Rights and Conflict Management), Pisa, Italy
Panelist, AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association) ADR Neutral Registry
Panelist, Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services, San Francisco
Panelist, Bar Association of San Francisco, Qualified Mediator Panel and Trainer of Mediators
Member, American Bar Association – Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution Sections
Member, California Bar Association – Intellectual Property, Litigation, Dispute Resolution, and International Law sections
Member, San Francisco Intellectual Property Association; Women’s Intellectual Property Law Association
Visiting Professor, University of California Berkeley, American University School of Law, Yerevan, Armenia; University of Paris V Faculty of Law, France; Indonesian State University at Denpasar Law Facility, Intellectual Property, Civil Law, Comparative Law, Dispute Resolution, Media Law and Legal Theory
Member, Boards of Directors: Heart-to-Heart International Children’s Medical Alliance; Founding Board of the Edible Schoolyard, Berkeley, CA; Trustee: Presidio Graduate School, San Francisco, CA
Background and Education
Founding Partner, Creative Industry Law, San Francisco
Coudert Brothers LLP, 2002-2004
Hasse Molesky LLP 1987-2002
Steinhart & Falconer LLP, 1984-1986
Heller Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP, 1982-1984
J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law (formerly Boalt Hall School of Law), 1982
M.A., Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 1982
B.A., magna cum laude, Wesleyan University, Highest Honors in Linguistics, 1977
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Counsel Comments
"Thank you for recommending Liz Hasse a few months ago. Last week, we mediated with her…and reached a settlement. Liz did a good job, and impressed the client."
–Bay Area IP Litigator
"Thank you again Liz – we very much appreciate your guidance and persistence yesterday. I will make sure others in our firm know your outstanding mediation skills."
–Partner, Nationwide Law Firm
"From my perspective, you handled this brilliantly. [Client] told me the same. You were dealing with a really weird situation and a group with mixed (to put it mildly) ranges of experience. That you were able to come up with the idea for an unusual resolution structure, and then sell everyone in the group on it, was amazing [...] [Client] was extremely impressed by you and said he would use you again in a heartbeat."
–Major Class Action Attorney, Nationwide Firm Representing Plaintiffs and Defendants
“Thank you Liz. As I mentioned, your preparation and your personal persistence and patience in assisting us get to a resolution…was much appreciated. Thank you again for your efforts.”
–Partner, International Law Firm
“I think all the credit goes to Liz on this one. Without her amazing efforts this would not have happened.”
–International Human Rights Attorney
“Thank you for your work on this case and for your thoughtful handling of my client. I hope to work with you again in the future.”
–Bay Area Attorney
“[Ms. Hasse’s] guidance during the mediation was extremely helpful… look forward to working with [her] again.”
- Partner, International Law Firm
“Signed, sealed, and delivered. You're my hero, Liz. Can't thank you enough for your hard work on this.”
– Partner, Bi-coastal Litigation Firm
“I wanted to let you know that, with your assistance, we reached an agreement in principle to settle… Your help was invaluable. Thank you very much.”
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Counsel Comments
–Partner, Nationwide Law Firm
–Major Class Action Attorney, Nationwide Firm Representing Plaintiffs and Defendants
“Thank you Liz. As I mentioned, your preparation and your personal persistence and patience in assisting us get to a resolution…was much appreciated. Thank you again for your efforts.”
–Partner, International Law Firm
“I think all the credit goes to Liz on this one. Without her amazing efforts this would not have happened.”
–International Human Rights Attorney
“Thank you for your work on this case and for your thoughtful handling of my client. I hope to work with you again in the future.”
–Bay Area Attorney
“[Ms. Hasse’s] guidance during the mediation was extremely helpful… look forward to working with [her] again.”
- Partner, International Law Firm
“Signed, sealed, and delivered. You're my hero, Liz. Can't thank you enough for your hard work on this.”
– Partner, Bi-coastal Litigation Firm
“I wanted to let you know that, with your assistance, we reached an agreement in principle to settle… Your help was invaluable. Thank you very much.”
–New York City Attorney