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B.A. Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley, and Mills College, lifetime member of the National Honor Society; J.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Received the Leon Feingold Memorial Award, and took third place in the Robert P. Wagner National Moot Court Competition.
Upon graduation from law school Ms. Klotz served as a law clerk to the Hon. Gabrielle K. MacDonald, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Following her judicial clerkship she specialized in complex business litigation at Pillsbury Madison and Sutro in San Francisco, California, where she specialized in antitrust litigation and other complex business law matters. She subsequently focused her area of interest on intellectual property issues as an associate at Donahue, Gallagher, Thomas and Woods in Oakland, California, where she was responsible for obtaining the first search-and-seizure order on software piracy matters in California legal history. Later, as corporate counsel for Amdahl Corporation, she was responsible for all software issues pertaining to sales to Fortune 500 companies, as well as strategic alliance agreements, on a worldwide level.
More recently, she served as corporate counsel for Microsoft Corporation, where she was in charge of all legal issues concerning the company’s U.S. Field Sales offices, technical support operations, educational account sales, and matters involving enterprise customers (including strategic partnerships). She has also served as Associate General Counsel at Wall Data Inc., where she was responsible for all software, intellectual property, export and sales issues for the company on a worldwide basis.
As a professor at UW, she taught (and still teaches) the first intellectual property law class of its kind in the U.S., to business school graduate students of the Program in Entrepreneurship. She currently teaches additional classes in general business law issues to undergraduate, graduate, and executive M.B.A students at the University of Washington, and other classes in intellectual property license agreements and intellectual property audits to students at Seattle University Law School. In addition, she has an extensive background in employment issues, and has served as a law clerk for the Appellate Court Branch of the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Washington, California and District of Columbia bar associations, and a member of sections on intellectual property, international law, business law and federal practice. Ms. Klotz's private practice focuses on counseling startup companies on all the myriad legal issues pertinent to their business concerns. She has lectured to a wide variety of domestic and international audiences on intellectual property issues, including the World Affairs Council.