Maria Radwick, an associate with Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, represents both individual and institutional clients in appellate and trial litigation. Her experience encompasses diverse practice areas, including intellectual property, employment, contract, governmental law, and class actions.

Maria has played a critical role representing clients at both the trial court and appellate levels.  Recently, Maria was part of the trial team which successfully defended a client against a $15 million claim in a state jury trial.  Maria took expert depositions and took primary responsibility for drafting pre-trial and trial motions. Maria has prevailed in numerous dispositive motions, for example, a summary adjudication on oral contract and promissory estoppel claims on behalf of an heir of a real property estate in a lawsuit filed by her former husband for a share of the estate.  She is currently representing a patentholder in infringement litigation against eight computer hardware and telecommunications defendants in the Eastern District of Texas.  Maria has argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Court of Appeal.  Her appellate experience includes substantial responsibility for drafting the appellate briefs in Wilson & Wilson v. City Council of Redwood City, Case No. A123480 (successfully obtaining a complete reversal of a judgment against Redwood City), Lopez v. Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc., Cal. Ct. of Appeal, Case No. A119263 (successfully protecting a large jury verdict for plaintiff in a pregnancy discrimination case) and Kuo v. Sun, Cal. Ct. of Appeal, Case No. H031575 (prevailing on behalf of defendant in a breach of fiduciary duty and misrepresentation case).

Maria graduated with a B.A. degree in Political Science from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bulgaria in 2002.  In 2007, she received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.  While at Hastings, Maria worked as a Research Assistant for the Hastings Legal Writing, Research and Moot Court Department and also worked as a Semester Extern for the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program.  During law school, Maria also served as an Executive Editor for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.  Maria worked for Kerr & Wagstaffe as a Summer Associate in 2006.

Maria is admitted to practice in all California state courts, the Federal Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and the Federal District Courts for the Northern, Central and Eastern District of California, and the Eastern District of Texas.  Maria is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Published or Westlaw available cases on which Maria has worked include:

• Wilson & Wilson  v. City Council of Redwood City, 191 Cal. App. 4th 1559, 2011 WL 213482 (Jan. 25, 2011)  
• Kuo-Liang Chen v. Lincoln Broadcasting Co., 2008 WL 2358875 (Cal. App. 1st. Dist.. June 11, 2008)
• Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp., 2008 WL 638108 (S.D. Cal. March 5, 2008)
• MHC Financing, Ltd. v. City of San Rafael, 2008 WL 440282 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 29, 2008)