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Top Women Lawyers

May 9, 2012

Lynne C. Hermle

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Menlo Park Practice type: litigation


When it comes to trials, Hermle is a problem solver, which is why her clients come to her, she said.


"I think about how to kill off a meritless case without going through three years of disruptive discovery," she said.


That's the kind of attitude she brought to representing computer security company McAfee Inc. when it was sued in 2009 by its former general counsel, Kent H. Roberts, who claimed the company made him a scapegoat in a stock o...

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