Victoria A. Cundiff is a partner at Paul Hastings resident in New York, where she is a leader of the Firm’s nationally ranked global trade secrets litigation practice. She works with clients in a variety of industries including technology, software, media, financial services, insurance, pharmaceutical, e-commerce, manufacturing and sales and distribution organizations. She has tried trade secrets and related commercial and intellectual property disputes throughout the United States and before a variety of arbitration and mediation tribunals. As important is her work to help organizations avoid litigation. She has designed contracts, training programs, and confidential verification protocols for investigating and resolving intellectual property use and ownership disputes in and outside court.

Ms. Cundiff writes and speaks frequently on intellectual property issues. She particularly enjoys sharing her experience with students. She is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches intellectual property law, and at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Virginia Law School, where she teaches trade secrets law, and has spoken at WIPO’s summer school for lawyers, professionals and officials from around the world.

Ms. Cundiff is the Vice Chair of the Sedona Conference Trade Secrets Working Group and has served as the Vice Chair of the IPO’s Committee on Trade Secrets and Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Section. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America; Chambers; Legal 500 (which has named her to its “Hall of Fame” nationally in Trade Secrets law); and New York Super Lawyers, among other directories. She is on the Board of the United States Senate Youth Program Alumni Association and on the Advisory Board of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Asia IP & Technology Program. She is a member of the American Law Institute (Adviser, Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws). She provides legal services to Open Style Lab, a 501(c)(3) organization committed to making style accessible for everyone, regardless of their cognitive and physical abilities, and has served on the Board of the York Theatre Company, a 501(c)(3) organization based in Manhattan that is devoted to developing new musicals and talent and rediscovering prior gems.