Victoria A. Cundiff is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches trade secrets law. She recently retired as a partner at Paul Hastings with more than 40 years experience in intellectual property and trade secret law. She has helped clients in a variety of fields, including software, the Internet of Things, media, financial services, insurance, medical devices, pharmaceutical, chemical, consumer goods, marketing, and sales and distribution organizations, protect, and maximize value from intellectual property. She has tried intellectual property and related commercial disputes throughout the United States and before a variety of arbitration and mediation tribunals, and coordinated on such disputes internationally. As important is her ongoing work to help organizations avoid litigation.

Ms. Cundiff currently serves as Chair of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Trade Secrets Law and co-chair of the group’s Equitable Relief Drafting Team and has served as the Vice Chair of the IPO’s trade secrets committee. Ms. Cundiff is a Member of the American Law Institute, serving as an Adviser on the Restatement, Third, Conflict of Laws. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Section and is the past Chair of that section. She has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America; Chambers; Legal 500; New York Super Lawyers; and World IP Review among other lawyer directories and guides according to their published criteria and is noted for her role as a “master strategist.” She writes and speaks frequently in the intellectual property community.

Ms. Cundiff received her B.A. degree from the University of Denver, where she was a Boettcher Foundation Scholar, and received her J.D. degree from Yale Law School. She is on the Advisory Board of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. She serves on the Board of the United States Senate Youth Program Alumni Association: is an advisor to Open Style Lab, committed to providing inclusive design for people of all abilities; and has served on the Board of the York Theatre Company in New York.