Stephen L. Pessagno
Associate
Practice focuses on civil litigation with emphasis on foodborne illness, product liability, commercial litigation, catastrophic injury, and construction litigation.
Professional Activities and Honors
- Judicial Intern for the Honorable R. Marc Kantrowitz, Massachusetts Court of Appeals
Admissions to Practice
- State Bar of California
Education
- B.S., cum laude, Santa Clara University, 2008
- B.A., cum laude, Santa Clara University, 2008
- J.D., Boston University School of Law, 2011; Articles Editor, American Journal of Law & Medicine; Boston University Director for ABA Negotiation and Client Counseling Competitions
Publications
- Co-author, “In-House Counsel and the Privilege Problem” (Atl. Bar Ass’n March 1, 2012).
- Prometheus and Bilski: Pushing the Bounds of Patentable Subject Matter in Medical Diagnostic Techniques with the Machine-or-Transformation Test, 36 Am. J.L. & Med. 619 (2010).
- San Francisco Health Care Ordinance Withstands ERISA Preemption Challenge - Golden Gate Rest Ass’n v. City & County of S.F., 35 Am. J.L. & Med. 696 (2009).