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Practice Experience
"Buck" Farmer heads the firm's business litigation and white collar criminal defense practice. He brings over 20 years of antitrust and complex criminal trial experience with the U.S. Department of Justice to his representation of the firm's clients in a wide range of business disputes, including antitrust litigation, government investigations and prosecutions of antitrust, securities and other matters, trade secret and intellectual property matters, contract claims and disputes, and other general business, securities and real estate disputes. He has represented numerous executives as separate counsel in connection with government antitrust and securities investigations and in other federal and state white-collar criminal matters. He also conducts and leads internal corporate investigations of questioned conduct by executives in securities, antitrust and suspected corporate fraud matters.
Admitted
1966, Texas
1970, California
Education
Princeton University (A.B., 1963)
University of Texas (J.D., 1966)
Author
"Developing a Criminal Antitrust Case," Problems of Horizontal Arrangements, Practicing Law Institute, 1981
"Representation of Business Executives and Corporations in Federal Grand Jury Investigations," Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, 1983
"Trial of an Antitrust Case," 46 Antitrust Law Journal 10. Faculty, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1989
Instructor
Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, Washington, D.C.
Faculty, Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy, Hastings College of the Law, University of California
Faculty, Federal Practice Program of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Biography
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Special Prosecutions Unit, U.S. Attorney's Office, San Francisco, CA, 1979-1986. Assistant Chief, 1973-1979 and Trial Attorney, 1969-1973, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, San Francisco Office. Trial Attorney, Merger Division, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, 1966-1969
Member
State Bar of California (Member, Section on Litigation)
American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Antitrust; Criminal Justice; Litigation)
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