{"id":7188,"date":"2008-10-15T23:28:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T23:28:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:44:09","slug":"prop-8-marriage-discrimination-has-a-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/prop-8-marriage-discrimination-has-a-law-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 8: Marriage Discrimination has a law firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, I was a patent attorney. Yup, I sat in an office and wrote uber-fun stuff.  Good times really.  The firm that I worked for was based in Orange County, and is now the largest law firm in Orange County, Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Why do I tell you about this on a political blog? Well, it’s not because I’m just getting some kicks about talking about my background, rather it’s because Knobbe attorneys<\/a> also happen to be the largest donor of funds of any of the 200 largest law firms (as judged by the AmLaw 200).<\/p>\n

While other major companies, like Google<\/a>, Levi Strauss and PG&E<\/a> are taking stands for equality, Knobbe  Martens<\/a> is taking a stand for writing discrimination into our state constitution, and for affirmatively limiting the rights of a minority.<\/p>\n

I should point out that many of the attorneys that I worked with at Knobbe<\/a> were phenomenal people.  Extremely friendly and all that.  And, as far as I can tell, nobody from the San Francisco office has given any money to the Yes on 8 campaign, the money seems to come only from the mothership in Orange County and the smaller San Diego office.<\/p>\n

However, the firm does have a sizable group of Mormon attorneys who are dedicated to ending my marriage, and thousands of lifelong commitments like mine.  Dedicated to the tune of over $25,000 in the third quarter alone.  You can find a chart of third quarter to Yes on 8 from Knobbe Martens attorneys here<\/a>.  I’ve not taken the time to include spouses, but I did see a couple of them in the list. Further, it is possible I missed a few donations due to misspellings in the firm name on the Form 460.<\/p>\n

So, if you are looking for an intellectual property attorney who shares your values of equality for all, I’d keep walking right past the Knobbe Martens<\/a> offices in San Diego and Orange County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, I was a patent attorney. Yup, I sat in an office and wrote uber-fun stuff.  Good times really.  The firm that I worked for was based in Orange County, and is now the largest law firm in Orange County, Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Why do I tell you about this on a political blog? Well, it’s not because I’m just getting some kicks about talking about my background, rather it’s because Knobbe attorneys<\/a> also happen to be the largest donor of funds of any of the 200 largest law firms (as judged by the AmLaw 200).<\/p>\n

While other major companies, like Google<\/a>, Levi Strauss and PG&E<\/a> are taking stands for equality, Knobbe  Martens<\/a> is taking a stand for writing discrimination into our state constitution, and for affirmatively limiting the rights of a minority.<\/p>\n

I should point out that many of the attorneys that I worked with at Knobbe<\/a> were phenomenal people.  Extremely friendly and all that.  And, as far as I can tell, nobody from the San Francisco office has given any money to the Yes on 8 campaign, the money seems to come only from the mothership in Orange County and the smaller San Diego office.<\/p>\n

However, the firm does have a sizable group of Mormon attorneys who are dedicated to ending my marriage, and thousands of lifelong commitments like mine.  Dedicated to the tune of over $25,000 in the third quarter alone.  You can find a chart of third quarter to Yes on 8 from Knobbe Martens attorneys here<\/a>.  I’ve not taken the time to include spouses, but I did see a couple of them in the list. Further, it is possible I missed a few donations due to misspellings in the firm name on the Form 460.<\/p>\n

So, if you are looking for an intellectual property attorney who shares your values of equality for all, I’d keep walking right past the Knobbe Martens<\/a> offices in San Diego and Orange County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1608],"tags":[6270,6269,558,5576],"class_list":["post-7188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1608","tag-6270","tag-6269","tag-558","tag-5576"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-1RW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}