Sasha Rao
Maynard Cooper & Gale
“I love the fierce determination and focus of the ERA legal team as they stand up for women at work and school in their fight to overcome gender discrimination and harassment and achieve their goals.”
Sasha Rao is Chair of Maynard Cooper & Gale’s nationwide Intellectual Property Practice, which includes an experienced team of IP lawyers and professionals located in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Huntsville, and Birmingham. She is a seasoned intellectual property lawyer with an established record of success for some of the world’s leading companies.
Sasha regularly leads intellectual property and commercial litigation for her clients, including cases involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, and complex commercial disputes. She also advises clients on corporate, transactional, policy and regulatory matters, including IP aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Sasha’s enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies has led to her being recognized as one of the leading practitioners in the emerging field of autonomy and robotics systems, including autonomous vehicles, drones, and UAVs, urban air mobility, and connected and artificially intelligent systems.
Sasha received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Randolph Macon Woman’s College.
