Biography

Mr. Milligan is a partner in the Litigation and Labor & Employment Departments of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.  His practice encompasses a wide variety of commercial litigation and employment matters, including general business disputes, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation and other intellectual property theft, franchise litigation, real estate litigation, insurance bad faith, invasion of privacy, consumer and employee class actions, products liability, wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment claims, wage and hour disputes, ADA and OSHA compliance, whistleblower cases, bankruptcy, and other business torts.

Mr. Milligan has represented clients in state and federal courts in complex commercial litigation and employment litigation.  His experience includes trials, binding arbitrations and administrative hearings, mediations, as well as appellate proceedings.  Mr. Milligan also provides advice to clients concerning a variety of business and employment matters, including non-disclosure, non-competition, and invention assignment agreements, corporate espionage, trade secret and intellectual property audits, commercial landlord/tenant disputes, ADA and OSHA compliance, and an assortment of franchise and bankruptcy issues.

He served as a judicial extern for the Superior Court of Yolo County, Civil Law Division and the Honorable Christopher M. Klein of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of California. 

Mr. Milligan was selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star in 2009 in Intellectual Property.  He also served as a contributing editor of Trade Secret Litigation and Protection in California and is an author of chapters in Continuing Education of the Bar’s Trade Secrets Practice in California.

Mr. Milligan was selected as a member of the State Bar of California Intellectual Property Law Section Executive Committee.

Education

J.D., University of California, Davis (2001)

Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Participant
Executive Editor, University of California Davis Law Review
Public Interest Scholar

B.A., Gonzaga University, summa cum laude (1997)

Alpha Sigma Nu
Phi Alpha Theta

Certificate of Achievement in Lean Six Sigma, Villanova University (2009)

Admissions

• California

Courts

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California