William N. Hebert

William N. Hebert

William N. Hebert is a partner in the San Francisco office of Calvo & Clark. Mr. Hebert represents clients in business litigation, including class action defense, business torts (such as antitrust, trade secret litigation, and interference with economic advantage), patent and trademark infringement, false advertising and California’s Unfair Competition Law. He has tried a dozen cases in state and federal court, and has litigated numerous arbitrations, including hearings before the National Association of Securities Dealers and the American Arbitration Association.

Mr. Hebert is currently a member of the California State Bar Board of Governors. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Legal Aid Society and of the Board of Trustees of Prospect Sierra School. Mr. Hebert is a panel mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Mr. Hebert is a frequent speaker on business torts and unfair competition. He received his J.D. for the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1988 and an A.B. from Stanford University in 1983 (with distinction).

Selected Articles

  • Patents and Antitrust: Application to Adjacent Markets, Nicholas Economides and William Hebert, Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law (U. Colo. School of Law, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, 2008).
  • Joint Defense Agreements and the Common Interest Doctrine, CEB Program Materials on Complex Litigation (San Francisco, August 17, 2007).
  • Proposition 64: Fashionably Retro, California Civil Litigation Reporter (Vol. 28 No. 4) (CEB August 2006).
  • Unfair Competition Law Update: A Look at 2005, California Civil Litigation Reporter (Vol. 28, No. 2) (CEB April 2006)
  • Washington Mutual v. Superior Court: Defendants’ Victory? California Civil Litigation Reporter (Vol. 23, No. 2) (CEB March 2001)
  • Fair-use defense applies in aftermarket situations, The National Law Journal, May 1, 2000.
  • Asserting Intellectual Property Rights in Monopoly Leveraging Antitrust Cases: Business Justification or Pretext? Competition: The Journal of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the State Bar of California (Vol. 8, No. 1 – Spring 1999).
  • The Current State of Classwide Arbitration in California, California Litigation Magazine (Vol. 12, No. 3) (1999).