Los Angeles). In 1992 Milgrim and his firm's intellectual property group joined the New York office of the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, a prominent international law firm, where he served as a senior partner and held such positions as the head of the firm's intellectual property group and the firm's litigation department. In addition to practice, Milgrim taught trade secret and intellectual property law at NYU School of Law for over two decades, and has also lectured at law schools including Columbia, Fordham, Houston, Kansas, Loyola (Chicago), University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Texas and Yale. He has been a principal speaker before many bar associations, including those of California, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Texas. He was one of four speakers at the Tokyo Press Club where the then new Japanese Unfair Competition Prevention Law was discussed before an audience of Japanese executives and lawyers; the other three speakers were the heads of the Japanese and U.S. patent offices and a professor from the Max Planck Institute (Japanese law is based on the German Civil Code). Milgrim was the first Dean's Distinguished Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania, which lecture, the following year, was given by Cass Sunstein, professor of law (then at the University of Chicago) and who served as an Advisor to the Obama White House for Information and Regulatory Affairs, advising president Barack Obama. Milgrim has also lectured to numerous legal departments, including AT&T, Eastman Kodak, Exxon, PPG, Procter & Gamble and United Technologies. In addition to an active transactional and litigation practice, he has acted as a lawyer's lawyer, serving as an expert witness in the field of trade secret and intellectual property licensing practices in over 50 litigations and domestic and international arbitrations, having been retained by a wide variety of law firms including Baker Botts, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Dechert, Gibson, Dunn, Hogan & Hartson, Keker & Van Nest, Kenyon & Kenyon, King & Spalding, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Morrison & Foerster, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Paul Hastings, Quinn Emanuel, Skadden Arps, Sullivan & Cromwell, White & Case, and Wilson Sonsini. Milgrim has served on the boards of directors of Technip (a Paris-based NYSE-Euronext major international engineering firm, which is one of the CAC 40 public companies, the French equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average), Coflexip-Stenna, and on the boards of not