Ray L. Wong practices in the area of litigation with a focus on a variety of business litigation, including employment and other complex civil litigation. He has practiced for more than 29 years in courts throughout California and the United States, representing individual and corporate clients in all facets of civil litigation. Mr. Wong also has served as a mediator and arbitrator, and has testified as an expert consultant and witness in civil litigation.

Mr. Wong is a member of the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Legal Aid Society. Mr. Wong also has served on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bar Association and on the San Francisco Bar Association's Judiciary Committee, having chaired the Judiciary Committee for two years. Mr. Wong has been selected to serve as a mediation panelist in the Early Settlement Program of the San Francisco Court and the San Francisco Bar Association. He is a member of the Bay Area Asian American Bar Association and the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel.

Mr. Wong speaks extensively on a variety of litigation and law firm management issues in forums throughout the United States. He is the co-chair of the ADR/Mediation subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section. Mr. Wong will be co-vice-chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee's annual meeting in 2007 and co-chair of the 2008 meeting. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, Mr. Wong was listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. He also was listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2008 and 2009 editions, and was named one of Northern California's Super Lawyers in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Admitted to practice law in California and Idaho, Mr. Wong is a 1978 graduate of Harvard Law School and a graduate of the University of Utah, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Professional Activities

Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
Bar Association of San Francisco
- Past Chair, Judiciary Committee
American Bar Association
- Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee
--Co-Chair of Annual Meeting, 2008
--Co-Vice-Chair of Annual Meeting, 2007
Bay Area Asian American Bar Association
San Francisco Legal Aid Society
- Member, Board of Directors

Admissions

Idaho
California

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., 1978
University of Utah, B.A., 1975

Experience

Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2006-present
Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP
- Chairman, 2000-2004
- Partner, 1985-2005
- Associate, 1981-1985

Board Memberships

San Francisco Legal Aid Society

Civic and Charitable Activities

Past Senior Warden and Chancellor at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church

Honors and Awards

Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2006-2008 editions
Listed in The International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers 2008 and 2009
Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2008 and 2009
Listed in Northern California's Super Lawyers in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008

Selected Speaking Engagements

"Not Just an Ordinary Day In Court: The Insurance Coverage Jury Trial," American Bar Association Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, March 2, 2006
"Who is the Insured? Defining Policy Owner in Difficult Cases," Advanced National Forum on Environmental Insurance Coverage and Claims, New York, New York, December 5-6, 2005
"Protecting the Attorney-Client Privilege and Understanding the Risks of Internal Audits, Investigations and Disclosures," Bay Area General Counsel Group, The City Club,. San Francisco, California, November 1, 2005
"Corporate Internal Investigations/Audits and the Attorney-Client Privilege," sponsored by the Association of Corporate Counsel America (AAC-A), Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California and Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, California, June 9, 2005 and June 10, 2005
"Indemnity Provisions and Contractual Liability Coverage: The Coverage Created by an Exclusion," Mealey's Additional Insured Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 12-13, 2005
"You Owe Me Money! Getting The Other Side to Pay Your Attorneys' Fees in Coverage Disputes," Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Seminar, sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Westin La Paloma Resort, Tucson, Arizona, March 3-6, 2005
"Other People's Insurance," sponsored by the American Bar Association, San Francisco, California, March 5, 2004
Chair, "Winning Strategies in Complex Mediations," panel discussion at the American Bar Association's Spring Mega Meeting: Investing in Diversity, Investing in Ourselves, San Francisco, April 11-12, 2002