With more than 25 years of experience litigating and counseling in intellectual property, law of lawyering, and business matters, Greenberg Traurig Phoenix Litigation chair Andy Halaby helps his clients develop creative, practical, and incisive strategies to solve their toughest problems. Andy is a recognized thought leader, whose work has been cited in, among other things, treatises on intellectual property law, remedies, evidence, professional responsibility and the First Amendment, as well as in numerous scholarly articles. Alternative Business Structures, Professional Responsibility, and LawyeringBased on many years of business-oriented legal ethics counseling, Andy advises lawyers and law firms, professional service providers, and entrepreneurs on issues and opportunities arising from Arizona’s still-new Alternative Business Structure (ABS) law, including serving as lead regulatory counsel to the first ABS to be licensed in Arizona and admitted to the Utah Office of Legal Services Innovation regulatory sandbox. Andy also advises clients including inside counsel, outside counsel and law firms on professional responsibility and related matters, including discipline defense, disqualification, and lawyer liability matters. He has served on the Arizona Supreme Court's Task Force on Lawyer Ethics, Professionalism, and the Unauthorized Practice of Law and chaired the State Bar of Arizona's Conflict Case Committee.Intellectual Property and TechnologyPracticing primarily in Phoenix and Southern California, Andy has served as lead counsel in dozens of IP matters, including patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, unfair competition, cyberpiracy, copyright infringement, and deceptive advertising cases, as well as disputes involving, among other things, computer fraud and abuse, data security, data integration, search engine optimization, software development, software licensing, software conversion, and life sciences. A former professional engineer, Andy is registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.Business LitigationAndy also advises public and private clients in connection with a wide variety of business disputes including those which involve breach of contract, business tort, “business divorce,” antitrust, derivative action, class action, securities, lender liability, ERISA, False Claims Act, corporate governance, commercial real estate, trust and estate, corporate defalcation, defamation, insurance coverage, life insurance and annuity, and other complex disputes.