Who We Are

Methven & Associates, the Business Law Counselors^TM, is a business-law firm.

Attorney Biographies

Bruce E. Methven

Gregory J. Wood

Michele M. Liedeker

Kenneth Priore

Bruce Methven, Owner

Practice Areas
Corporations and partnerships, leases, contracts, intellectual property, international business, real estate, litigation

• Alameda County Bar Association
• Bar Association of Los Angeles
• American Bar Association
• American Arbitration Association
• EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation
• CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• ERN Entrepreneurs Resource Network-founder and president
• Founder and Former Chair - Alameda County Bar Association,
• Intellectual Property and Computer Law Committee
• Former Chair - Intellectual Property Committee, BAMTA
• Former President - High Technology Entrepreneurial Council
• Former Director - MDG.org Multimedia Development Group, Legal Counsel
• Former Director - Junior Achievement, Legal Counsel

• Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
• BA, University of California at Berkeley
• Two years of undergraduate work at MIT

Gregory J. Wood, Of Counsel

• Admitted to the State Bar of California 1998

Practice areas
Litigation, in both state and federal courts, including but not limited to real estate and business litigation.  

• University of San Diego School of Law
• U.C. San Diego

Michele M. Liedeker, Of Counsel

• Admitted to the State Bar of California 1997

Practice areas
Corporations, LLC's, partnerships, Contracts, Insrance, Intellectual Property, International Business, Immigration

• American Immigration Lawyers Association

• Fordham University School of Law
• Princeton University
• Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Inernational Affairs

Kenneth Priore, Of Counsel

• Admitted to the State Bar of California 1996

Practice areas
Corporations, securities, corporate compliance and governance, intellectual property, venture capital, leases, contracts, and business law.

• SF Bar Association
• SVASE(Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs)
• SDForum(Software Developer's Forum)

• Tulane Law School-1995
• B.A., Tufts University-1991

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