Member Profiles

John Genga is the founding partner of Genga & Associates. His expertise includes copyright infringement and misappropriation of ideas in motion pictures, television, electronic entertainment, publishing and advertising, exploitation of individuals’ names and likenesses, disputes arising from corporate activities and business transactions, trade secrets and unfair competition in both traditional and emerging industries, talent and other contract disputes in the entertainment industry, etc. John has successfully resolved hundreds of such matters, often by preliminary injunction or summary judgment, for individual and institutional clients and on both the defense and enforcement side. He also devotes a significant part of his practice to alternative dispute resolution and to counseling clients on avoiding or reducing the risk of litigation. Career History Before forming Genga & Associates in May 2004, John was a litigation partner for four years in the Los Angeles office of the international firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. There, he served as chair of the firm’s entertainment practice group, as a member of its intellectual property group, and on the hiring committee in the Los Angeles office. Before that, John practiced entertainment, intellectual property and general business litigation at L.A.’s Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey, LLP (originally known as Hill Wynne Troop & Meisinger)for 12 years. He became partner at that firm as of January 1, 1994, and hiring partner in 1998. In his first two years of practice, John was an associate in the Los Angeles office of the now-international firm Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. John Genga is a member of the Litigation, Entertainment and Intellectual Property Sections of the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice in California, all United States District Courts in California, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor’s in English from Stanford University in 1983. He speaks regularly to bar and industry groups and to clients, and writes frequently on copyright and other entertainment, intellectual property and litigation topics. He is a regular contributor to the monthly entertainment law column of the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

For 38 years Clifford B. Cohn has maintained a successful and varied practice handling complex civil and criminal cases and an impressive track record of victories and achieving large financial settlements from the successful prosecution of a variety of matters including estate litigation, will contests, personal injury matters for persons who have suffered serious and catastrophic injuries and wrongful death, commercial litigation and criminal cases. For the last 20 years Mr. Cohn has devoted a substantial amount of time to legal malpractice cases successfully representing clients against their former lawyers, lawyers being sued, and as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases.

As a partner at Haug Partners, Angus Chen draws on his legal and scientific background to strategically navigate the dynamic area at the intersection of law and science. Motivated by the desire to have a real life impact on people and their health, Dr. Chen’s practice also benefits from his prior experience as in-house Patent Counsel for a specialty pharmaceutical company, which has provided him with the ability to effectively integrate clients’ interests and a business perspective into his practice. Dr. Chen’s work at Haug Partners focuses on intellectual property litigation, counseling, opinion and agreement work. He specializes in the pharmaceutical patent and regulatory laws under the Hatch-Waxman Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act. Dr. Chen has extensive experience with both brand and generic pharmaceuticals, including with respect to patent and regulatory strategies, lifecycle management, and settlement agreements.

Bruce H. Raymond has served as lead counsel in more than 1000 litigated cases in over 20 years of trial practice in state and federal courts in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Named as one of The Best and Brightest Business Attorneys (Hartford Magazine 2010) Attorney Raymond regularly represents companies in litigation. He earned his CIPP/US credential (Certified Information and Privacy Professional ) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals - IAPP. In addition to representing clients in data loss litigation, Bruce has been privileged to speak on the topic of data breach and privacy law on several state and national professional seminars including a recent panel with the Connecticut’s lead data breach enforcement officer. In 2013, Bruce appeared on the local NBC affiliate along with Attorney General George Jepsen in a feature story about how businesses should address customer privacy. His experience includes cyber liability, data breach, privacy law, professional liability, business litigation, products liability, toxic torts including asbestos, and intellectual property matters. He has litigated personal injury insurance defense cases including trucking, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, liquor liability E&O, and D&O matters. Attorney Raymond represented Deere & Company in its successful appeal addressing the malfunction theory in products liability cases. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Ins. Co. v. Deere & Co., 302 Conn. 123, 125, 25 A.3d 571 (2011). 302 Conn. 123, 125, 25 A.3d 571 (2011).