Thelen LLP

Mr. Pringle's practice includes antitrust, unfair competition, securities and complex business litigation before federal and state courts in the United States and administrative tribunals. In addition, he has been active in criminal grand jury matters, contested mergers, and a variety of civil litigation including trade secrets and other intellectual property claims, contract disputes, fraud and RICO claims. He has also acted as counsel to corporate boards of directors and as special litigation counsel to corporate boards of directors in shareholder derivative actions. Mr. Pringle is currently firmwide head of the Antitrust/Competition practice and participates in the oversight of the firm's Commercial Litigation Department.

Mr. Pringle has been called upon to act as counsel for a number of Fortune 200 and Global 500 companies, both in the United States and abroad. Recent matters have included lead counsel in a worldwide cartel criminal investigation and follow-on class action litigation, lead counsel in a securities class action litigation, special litigation counsel to the board of directors of a major software company, lead counsel in the defense of litigation brought by the Attorney General of California against a major utility under Section 7 of the Clayton Act, representation of a major supermarket chain in defense of a litigation brought by the Attorney General of California arising out of the acquisition of generation assets in California, representation of a large supermarket chain in an antitrust action brought by the Attorney General of California arising out of a lengthy labor dispute between the major supermarket chains and their labor unions in the Los Angeles area, and representation of a party relating to the Enron grand jury matters.

Dynamic Random Memory Antitrust Litigation (San Francisco, CA and throughout the United States)

Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation (San Diego, CA)

State of California, et al. v. Safeway, Inc., et al. (San Francisco, CA )

State of California v. Mirant (San Francisco, CA)

Rosenbaum v. Sharper Image (San Francisco, CA)

Electrical Carbon Antitrust Litigation (San Francisco, CA )

California Pharmaceutical Antitrust Litigation (San Francisco, CA)

Cellular Telephone Antitrust Litigation (San Francisco, CA)

Dual Deck VCR Antitrust Litigation (MDL, Phoenix, AZ)

Micron Technology Antitrust Litigation (MDL, Boise, Idaho)

Litton Systems, Inc. v. Ssangyong Cement Industrial Co. Ltd., et al. (San Francisco, CA)

Data General Antitrust Litigation (San Francisco, CA)

Duke University School of Law (J.D., 1969)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.S., 1966)

California
Pennsylvania

Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits

State Bar of California, Unfair Competition and Antitrust Section (Member, Executive Committee2001-2003; Member, Board of Advisors, 2003 - Present)

American Bar Association, Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law (Chair, Antitrust Committee); Antitrust Section (Member, Civil Practice and Procedure Committee; Chair, 1992 Annual Meeting); Litigation Section (Past Chair of Various Committees; Chair, 1992 Annual Meeting)

Chair, Standing Committee on Professional Conduct, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Member, 1991-1995; Chair, 1995 - Present)

Bar Association of the City and County of San Francisco

Board of Visitors (Lifetime Member), Duke University School of Law

Best Lawyers in the United States

Who's Who in America

Who's Who in American Law

Chambers, USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers (2008 Leading Antitrust Lawyer in California)

Super Lawyer (San Francisco Magazine)

Co-Author of Program Materials and Panelist in the Following Recent Programs:State Bar of California Golden State Antitrust and Trade Regulation Institute, San Francisco, California

State Bar of California Golden State Antitrust and Trade Regulation Institute, Los Angeles, California, "Intellectual Property and Antitrust: Litigation of Antitrust Cases Involving Intellectual Property"

Conference Board Annual Antitrust Program, New York City: "Litigation Complex Antitrust Litigations and the Recent Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure"

Price Waterhouse Annual Intellectual Property Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, "Antitrust and Intellectual Property in the 1990s"

"High Tech or Low Tech - Presentation of Complex Evidence to a Jury, ABA Annual Meeting (San Francisco)

"Technology and the Business Litigator," State Bar Section Institute (Monterey, CA)

Prentice Hall Annual Intellectual Property Conference, San Francisco, CA, "Cross Examination of a Technical Expert in a Patent Litigation"

"The 100 Days After Receipt of the Complaint, The 100 Days Before Trial" (ABA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA)

"The Use of Experts at Trial in High Technology Cases" (ABA Litigation Section Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA)

"Technology Licensing and Litigation" (PLI - San Francisco, CA)

"Contesting Computer Disputes" (Harcourt Brace - Washington, D.C.)

"The Use of Experts at Trial" ( ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL )

"Cooperative Network Agreements for Banks and Thrifts" (Law & Business - Washington, D.C.)

Co-Author, Report of Working Group to the President and Board of Governors of the American Bar Association

Co-Author: "Antitrust Discovery Handbook" (ABA Antitrust Section)

"Antitrust Evidence Handbook" (ABA Antitrust Section)"Report of the American Bar Association Antitrust Task force to the Senate Judiciary Committee" (ABA Antitrust Section)