Julie Turner
Pro Bono Lawyer for WikiLeaks
Host: Basima Farhat
Previously Aired On: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 – Listen to the Show!
Since 1997, Julie Turner has been representing both plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. She has litigated numerous patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases involving a wide range of electronics, software, and pharmaceutical technologies. She has also represented clients in antitrust, defamation, contract and business tort cases. Ms. Turner has significant trial experience, having first-chaired multiple trials without a defeat.
Ms. Turner received her J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. She graduated in the top 10% of her law school class and is a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Ms. Turner was a member of the High Technology Law Review and the California Law Review, where she served on the executive committee. Ms. Turner also received the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law and the Jurisprudence Award in Patent Law.
In an NPR interview, Julie said this about WikiLeaks: “It’s time to stop kicking WikiLeaks around and start looking at what it is that’s been disclosed. In a democratic society, we need the Fourth Estate to keep the citizenry so we can actually be intelligent in running our democracy.”
