Joel Muchmore is a partner in the San Francisco office of Crowell & Moring, where he is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Intellectual Property groups. Joel has substantial experience with appellate issues, as a trial attorney, and in litigating patent infringement, licensing disputes, trademark, trade secret, copyright, unfair competition, and other complex commercial disputes. Joel represents clients in multiple industries, including entertainment, high-tech, software, hardware, consumer goods, the arts, and retail.
Joel is a trial and appellate lawyer who has represented clients in courts across the country. Joel’s clients have included software developers, life sciences companies, computer technology manufacturers, Grammy-award winning musicians, Fortune 500 consumer products companies, electronics retailers, and art galleries. A trusted counsel to a diverse array of companies across multiple industries, Joel works unusually hard to understand the complex machinations of the businesses he represents in order to deliver the highest caliber and most passionate legal representation. In his appellate practice, Joel has represented clients with regard to writs and appeals on a wide array of issues, including complex constitutional and procedural questions, and has successfully obtained reversals of final orders, as well as successfully defended against appeals. Joel strives to develop cost-effective fee arrangements and strategies to successfully resolve disputes on behalf of his clients.
Joel’s practice also includes representing licensees in major disputes with enterprise database licensors, including serving as counsel of record for Mars, Inc. against Oracle Corporation in the only publicly filed complaint against that software giant regarding its audit tactics and conduct.
Joel is active in the Bar Association of San Francisco and the American Bar Association. In addition to his professional legal activities, Joel is a committed mentor to young associates and a supporter of law school moot court programs. During law school, Joel was a member of the Hastings Academic Support Program as a Discussion Group Leader (Contracts and Criminal law), as well as a moot court coach.
In his spare time, Joel enjoys spending time with his family, long-distance running, writing fiction and non-fiction, and playing music in local San Francisco bands.
