2015 Department of Classics Commencement Ceremony and Lunch

The department's diploma ceremony takes place after the main ceremony and includes light refreshments before the event and a sit-down lunch following the event.  If you have any questions about this upcoming event, please feel free to lorilynn [at] stanford.edu (email the Student Services Officer).

This year's commencement speaker is alumnus, Andrew Bridges.

Mr. Andrew Bridges (A.B., Greek and Latin, Stanford University, 1976) is co-chair (copyright litigation) and partner (litigation) at the San Francisco office of Fenwick & West. His global practice specializes in trial and appellate litigation, internet-related arbitration and strategic counseling, and consumer-focused companies with new business models, media, technologies, and communications platforms. He has 25 years of complex litigation experience in copyright, trademark, advertising, trade secret, consumer protection, unfair competition, licensing, and other commercial law disputes. 

Before joining Fenwick & West, Mr. Bridges received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his M.A. from University of Oxford and was a partner and Vice Chair of the firmwide Intellectual Property practice at Winston & Strawn. From 1991 to 2004, he headed the Trademarks and Advertising Practices Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In 2008 he was listed as one of the top 100 lawyers in California, and since then he has been repeatedly ranked among the top 75 or 100 IP litigators in California. Mr. Bridges also has rankings in Band 1 for Intellectual Property—Trademark, Copyright, and Trade Secrets by Chambers USA and in Band 1 for California (one of only two such individuals) and in Band 2 nationally for Trademark Litigation by World Trademark Review, to name just a few publications relating to e-commerce and intellectual property law. Mr. Bridges was also named an IP Star in Managing Intellectual Property's inaugural edition, and in 2014, The Daily Journal named Mr. Bridges as on of the "Top Intellectual Property Attorneys of 2014."

Mr. Bridges serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press); an advisory board member for the Electronic Frontier Foundation; and an active member in numerous organizations, including the Copyright Society of the USA, International Trademark Association, International Technology Law Association, Media Law Resource Center, Federal Bar Association, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He is a trustee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and a former director of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.