Naomi Jane Gray has twenty years’ experience in arbitration, as an arbitrator and an advocate. Her extensive experience includes a complex international commercial arbitration between major multinational corporations in which the evidentiary hearing phase lasted three and a half years and involved over three hundred days of live testimony. Ms. Gray has managed arbitration involving claims of breach of contract, fraud, unfair competition, copyright infringement and trademark infringement.
Ms. Gray is a frequent speaker on topical issues in the areas of dispute resolution and intellectual property, having appeared at events hosted by the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, the Practising Law Institute, the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association and the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Ms. Gray is admitted to practice in the states of California and New York; the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second and Ninth Circuits; and the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Gray graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995, where she served as an editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law and the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in Government and French Studies from Smith College in 1992, where she competed at the 1992 World Debating Championships in Dublin, Ireland and the 1992 National Debating Championships in Boston, Massachusetts. She also holds a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France. She is fluent in French.