CALVIN GLADNEY graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1997 and received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1994. He is admitted to the District of Columbia and the California and New York state bars. He is currently General Counsel at BRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION, one of the nation's leading affordable housing developers. Prior to BRIDGE, he was the first Counsel and Senior Development Director of the NATIONAL CAPITAL REVITALIZATION CORPORATION (NCRC), where he provided legal advice to the CEO and was instrumental in the review, negotiation and acquisition of a $500 million portfolio of real estate assets. Prior to his tenure at NCRC, he spent the first four years of his legal career as a real estate and finance associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Los Angeles-based LATHAM & WATKINS, focusing on all aspects of transactional real estate legal work, including commercial acquisitions and sales, bond and debt financings and high-end commercial leasing. During law school, he was a summer associate at HOGAN & HARTSON LLP in Washington, D.C. and clerked at OLSHAN, GRUNDMAN, FROME & ROSENZWEIG, a corporate and securities boutique located in New York City.
RAYMOND MILLIEN received his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School in 1997 and his B.S. from Columbia University in 1992. He is currently General Counsel of OCEAN TOMO, LLC, a merchant bank focused on intellectual property assets. Previously, he was VP and Group IP Counsel at AMERICAN EXPRESS, and a senior associate in the Washington, D.C. office of PIPER RUDNICK LLP, where he focused his practice on all aspects of intellectual property law. He is admitted to the New York, Virginia and District of Columbia bars, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He started his legal career with the Washington, D.C. IP specialty firm STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX PLLC, and clerked during law school at the Washington, D.C. office of St. Louis-based THOMPSON COBURN LLP. Prior to attending law school, he was a Software Design Engineer with the GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY and a graduate of their Edison Engineering Program. He serves as a lecturer for the BAR/BRI® Patent Bar Review course, has published several articles in the field of patent law, served as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy at the GWU Law School and been a Professorial Lecturer of IP Law at the GWU School of Engineering.
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RAYMOND MILLIEN received his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School in 1997 and his B.S. from Columbia University in 1992. He is currently General Counsel of OCEAN TOMO, LLC, a merchant bank focused on intellectual property assets. Previously, he was VP and Group IP Counsel at AMERICAN EXPRESS, and a senior associate in the Washington, D.C. office of PIPER RUDNICK LLP, where he focused his practice on all aspects of intellectual property law. He is admitted to the New York, Virginia and District of Columbia bars, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He started his legal career with the Washington, D.C. IP specialty firm STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX PLLC, and clerked during law school at the Washington, D.C. office of St. Louis-based THOMPSON COBURN LLP. Prior to attending law school, he was a Software Design Engineer with the GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY and a graduate of their Edison Engineering Program. He serves as a lecturer for the BAR/BRI® Patent Bar Review course, has published several articles in the field of patent law, served as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy at the GWU Law School and been a Professorial Lecturer of IP Law at the GWU School of Engineering.