Christopher Banys heads The Lanier Law Firm's office in Palo Alto, Calif. His practice focuses on high-stakes intellectual property disputes.Prior to founding The Lanier Law Firm's Palo Alto office, Mr. Banys was associated with several prominent Silicon Valley law firms and focused his practice on high-technology intellectual property disputes.
In addition to intellectual property matters, Mr. Banys has litigated commercial, criminal, immigration, probate, personal injury, employment and state-benefits matters in federal, state and administrative-law courts.
Mr. Banys' pro bono work has included successfully representing low-income individuals in immigration and eviction proceedings, counseling non-profit organizations in intellectual property matters and representing homeless mothers and their children in denial of emergency shelter proceedings.
He earned his law degree from Boston University School of Law, where he was a Dean's Scholar. While at B.U., Mr. Banys participated in the school's exceptional Criminal Clinic program where he tried criminal cases in Massachusetts state courts for two semesters, first as a student defender and later representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a student prosecutor.
Mr. Banys spent his final semester of law school studying at Oxford University in Oxford, England. While there, he focused on comparative intellectual property law and jurisprudence. He earned his undergraduate degree in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of California (Berkeley), with high honors and high distinction in general scholarship.
Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mr. Banys is an avid outdoor recreation enthusiast. He is also a commercially-rated pilot.
Mr. Banys is admitted to practice in all California state courts, and the United States District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California and the Eastern District of Texas.
