- A.B., Stanford University, Human Biology and Comparative Literature, 1988
- M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 1989
- J.D., Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
Daralyn Durie has been chosen by The American Lawyer as one of the top 50 litigators under age 45 in the United States and selected by the Daily Journal as one of the top 100 lawyers and one of the top 50 intellectual property lawyers in California.
She serves as lead counsel in high-stakes intellectual property cases for companies ranging from small startups like Guidewire Software, Fortinet and Rayspan to large companies such as Genentech, Comcast and PG&E.
Daralyn also handles nationwide and international class actions, including the settlement of claims of copyright infringement arising from Google's program of scanning works in major library collections and defending Google against allegations of "click fraud." She defended Gap, Inc. against claims brought on behalf of fifty thousand garment workers arising out of factory conditions in Saipan. She represents the California State University against a class of 420,000 students challenging fee increases, and successfully fended off a preliminary injunction motion in that case. Daralyn also represents various law firms in professional liability matters.
Following law school, Daralyn clerked for the Honorable Douglas Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She then began work at Keker & Van Nest as an associate, and became a partner of the firm in January 1999. Daralyn co-founded Durie Tangri in 2009.
Daralyn is the past program chair and a member of the Board of Directors of the Northern California Association of Business Trial Lawyers, a former co-chair of the Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, and a court-appointed Early Neutral Evaluator for the Northern District of California. She has testified before the Federal Trade Commission, demonstrated cross-examination to judges from China, and speaks frequently on intellectual property issues. She is a co-author of a two-volume practice guide on California civil trials.
In high school, Daralyn was the Canadian national independent school debate champion. She and Mark Lemley, as partners at Stanford, had the distinction of being demolished by the English National Champion Oxford debate team their freshman year.