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McKinney Law Group APC staffs matters based on client need. 

Our professionals have a wide variety of backgrounds.


A Sampling of Our Professionals


Corporate Attorney: Former GC of a financial services company.  


Corporate Attorney: Former Senior Counsel of a major pharmaceutical company.  

                       

Employment Attorney:  Former GC of a non-profit corporation.  


Patent Agent:  Former patent manager of a high technology device company.  


Patent Agent:  Former officer of an emerging, pharmaceutical company. 


Transactional/Branding:  Former GC of a film and television production company.

Jeffrey A. McKinney, J.D., Ph.D. 


Dr. McKinney has been practicing law for over fifteen years in Silicon Valley and Southern California. He has been in private practice at both Morrison & Foerster LLP, Palo Alto, and Townsend Townsend & Crew, Palo Alto, and has served as Chief Patent Counsel for a public company. Dr. McKinney received his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he was a Brown and Bain High Technology fellow. Prior to entering law school, he worked as a scientist for Zeneca 

Pharmaceuticals (now AstraZeneca). Dr. McKinney holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Ohio State University, where he was a University Fellow and a Lubrizol Fellow, and he performed postdoctoral work at Stanford University as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow. Dr. McKinney earned a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude with departmental honors in English Literature at Hanover College in Indiana.  Mr. McKinney is a listed inventor on ten issued U.S. patents.