Staff

Wayne Stacy
Executive Director

Wayne Stacy has been a recognized leading expert on patent law and IP litigation for over two decades. He spent more than 20 years in several of the world’s top law firms. Most recently, he was a senior partner and Intellectual Property Chair for Baker Botts’ San Francisco office. Prior to that, Wayne was an equity partner in the IP Litigation section of Cooley LLP. 

During his career, several leading publications—including Chambers, Intellectual Asset Management (IAM), National Law Journal, and Super Lawyers—listed Wayne as one of the country’s top patent litigators and IP strategists.  And recently, he was appointed as a Fulbright Specialist with a specialty in education and AI law.

As part of his dedication to public service, Wayne volunteered his time as an adjunct professor to four law schools–annually teaching patent law, patent litigation, copyright law, or PTAB practice. In 2020, he transitioned his career to full-time public service. Currently, he leads one of the country’s leading legal research centers, Berkeley Law’s Center for Law & Technology. Prior to joining Berkeley Law, Wayne served as the Director for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Silicon Valley Office.

Wayne’s research at Berkeley Law focuses on junior-attorney development, especially within Big Law. He has written and lectured about training practices and the link to demographic variances in attrition.

Abril Delgado
Director, Operations & Development

Abril joined BCLT in November 2022 and currently oversees the Center’s daily operations and sponsorship development. Prior to this role, she supported BCLT’s student programming and activities—planning and executing student events, advising student groups, and promoting meaningful student engagement. She also coordinated BCLT’s recruiting fairs, career mixers, networking opportunities, and student event marketing, while building and managing strong relationships with sponsor law firm recruiters.

Abril holds a Bachelor of Science in Conservation & Resource Studies with a minor in Sustainable Design from the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard Fisk
Director, Events & Engagement

Richard oversees planning and execution of the center’s extensive portfolio of conferences, symposiums, forums, and workshops. Richard also manages in-person and virtual event marketing and engagement strategies and communications. Prior to joining BCLT, Richard was Special Events Manager for the 2015 San Francisco International Film Festival, and Director of Events at Central European University, a graduate institution in Budapest, Hungary, from 2011- 2015. He has an extensive background in corporate project coordination, which is when he first began organizing large events.  Richard holds an M.A. in Broadcast and Electronic Communication from San Francisco State.

Justin Tri Do
Events Specialist

Justin joined BCLT in September 2022. Justin is responsible for maintaining BCLT’s extensive, growing and very active portfolio of virtual events on the BCLT/Berkeley Law proprietary knowledge sharing platform, B-CLE. This includes scheduling and running live webinars and on-demand content, editing recorded sessions, and ensuring technical quality and ADA compliance of all content in the B-CLE library. Justin is also responsible for promoting virtual events via weekly emails. Alongside BCLT, he is also affiliated with UC Berkeley Law’s Berkeley Judicial Institute (BJI), conducting a similar role with judges and judiciary-focused organizations. Justin holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in Philosophy with interest in Social Morality, Ethics, and Political Philosophy.