About Laurence Oliver
Laurence Oliver Masson is a attorney specializing in business law and intellectual property, practicing in Berkeley, California. He has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1979. His office is located at 2625 Alcatraz Avenue, Suite 206, Berkeley, CA 94705-2702. Mr. Masson earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics, graduating cum laude from Princeton University.
He then pursued his Juris Doctor at the Georgetown University Law Center. After law school, he clerked for a senior judge on the United States Court of Claims, who also sat by designation on the Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth U.S. Courts of Appeals. His professional experience includes serving as a Staff Attorney within the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., where he investigated, prosecuted, and tried antitrust cases. He later became the Senior Trial Attorney in the FTC’s San Francisco Regional Office and was appointed Acting Director of the Seattle Regional Office, managing a team of fifteen attorneys and seventeen other legal professionals.
In private practice, Mr. Masson has handled significant commercial trials with a focus on intellectual property and antitrust matters. His firm, the Law Office of Laurence O. Masson, offers services in business contracts, business dissolution, business finance, business formation, business litigation, franchising, mergers & acquisitions. Partnership & shareholder disputes.
Mr. Masson is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. He has been recognized for the magnitude of his legal settlements by The Recorder, a journal that reports on significant settlements of lawsuits in California. For consultations, he can be reached at (510) 735-9691.
