

Michael C. Herrera
- San Diego
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Michael (he/him) is a technology lawyer who focuses his practice on advising clients in all aspects of acquiring, developing, commercializing, and licensing new technologies and products through complex and unique commercial and licensing agreements.
Often using novel approaches that further his clients' business objectives, Michael Herrera has extensive experience structuring strategic alliances, collaborations, patent and trade secret licenses, and services delivery arrangements, including clinical trial and sponsored research, as well as structuring research, design, development, non-recurring engineering, contract manufacturing, fabrication, testing, assembly, distribution, and other supply chain-related relationships.
Michael has represented startups, emerging growth entities, and high-profile technology enterprises, as well as Fortune 500 companies. His clients come from a wide variety of technology-focused industry sectors, including the semiconductor, newspace, advanced hardware, quantum computing, interactive and immersive entertainment, clean technology, life sciences, transportation, consumer goods and electronics, wireless, and chemical and material sciences industries.
Michael's background and experience has earned him a reputation for being a trusted advisor to clients working to bring some of the world's most cutting-edge and world-changing technologies to market. For example, Michael has dealt with a variety of such technologies, including satellites and space vehicle assemblies, quantum computing hardware and software, custom silicon and semiconductors, immersive and interactive entertainment hardware, next generation hardware for consumer devices, enterprise applications, and autonomous vehicle systems, life sciences and biotechnology (including biologics, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices), advanced robotics, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and technologies using natural language machine learning models and quantum hardware to help discover new chemical and material solutions to key issues, such as discovering novel protein folds or predicting chemical reactions that can be used to cure cancer.
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Education & Credentials
Education
- Duke University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Staff Editor, Duke Law Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, 2016
- Johns Hopkins University, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 2012
Bar and Court Admissions
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California
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District of Columbia
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North Carolina
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Texas
Professional Recognition
Listed in Super Lawyers Magazine as a "San Diego Rising Star,” 2025