Ned Isokawa is a partner in the litigation department of Paul Hastings' San Francisco office. His practice primarily consists of representing technology, telecommunications, manufacturing and consumer companies in intellectual property and tort cases and in consumer class actions. He is a member of the firm's Global Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Mr. Isokawa serves as chair of the litigation department of the firm's San Francisco office and chair of Asia litigation. He also serves as an Early Neutral Evaluator in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Program of the United States District Court, Northern District of California. He has served as the President of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, and is a frequent speaker and panelist on diversity and inclusion issues of special interest to minority attorneys and law students.

Mr. Isokawa graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering, completed six years of graduate work at Berkeley towards a Ph.D. in the same field, and then obtained a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1975.