 Prior to Stanford Law, where he has been teaching at since 2004, he taught law at University of Texas School of Law (1994-2000) as The Marrs McLean Professor of Law and UC Berkeley School of Law (2000-2004) as The Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law.Since 2009, he also practices law as a partner at Durie Tangri LLP, which he co-founded.Before his academic career, Lemley practiced law with the firms of Brown and Bain as well as Fish and Richardson.