Randolph Gaw founded Gaw | Poe LLP and has been practicing law since graduating in 2002 from Stanford Law School with his co-founder Mark Poe. He has been a first or second-chair of at least ten different trials and arbitrations and has obtained verdicts, judgments, or arbitration awards in those matters valued at over $70 million. He has also been appellate counsel of record on eleven appeals and writ petitions to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals or the California Court of Appeal and prevailed in most of them.

Prior to co-founding Gaw | Poe LLP, Mr. Gaw spent more than ten years of litigation practice at international law firms O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Mr. Gaw has been named a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society where fellowship is by invitation only and is limited to less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Mr. Gaw was also recognized as a Super Lawyer™ for Northern California in 2018-2024, and as a Rising Star™ for Northern California for 2016 and 2017, by Super Lawyers magazine.

While at Stanford Law School, Mr. Gaw was a member of the winning team in the moot court competition and also won the award for giving the best individual oral argument. Before attending Stanford, Mr. Gaw graduated from U.C. Berkeley with high distinction with a degree in political science and economics.