Meredith Krannich

Meredith Krannich is an advisor in the Executive Advisory Program of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Resident in the firm’s Salt Lake City office, she focuses on leveraging her nearly 20 years of experience in the life sciences sector as a lawyer and business executive to advise clients on a variety of legal operational and business matters. Meredith is also an adjunct professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she has lectured on lawyering skills, arbitration, and advanced negotiation and mediation.

Prior to joining Wilson, Meredith served as Vice President and General Counsel at bioMérieux, where she built and led diverse, talented, and collaborative in-house legal teams and advised on key strategic business initiatives, among other matters. Before assuming this role, she was Vice President of Legal Affairs—and previously Senior Corporate Counsel—at BioFire Diagnostics. Earlier in her legal career, Meredith was an intellectual property and litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago.

Prior to her legal career, Meredith received a degree in molecular biology and genetics from the University of East Anglia, England and was part of a team from the University of California, Irvine researching cell signaling in human cancer. She is co-author of a publication in Nature Medicine relating to their work.

Deno Himonas

Former Utah Supreme Court Justice Constandinos “Deno” Himonas brings over three decades of experience to Wilson Sonsini’s litigation and appellate practices. Deno joined the firm upon his retirement from the Utah Supreme Court in March 2022, where he served for seven years and participated in hundreds of appeals that spanned nearly all areas of the law. Prior to his appointment to the high court, Deno served as a trial court judge in Utah for nearly eleven years. In that capacity, he tried well over 100 cases and presided over thousands of matters, including a wide swath of complex civil litigation, numerous state and federal constitutional matters, and the most serious of criminal cases. During his many years in private practice, as during his years as a jurist, Deno has been involved in a broad manner of complex civil disputes, including antitrust, corporate governance, securities, government fraud, intellectual property, tax, mining, employment, and real estate litigation.

Because of his deeply held commitment to improving access to justice for all, Deno has been at the forefront of the push in the United States to reform the regulation of the practice of law. His efforts include allowing non-lawyers to provide legal advice, the development of Utah’s groundbreaking Online Dispute Resolution platform, and Utah’s Office of Legal Services Innovation and accompanying regulatory “sandbox,“ which allows entities to explore new ways of delivering legal services. Deno has also given much of his time to law students, having guest lectured at law schools across the country and taught courses in judicial advocacy and civil process. Most recently, Deno served as Innovator-in-Residence at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.