It was patent litigator and outside-counsel Shane Brun’s knack for translating complex information into plain English that helped seal a crucial courtroom win, according to the legal team at Seattle technology firm F5 Networks Inc.

In March 2013, Brun, then a partner at K&L Gates, used that skill to distill complicated technical and legal issues into “common sense chunks of information” that made sense to the company’s nontechnical staff and, equally important, to a judge, said F5 Networks general counsel Scot Rogers in an email.