Entertainment and Media

• Helped Fox overturn a US$128.5 million punitive damages arbitration award to the stars and two producers of Fox’s longtime hit television show Bones
• Obtained dismissal for Fox Broadcasting, FremantleMedia, CORE Media Group, and others of a putative class action complaint brought by former African-American male contestants who had been disqualified from American Idol
• Represented Warner Bros. and The CW Network in a “vertical integration claim” relating to Smallville
• Representation of studios in connection with various in profit participation disputes with on-screen talent, showrunners, writers, producers, and co-financiers

Employment

• Representing Fox and Tubi in putative pay equity and gender discrimination class action
• Representing Disney against California Labor Code claims asserted by actress Gina Carano relating to The Mandalorian
• Representing major entertainment company against claims of reverse race discrimination
• Defended World Wrestling Entertainment in lawsuit brought by a former writer alleging federal and state retaliation and discrimination claims
• Defended major entertainment company against pay equity claims asserted by terminated senior executive
• Represented Fox in litigation arising from Netflix’s tortious interference with Fox’s fixed-term employment contracts and defended against Netflix’s cross claims that Fox’s fixed-term employment contracts violate California’s public policy in favor of employee mobility
• Represented Activision in executive poaching litigation against Netflix
• Represented FremantleMedia regarding Paula Abdul’s sexual assault claims concerning her work as a judge on the hit television show American Idol
• Represented FremantleMedia regarding Gabrielle Union's discrimination and harassment claims concerning her work as a judge on the hit television show America's Got Talent
• Represented Fox in litigation involving claims of discrimination on the set of the primetime comedy television series The Grinder
• Obtained dismissal for FremantleMedia in litigation involving claims of sexual harassment against a voice coach on American Idol
• Obtained dismissal for FremantleMedia in litigation involving claims of disability discrimination involving America’s Got Talent

Intellectual Property

• Represents Paramount Pictures in copyright infringement lawsuit over Top Gun: Maverick
• Represented Marvel in a series of copyright termination litigations involving some of Marvel’s most iconic characters
• Represented major studio in copyright infringement lawsuit over Academy Award winning picture
• Represented 20th Century in copyright litigation over The Predator franchise
• Obtained dismissal for Fox in copyright litigation over the breakout hit Empire
• Obtained summary judgment for Fox in a trademark dispute concerning the breakout hit Empire
• Represented Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema in copyright and contract action over merchandising, service, and theme park rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
• Represented a regional bank against allegations of trademark infringement over new name resulting from rebranding due to multiple mergers
• Successfully defended Warner Bros. in copyright termination matter

Business Torts and Unfair Competition

• Representing 50 percent owner in litigation relating to one of the Southern California’s largest outdoor advertising companies
• Successfully secured summary-judgment-stage permanent injunction against Netflix in tortious interference and Section 17200 litigation
• Represented FremantleMedia in tort and breach-of-contract case concerning the hit reality show The X-Factor
• Secured dismissal for Fox of Section 17200 claims in employment dispute
• Represented Citibank in litigation arising out of one of the largest foreign currency trading frauds
• Defended Sundance Institute against tortious interference claims

Pro Bono

• Helped lead O’Melveny pro bono team representing a coalition of Wisconsin voters and organizations in a federal lawsuit brought to ensure that all voters in this key battleground state could safely and equitably cast ballots during the November 2020 general election
• Represented an individual alleging Eighth Amendment violations after he was housed with a known member of a rival gang in his appeal before the Ninth Circuit
• Represented several not-for-profit associations of lawyers in filing of amicus brief before Second Circuit in support of district court's ruling in United States v. Stein
• Represented a single mother and her two minor children living in New York City Public Housing in housing court
• Obtained asylum for a young man from Chad in asylum court in New Jersey who fled his home country due to persecution resulting from his political beliefs