Representative Experience
Contributed to the successful trial defense of prominent hip-hop artist in copyright infringement case
Served on team of primary legal counsel for legendary rock group, responsible for managing intellectual property rights, filing copyright registrations, issuing cease and desist letters, and analyzing accounting records; counsel in multi-million dollar litigation on behalf of rock group against record company over royalty accounting practices
Conducted and supervised motion practice, pretrial discovery and settlement negotiations in a range of cases, including:
- Defense of Oscar-winning film producer and director in dispute involving distribution of film profits and corporate control issues
- Defense of cosmetics company in trademark and unfair
- Defending famous tennis player and coach in lawsuit by former agent
- Negotiating and drafting licensing agreement on behalf of female hip-hop group
- Defense of media company in arbitration proceeding against former gossip columnist
Prior Experience
Associate, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, New York, NY
Law Clerk, The Hon. Rosemary Pooler, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Syracuse, NY
Associate, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, New York, NY
Judicial Intern, The Hon. John Noonan, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, CA
Publications and Presentations
Speaker, "Copyright in the Digital Era," at Technology and the Arts 2007 Conference, Carnegie Mellon University
Author, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Violence," University of Chicago Law School Roundtable, 2002
Author, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle; The Criminalization of Sadomasochistic Sex," Texas Journal of Women and the Law, 2001
Memberships and Activities
Entertainment Law Committee, New York City Bar Association
New York State Bar Association, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Education
J.D., magna cum laude, New York University School of Law, New York, NY, 2002
- Order of the Coif
- Walter J. Derenberg Prize for Copyright Law
- Federal Defender’s Clinic
B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 1998
Languages
Conversant in Mandarin
