Areas of Practice
Jennifer practices in business torts and intellectual property litigation.

She has a depth of experience in trade secret litigation and counseling, and is one of the primary drafters of the CACI Model Jury Instructions regarding trade secrets, required for use in all trade secret matters tried in California.

Representative Experience
Defending and pursuing claims of trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, employee raiding, breach of fiduciary duty and related claims in Federal and Superior court. Recent cases have included allegations of employee thefts of customized software, customer and vender databases, and proprietary business processes.

Defending studios and publishers in copyright infringement and right of publicity actions. Recent cases include defending the publisher of a biography of Marilyn Monroe (Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc. v. BPI Communications, Inc., 378 F. Supp.2d 1189, C.D.Cal. 2005) and intervening on behalf of Showtime to set aside a TRO against the network’s broadcast of a mixed martial arts bout.

Defending Columbia Pictures in a six-party dispute regarding a multi-million dollar accounting for participations. Ivanova v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 217 F.R.D. 501 (C.D.CA. 2003); Laparade v. Ivanova, 387 F.3rd 1099 (9th Cir. 2004); and Laparade v. Ivanova, 2004 WL 2487633 (9th Cir. Nov. 5, 2004).

Pursuing employers’ claims of embezzlement, kickbacks and related misconduct against former employees.

Representative Clients
Lucky Earth LLC

Sony Pictures Entertainment

CBS Broadcasting, Inc.

LHB Trucking Inc.

Bank of America

Publications and Presentations
Primary Drafter, CACI Model Jury Instructions re: Trade Secrets

“Open Court Records vs. Trade Secrets: Reconciling NBC Subsidiary and Rule of Court 243.1 with Civil Procedure § 3246.5,” New Matter, April 2007

“Fight or Flight,” Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, October 2006

“Introduction to California Trade Secrets and Employee Raiding,” California Trade Secrets & Employee Raiding Law Letter, July 2005

Memberships and Activities
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, Board of Directors, 2008-present

California Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, Trade Secret Committee, 2005-Present

California Bar Association, Federal Courts Committee, 2007-Present

Member, Los Angeles Copyright Society and Los Angeles County Bar Association

California Bar Association, Committee on the Administration of Justice, 2001-2005; Chair, 2004-2005; Vice-chair, 2003-2004

Selected to "Rising Stars," Southern California Law & Politics Magazine, 2005-2007

Education
J.D., UCLA School of Law

• American Jurisprudence and Corpus Juris Secundum awards in Civil Procedure
  
• Distinguished Advocate and Best Briefwriter, UCLA's Moot Court competition
  
• UCLA State Moot Court Team
  
• Managing Editor, UCLA Women's Law Journal

• Member, Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics Honor Society)

Prior Experience
Associate, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Los Angeles

Externed for the Honorable Harry Hupp, U.S. District Court Judge

Interned with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and the U.S. State Department Mission to the United Nations