Of Counsel
Loralee Sundra
Ms. Sundra specializes in Media & First Amendment Law, Intellectual Property issues, and Civil Litigation.
Ms. Sundra also regularly counsels clients on domestic and international copyright, trademark, licensing and other entertainment, media, publishing and Internet-related matters.
She earned her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law, with honors, and graduated summa cum laude with a dual B.A. degree in Communications and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Selected Experience:
- United States District Court, C.D. California, Western Division, REED MARTIN v. VIVENDI UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, FOCUS FEATURES, LLC, JAMES JARMUSCH, GLENN RIGBERG, Case No. CV96-1684 RSWL (JWJx). September 2007: Assisted at trial where we obtained a defense verdict and dismissal of a copyright and idea theft lawsuit regarding the motion picture Broken Flowers filed against the writer/director Jim Jarmusch, Universal Studios, Focus Features, and producer Glenn Rigberg.
- United States District Court, E.D. Texas, DONNA WEST V. TYLER PERRY, LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT, TYLER PERRY COMPANY, Case No. 2:07cv200 (E.D.Tex. Dec. 9, 2008) (Davis, J.) December 2009: Assisted at trial where we obtained a jury verdict in favor of defendants (Tyler Perry, Lions Gate Entertainment, Tyler Perry Company) in a copyright infringement lawsuit over Tyler Perry's movie Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
- United States District Court, District of Nevada, CORBELLO V. DEVITO, ET AL., Case No. 08-CV-00867-RCJ-PAL. October 2008-June 2017: Assisted in all phases of a nearly decade-long case in which we obtained summary judgment for Frankie Valli and the other creators of the Broadway musical Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement and an accounting based on a theory that defendants became co-copyright owners of a biographical manuscript about a former Four Seasons member. Corbello v. DeVito, et al., 832 F.Supp.2d 1231 (D.Nev. 2011); 844 F.Supp.2d 1136 (D.Nev. 2012). Following the Ninth Circuit's reversal of summary judgment and remand to trial, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, and we filed a post-trial Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law, which the Court granted as to all remaining defendants on a finding of "fair use" as a matter of law (2017 WL 2587924 (D.Nev. 2017)).
Professional Activity:
- State Bar of California, Member
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1992 – 2018, Member