Of Counsel
Loralee Sundra
Ms. Sundra specializes in Media & First Amendment Law, Intellectual Property issues and Civil Litigation.
She earned her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law, where she won the American Jurisprudence Award in Labor Law and Criminal Procedure. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. 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 – 2017, Member