Jessica Stebbins Bina

Ms. Bina’s professional experience includes defending clients against a range of complex claims, including copyright, trademark, contract, fiduciary breach, privacy, and fraud claims as well as complex tort actions involving novel issues of employer liability and respondeat superior.

Ms. Bina established her reputation as a skilled trial lawyer representing concert promoter AEG Live in the six-month wrongful death jury trial brought by Michael Jackson’s family, including defending that case on appeal through the family’s attempts to take the case to the California Supreme Court. The verdict was named one of the top 10 most significant defense verdicts of the year by the nation’s leading legal journalists.

Other recent representations include:

• Professional athletes and entertainers in ongoing putative class action arising out of the collapse of cryptocurrency company FTX
• Endeavor Group and subsidiary WME in multiple actions across contract, tort, and labor
• Apple, Inc., in copyright litigation against Corellium, LLC
• IMDb.com in multiple copyright and DMCA actions
• A major broadcast company in copyright litigation
• The Association of Talent Agents (ATA) in its high-profile dispute with the Writers Guild of America
• Former talent agency ICM Partners, LLC, in a representative action filed against it by the Writers Guild over the practice of television packaging
• Harmony Gold USA, Inc., in a successful copyright and trademark arbitration against Tatsunoko Production Company, in which the client prevailed and was awarded substantial attorneys’ fees
• A group of former governmental officials and staff in successful amicus curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court regarding copyright in the law
• A major studio in a number of internal investigations and litigation matters
• A well-known production company in an employment dispute involving allegations of discrimination
• A major Latin radio broadcaster in music licensing litigation and a shareholder rights action