Jeanine Percival Wright
Experience
Has represented a diverse clientele in all aspects of federal and state courts, arbitrations, and mediations.
Areas of concentration include: defamation, rights of privacy, rights of publicity; copyright and trademark; contract disputes and unfair competition claims; royalty and profit participation disputes; Talent Agencies Act; and malpractice.
Outside Experience
Law Clerk, Hon. Manuel L. Real, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Court Certified Law Student, USC Gould School of Law Domestic Violence Clinic, assisting victims in filing for protective orders and representing them in State Court proceedings
Selected Results*
Profit participation action against a major record label for multi-platinum selling musicians.
Represented transactional entertainment attorneys in malpractice action brought by former client.
Confidential arbitration for television personality against a major talent agency over payment of commissions.
Represented actors and actresses in Talent Agency Act disputes with former managers in the Superior Court and before the California Labor Commission.
Represented writer/producer in a dispute regarding the screenwriting credit on a major motion picture.
Copyright infringement, trade secret, misappropriation, and unfair competition action against a major bank on behalf of developer of software IP.
Represented musicians in a breakup-of-the-band dispute regarding the use of the group's tradename and trademark.
Idea submission actions for television show creators against major networks. (Prior to joining Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.)
Represented production company in a dispute with former employee over credit on a major motion picture. (Prior to joining Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.)
Languages
Memberships
- Co-Founder and Member, WITI (Women in "the Industry"), a networking organization for women in the entertainment industry
- Board Member, Beverly Hills Bar Association Barristers Board of Governors (and Domestic Violence Prevention Project Committee Co-Chair)
- Member, USC Law School/BHBA Entertainment Law and Business Symposium, Syllabus Committee
- Member, Barristers, Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
Civic Associations
Founding Member and Event Committee Chair, Project Resilience, a Los Angeles-based non-profit working to end violence against women
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, an organization advocating for legislative and policy solutions for ending domestic vioence
Pro bono representation of domestic violence victims
Volunteer, American Red Cross Disaster Response Team
Bar Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Education
- USC Gould School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif (2006); Articles Editor, Southern California Law Review; Recipient, Eleanor Klein Merit Award and USC Merit Scholar Award; Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in three courses
- UCLA, B.A., cum laude, Political Science Major, Spanish Minor (2002)
Articles
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The Price of Silence: The Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases in Light of Crawford v. Washington (repeatedly cited in briefing to the Supreme Court of the United States)
79 S. Cal L. Rev. 213
(2005)
Selected Speeches
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Fed Court Boot Camp: How to Practice in Federal Court - Law Clerks Teach the Nuts and Bolts of Federal Practice
MCLE, Los Angeles, California
(May 8, 2009)
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Fed Court Boot Camp: How to Practice in Federal Court - Law Clerks Teach the Nuts and Bolts of Federal Practice
MCLE, San Francisco, California
(April 3, 2009)
- Regular MCLE Course Panelist: "Fed Court BOOT CAMP: How to Practice in Federal Court - Law Clerks Teach the Nuts & Bolts of Federal Practice", Pincus Communications