Julie Ephraim is a partner in the firm's litigation department. She specializes in entertainment litigation, including copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property disputes, First Amendment rights, defamation, and rights of publicity, and also has extensive experience in complex profit participation accounting, contract, and business tort disputes involving companies and individuals in the entertainment industry.

Ms. Ephraim represents major motion picture studios, television networks, publishers, production companies, actors, writers, and directors in trials and appeals in the state and federal courts, as well as in arbitrations and mediations. She also represented DC Comics, an affiliate of Warner Bros., in a case brought by Johnny and Edgar Winter, which resulted in a leading California Supreme Court opinion regarding First Amendment rights and the right of publicity.

Ms. Ephraim obtained her B.A. in history from Brown University in 1989, and graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Southern California Law Center in 1992. She is a member of the State Bar of California, and the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Bar Associations.

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