Alyssa Tapper is a senior associate in the firm’s Entertainment & Media Litigation group. Alyssa represents entertainment clients, corporations, and individuals in complex business disputes across a range of forums, including federal and state courts and arbitration proceedings. She has substantial experience managing the full life cycle of litigation, from case inception through discovery, dispositive motions, trial, and appeal.
Alyssa’s practice covers a broad spectrum of high-stakes commercial disputes, including matters involving breach of contract, intellectual property, fraud, securities, and other complex issues.
Alyssa’s practice covers a broad spectrum of high-stakes commercial disputes, including matters involving breach of contract, intellectual property, fraud, securities, and other complex issues.
Experience
- Animation studio in a copyright litigation
- Social media channels, gaming entities, and lifestyle brands in pre-litigation copyright, trademark, and contractual disputes.
- Technology corporation in an intellectual property and contract dispute (day-to-day and discovery lead)
- Multinational apparel company in a putative class action alleging pay and promotion discrimination, including a successful Ninth Circuit appeal involving First Amendment issues (significant team lead and primary drafter)
- Alternative investment management company in a breach of contract dispute concerning the sale of multiple hotel properties, culminating in a full trial win, recovery of attorneys’ fees, and affirmance on appeal (with significant responsibility for drafting, discovery, and coordination)
- Cryptocurrency company in a successful dismissal of a federal securities class action (with lead drafting responsibility)
- Life sciences company facing allegations of business torts and fraud, with the action dismissed at an early stage (with primary drafting responsibility)
- Multinational bank in a successful dismissal of fraud claims (with primary drafting responsibility)
- Sales agents in a pro bono defense of securities claims in the Central District of California and the Ninth Circuit involving two circuit splits (day-to-day lead)
Credentials
Education
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, J.D. (Order of the Coif), 2018 Chapman University, B.S., 2015