Kaye Scholer

Ms. Trotter has tried several cases to verdict as “first chair,” including a January 2011 jury trial in which she obtained on behalf of the owner of the freecreditreport.com trademark a seven-figure cybersquatting verdict, and successfully defended counterclaims for fraud on the Patent and Trademark Office and antitrust violations.

Recent highlights of Ms. Trotter’s brand protection experience include:

• Lead trial counsel and obtained seven-figure jury verdict after five-week trial on behalf of owner of freecreditreport.com trademark in cybersquatting and trademark infringement case. Obtained complete defense verdict on counterclaims for fraud on the Patent and Trademark Office and antitrust violations. ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. v. Chang, et al. (C.D. Cal. Jan. 2011).
  
  
• Lead counsel in numerous intellectual property adversary proceedings on behalf of the Chapter 11 Trustee of Death Row Records, Inc. (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, C.D. Cal. 2006-present).
  
  
• Lead counsel and obtained summary judgment on behalf of owner of website freecreditreport.com in trademark infringement case. ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. v. Money Management International, Inc., 2008 WL 4183929 (C.D. Cal. Sept. 2, 2008).
  
  
• Lead trial counsel and obtained stipulated injunction and favorable settlement on first day of trial on behalf of plaintiff in trade dress and trademark infringement case involving website freecreditreport.com. ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. v. Mighty Net, Inc. (U.S.D.C., C.D. Cal. August 2007).
  
  
• Lead counsel and obtained preliminary injunction on behalf of plaintiffs, members of recording group Hawthorne Heights, in trademark and copyright infringement case. Bucciarrelli-Tieger, et al. v. Victory Records (N.D. Ill. 2007).
  
  
• Co-trial counsel in a lawsuit filed by an independent record label against a media conglomerate involving claims of fraud, willful copyright infringement, tortious interference with contract and breach of contract. A federal jury returned a verdict that was subsequently listed by The National Law Journal as number 17 on its list of the “Top 100 Verdicts of 2003.” TVT Records v. The Island Def Jam Music Group (S.D.N.Y. 2003).
  
  
• Co-trial counsel in one of the first in a series of copyright infringement lawsuits by record labels against digital music distributors. Obtained favorable settlement on first day of trial. TVT v. MP3.com, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 2001).

Ms. Trotter’s other significant trial experience includes:

• Lead trial counsel and obtained favorable ruling on behalf of the Allegiance Telecom Liquidating Trust against Carl Icahn’s XO Communications, Inc. in a bench trial in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The dispute arose out of a $600 million telecommunications asset purchase. In re Allegiance Telecom, 2005 WL 1629848 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 28, 2005); In re Allegiance Telecom, 356 B.R. 93 (2006).
  
  
• Co-trial counsel and obtained favorable settlement during jury trial in defending major hotel chain against employment claims in San Diego Superior Court (2004).
  
  
• Lead trial counsel as volunteer prosecutor in criminal cases, handling several jury trials involving domestic violence charges (2002).
  
  
• Co-trial counsel and obtained defense verdict on behalf of Ferro Corporation after two week jury trial involving breach of contract and environmental claims. Price v. Ferro Corporation, Los Angeles Superior Court (1996).

Ms. Trotter received her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where she was Senior Articles Editor of the California Law Review, winner of the McBaine Moot Court Honors Program, and recipient of the Stephen Finney Jamison Award for outstanding scholarship and advocacy. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University.

Ms. Trotter is a board member of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and a former board member of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation. She has also served as a volunteer prosecutor in the Long Beach City Attorney’s office, trying to verdict misdemeanor criminal cases.