Darya Pollak’s areas of interest include intellectual property litigation and counseling and digital and new media. Her experience includes representation of a highly successful website in various intellectual property matters including domain name arbitrations, pre-litigation trademark protection, and trademark, false advertising and copyright litigation; representation of a music distributor in a copyright case; representation of a high-end fashion house in a copyright dispute over fabric design; and assisting websites with regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Pollak has also worked on a number of entertainment contract disputes for studios and production companies. As an active participant in Kaye Scholer’s pro bono program, Ms. Pollak counsels non-profits with respect to their web policies and trademark rights and has drafted trademark and artist agreements on behalf of a prominent local museum.
MEHRAdditionally, Ms. Pollak has significant experience in the area of pharmaceutical products liability. Ms. Pollak has managed and conducted case-specific discovery for numerous plaintiffs in both state court and federal multi-district litigation, collaborated with co-counsel in a virtual law firm to create and implement a multi-district litigation case-evaluation database, and has extensive research and briefing experience.
Prior to joining Kaye Scholer, Ms. Pollak served as a foreign law clerk to Justice Asher Grunis of the Supreme Court of Israel and, while at law school, she was an extern to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Pollak is a graduate of UCLA School of Law, where she was a managing editor of the UCLA Law Review and named to the Order of the Coif. She earned her B.A. in Spanish and Political Science, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Rice University, and spent a year conducting research in South America as a Thomas J. Watson fellow. She is fluent in Spanish and speaks conversational Hebrew and basic Portuguese.
