Overview
Lorraine Abdulahad is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson who has a varied litigation practice involving complex commercial litigation and intellectual property disputes.
She represents clients in a wide range of industries including media, entertainment and technology. She also represents publicly traded companies in securities class actions, shareholder litigation and government and internal investigations.
Lorraine earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an Articles & Essays editor of the Yale Law Journal. She also participated in the law school’s Financial Markets and Corporate Law Clinic and worked as a teaching fellow in Advanced Legal Writing.
Capabilities
Experience
Securities Litigation
Edison International, Southern California Edison Company and their officers and directors in defending against a federal securities class action and related shareholder derivative suits arising from the Eaton Fire, resulting in a full dismissal of the consolidated securities complaint in the Central District of California, while derivative actions remain pending. An appeal of the federal securities class action l is pending in the Ninth Circuit.
Intel Corporation and its executives and directors in obtaining a dismissal, with prejudice, of a second amended complaint from a securities class action related to public statements about Intel’s foundry business.
Intel Corporation in obtaining dismissal of a securities class action alleging that Intel misled investors about the progress of its next-generation microprocessor technology.
Media, Entertainment, and Technology Litigation
The Motion Picture Association and its content protection organization, Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, a consortium of dozens of movie studios and networks, regarding anti-piracy actions, including pursuing identities of infringers through filing DMCA subpoenas under 17 U.S.C. § 512(h), and cease-and-desist efforts to stamp out growing players in mass online infringement.
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment in a copyright infringement action against the operator of the “Streaming TV Now”an illegal IPTV streaming service, resulting in a district court’s entry of default judgment and an $18.75 million statutory damages award. An appeal is pending in the Fifth Circuit.
Internal Investigations
An international joint venture in responding to a civil investigative demand issued pursuant to the False Claims Act from the Department of Justice.