Rose Leda Ehler

Profile

Rose Leda Ehler is a litigator focused on complex civil litigation with a particular emphasis on legal problems faced by the technology and entertainment industries.

In 2015, Ms. Ehler served as an in-house product counsel attorney for Square, Inc. During this four-month secondment, Ms. Ehler advised business teams on legal issues including privacy, copyright and trademark, consumer protection laws, as well as contract negotiation and drafting.

Ms. Ehler also has extensive litigation and trial experience. Her skills include managing factual investigations, discovery, drafting dispositive motions, and examining and cross-examining witnesses. 

Key Representations:

  • Square as defendant in a putative class action alleging violations of consumer protection laws in California state court. 
  • SoundExchange on behalf of the record companies and recording artists in a Copyright Royalty Board proceeding to set statutory royalty rates owed by webcasters for non-interactive music streaming in the United States through the year 2020.

Ms. Ehler also has an active pro bono practice. In 2014, she represented the non-profit Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) in Los Angeles Superior Court successfully obtaining a court order to protect the confidentiality of its shelter for survivors of human trafficking.   

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Ehler clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she served as senior notes editor for the Stanford Law Review and participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, drafting petitions for certiorari as well as merits briefs before the United State Supreme Court.

 

 

 

Rose Leda Ehler is a litigator focused on complex civil litigation with a particular emphasis on legal problems faced by the technology and entertainment industries.

In 2015, Ms. Ehler served as an in-house product counsel attorney for Square, Inc. During this four-month secondment, Ms. Ehler advised business teams on legal issues including privacy, copyright and trademark, consumer protection laws, as well as contract negotiation and drafting.

Ms. Ehler also has extensive litigation and trial experience. Her skills include managing factual investigations, discovery, drafting dispositive motions, and examining and cross-examining witnesses. 

Key Representations:

  • Square as defendant in a putative class action alleging violations of consumer protection laws in California state court. 
  • SoundExchange on behalf of the record companies and recording artists in a Copyright Royalty Board proceeding to set statutory royalty rates owed by webcasters for non-interactive music streaming in the United States through the year 2020.

Ms. Ehler also has an active pro bono practice. In 2014, she represented the non-profit Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) in Los Angeles Superior Court successfully obtaining a court order to protect the confidentiality of its shelter for survivors of human trafficking.   

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Ehler clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she served as senior notes editor for the Stanford Law Review and participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, drafting petitions for certiorari as well as merits briefs before the United State Supreme Court.