Julia L. Greenberg

We represented secure networking company Fortinet, winning a complete defense verdict after a four-week jury trial in Santa Clara Superior Court where plaintiff Alorica sought compensatory damages of more than $200 million, plus additional enhancements for punitive damages. The jury found that Fortinet was not liable on Alorica’s claims of fraud and breach of warranty. KVP was retained a few months before the trial date, and in short order the defense team obtained several favorable pretrial rulings. Prior to the jury verdict, the KVP team also obtained directed verdicts on punitive damages and plaintiff’s largest claim for compensatory damages.

We defended Netflix against a 12-patent case Broadcom filed in the Central District of California. After transferring the case to the Northern District of California, we successfully invalidated 9 patents in the district court or through inter partes review. Broadcom agreed to dismiss the remaining three patents, and the Court entered judgment in favor of Netflix.

Defending generative AI platform Runway in copyright lawsuit filed by illustrators and visual artists alleging use of their works to train image models amounts to copyright infringement. Successfully narrowed the case through motion practice to eliminate claims under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and California state law claims.

We serve as co-counsel with the ACLU foundations of California in a putative class action challenging unlawful immigration enforcement practices by the U.S. Border Patrol in Kern County. The lawsuit alleges that dozens of long-term county residents were seized in warrantless arrests—based on skin color and appearance—and coerced into “voluntary” deportations without due process in an operation carried out 300 miles from the border. A U.S. District Court issued a preliminary injunction requiring federal agents to comply with constitutional standards of reasonable suspicion and probable cause when apprehending people.

We are representing Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (CREXi), a fast-growing commercial real estate marketplace, against a copyright and unfair competition lawsuit brought by industry giant CoStar and in a countersuit that alleges monopolistic conduct by CoStar.

For more than a decade, we have represented the San Diego County Water Authority in litigation against the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), the regional water wholesaler for most of Southern California. We have led them through three separate trials, and represented them in three separate appeals, resulting in more than $100 million in recovered damages, interest and attorneys’ fees, plus legal victories that have provided more than $1 billion in long-term benefit to the Water Authority.