Amy D. Hogue is a senior litigation partner who co-chairs the Firm's 24-lawyer Intellectual Property Group in Los Angeles and heads the Firm's Media Advertising and Content Counseling specialty team. She is a nationally recognized expert in First Amendment law, and in the rights, privileges and liabilities affecting publishers, broadcasters, entertainment companies, advertising agencies, and other purveyors of content communicated through traditional and electronic media.

Ms. Hogue has prosecuted and defended myriad copyright cases involving a variety of products and media. For example, she has defended production companies, music publishers, and publishers in actions for alleged copyright infringement of scripts, treatments, music, books and manuscripts. She has also represented toy manufacturers, animators, and advertisers in litigation over rights to copyrighted characters such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the James Bond character. For trademark owners, she has prosecuted actions for infringement, dilution, passing off, and unfair competition involving trademarks, service marks, trade dress and internet domain names.

Ms. Hogue has defended an unusually large docket of celebrity right of publicity cases, including cases filed by Tom Cruise, Vanna White, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Estate of Bobby Darin, Neil Armstrong and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar alleging commercial misappropriation of names, likenesses, voices, and identities. She counsels clients on trade secrets and has obtained and defended against motions for preliminary injunction under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Ms. Hogue also advises clients on advertising law and has prosecuted and defended actions for unfair business practices, unfair competition, false advertising, comparative advertising, and insurance coverage for such claims.

Ms. Hogue was invited to lecture on copyright law at Loyola Law School. She was Chair of the Standing Subcommittee on Copyrights of the Intellectual Property Section of State Bar of California from 1991-1994. In addition to serving as a frequent panelist addressing intellectual property law, Ms. Hogue has published articles such as "Image Consulting," Daily Journal Intellectual Property Supplement (February 12, 1998), "The Right of Publicity: Does It Survive Death and Abandonment?" Torts & Insurance Law Journal (Spring 1995) and "Tunes from the Crypt: Is a Midler Cause of Action Descendible?" New Matter (1993).

For twenty years, Ms. Hogue has defended publishers and broadcasters, including all three major television networks, in defamation and invasion of privacy cases.

Ms. Hogue regularly lectures on media law and has been interviewed on Court TV and PBS as an expert in media defense work. She is a frequent contributor to the Libel Defense Resource Center's Libelletter .

Ms. Hogue's media defense practice, which often involves defending against celebrity plaintiffs, was profiled in the October 1998 California Law Business cover story entitled "Tabloids and the Lawyers Who Defend Them," and an August 1999 Atlantic Monthly article entitled, "Tabloid Law."

For media clients and other businesses, Ms. Hogue has served as lead counsel in jury trials, bench trials, arbitrations, and mediations. In California, she has written and argued appeals and petitions to the Court of Appeal, the California Supreme Court, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Based on long-standing relationships with Los Angeles-based banks and manufacturers, Ms. Hogue has been appointed lead counsel defending commercial cases such as a $20 million lender liability action for Sanwa Bank California, a $10 million class action for Union Bank of California, and a $10 million securities case for Royal Trust Bank.

For more than ten years, Ms. Hogue has devoted a portion of her practice to defending management in cases filed by employees alleging breach of contract, discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, defamation and related torts.

Globe Communications Corp., dick clark productions, inc., Sanwa Bank California, ESCO Corp., PTI Technologies, Inc., Union Bank of California, True North Communications, Inc., Pioneer North America, Dreamworks, Foote, Cone & Belding, Leo Burnett Worldwide.