Alan Glenn Dowling

Designated Attorney Settlement Officer, US District Court, Central District of Califonia, since 200. Specialized education and raining under auspices of Pepperdine University School of Law Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Lead trial counsel in numerous prominent cases, in particular in music copyright infringement, incl. Lester v. U2 (co-lead counsel), Straughter v. Usher, LaCienega Music v. ZZ Top, Minder Music v. Interscope/ RecordsDr. Dre, Pickens and Saadi v. Elton John, Steinberg and Kelly v. ATT, Jobete Music v. Winwood, Motown v. Hormel, Traci Lords v. Caballero Control Corp. , et al.

Litigation at trial and appellate levels before California state and federal courts (including Ninth Circuit and U.S.Supreme Court); U.S. and international arbitrations. Practice has primariliy involved copyright, trademark, entertainment, right of privacy and publicity, idea misappropriation, Internet, multimedia and emerging technologies, antitrust and unfair competition, business tort, securities, corporate and partnership disputes, professional liability, and general civil litigation.

Counseling, and negoatiation and drafting of agreements for, corporation, LLC and partnership formation, operation, sale or acquisition, and dissolution; personal services, employment and management agreements.