Lawyers 2021

Mary Alexander • Maribeth Annaguey • Jessica Babrick • Alicia Baiardo • Gayle M. Blatt • Ruth M. Bond • Amanda Bonn • Elizabeth Brann • Kimberly Branscome • Laura W. Brill • Davida Brook • Shannon Suzanne Broome • Sandra Brown • Anne Cappella • Sonia Carvalho • Deborah Chang • Hailyn Chen • Tiffany Cheung MAY 19, 2021 • A. Marisa Chun • Elizabeth Cousins • Robyn C. Crowther • Alexis Crump • Denise De Mory • Harmeet Dhillon • Diane M. Doolittle • Daralyn Durie • Sierra Elizabeth • Lisa Ells • Theane Evangelis • Deborah J. Fox • Patricia L. Glaser • Lisa Glasser • Demetria L. Graves • Tanya Greene • Gay Crosthwait Grunfeld • Mona Z. Hanna • Melody Drummond Hansen • Genie Harrison • Mira Hashmall • Marwa M. Hassoun • Lexi Hazam • Lynne Hermle • Elizabeth Hernandez • Kate Hillier • Shawn Holley • Barbara A. Jones • Svetlana Kamyshanskaya • Linda D. Kornfeld • Bethany Kristovich • Janet H. Kwuon • Emily Lam • Belinda Lee • Dominique Shelton Leipzig • Janet I. Levine • Micha Starr Liberty • Allison Libeu • Jan Little • Sarah London TOP• Susan Mac Cormac • Deborah MallgraveWOMEN • Heidi Mayon • Rachael Meny • Christine M. Morgan • Marisol Corral Mork • Ann Marie Mortimer • Nanci E. Nishimura • Crystal Nix-Hines • Megan O’Neill • Laura Kabler Oswell • Lisa Perrochet • Stacy D. Phillips • Sarah Piepmeier •Lawyers Alison Plessman • Maria Rodriguez2021 • Linda Ross • Kelli L.Sager • Neema Sahni • Saina Shamilov • Dena C. Sharp • Luann Simmons • Kelli Scheid Smith • Christine D. Spagnoli • Julia B. Strickland • Mary-Christine “M.C.” Sungaila • Quyen Ta • Sara L. Terheggen • Jordanna Thigpen • Allison Leopold Tilley • Diana Torres • Heidy Vaquerano • Belinda Martinez Vega • Gabrielle A. Vidal • Anne Voigts • Laura R. Washington • Kandace Watson • Natalie Weatherford • Tamera M. Weisser,Davida Ph.D. • Hartley P. M. BrookK. West • Donna L. Wilson • Debra Wong Yang • Amy Zeman

rook focuses her high profile Brook and her team also moved to litigation practice on entertainment dismiss a third case, this one filed by B and media, slander and defamation, Trump in federal court in Wisconsin intellectual property, election law and em- against the state’s elections commis- ployment cases. sion and Evers. It alleged irregularities In February 2021 she filed a proposed in the way absentee ballots were admin- class action complaint against the website istered. The litigation went to a one-day PornHub’s parent company MindGeek, bench trial. Trump v. Wisconsin Elections alleging violations of federal sex traffick- Commission, 2:20-cv-01785 (E.D. Wis., ing and child pornography laws by know- filed Dec. 1, 2020). ingly posting and profiting from thou- “Of all the election suits in all the land, sands of pornographic videos featuring there were very few where evidence was persons under age 18. Doe v. MindGeek presented,” Brook said. “I took the lead USA Inc., 8:2021-cv-00338 (C.D. Cal., filed on developing a joint fact stipulation with Feb. 19, 2021). the other side.” Possibly complicating “I’m a First Amendment proponent, but matters, the case was heard by a Trump SUSMAN GODFREY LLP as it becomes ever easier to say anything appointee, U.S. District Judge Brett H. to millions of people, including producing Ludwig of Milwaukee, Wis., who had been LOS ANGELES online child porn, I’m glad to be co-lead on confirmed by the U.S. Senate just weeks this suit,” Brook said. before the election. Practice Type: Following the November 2020 elec- Ludwig—in an opinion that italicized the tions, Brook successfully defended Ari- word extraordinary to describe the case— Litigation zona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and dismissed the complaint with prejudice. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers in litiga- “[T]he record shows Wisconsin’s Presi- scared for my small son’s future. Would he tion, led by the pro-Donald Trump law- dential Electors are being determined live in a world where you couldn’t count on yer Sidney Powell, intended to prevent in the very manner directed by the Legis- every vote being counted? That placed an the counting of votes for U.S. president. lature,” he wrote. additional layer of meaning on the case.” Following Brook’s dismissal motions, “I attended the hearing by Zoom from both cases were dismissed. my house in L.A.,” Brook said. “I was — John Roemer