Allonn E. Levy

• Reversed Discretionary Ruling on Anti-SLAPP Fees: Successfully defended trial court’s denial of an anti-SLAPP motion on both “threshold” identification and “public interest” bases. Successfully overturned trial court’s discretionary denial of recovery of fees based on frivolous anti-SLAPP motion on cross-appeal. In a published opinion, the First District Court of Appeal found an “abuse of discretion” in the trial court’s refusal to award fees.
• E-Commerce Dispute Resolved: Litigated multiple copyright, unfair competition and Domain Name disputes and counterclaims between two competing e-commerce companies. Successfully mediated a resolution that included a formal judgment in favor of plaintiff on all counts, dismissal of all counterclaims and re-assignment of all domain names.
• Complex Probate Trial Success: Successfully litigated multiple petitions set for trial involving $30 million twin estates. Employed a phased approach to litigate a particular issue first, successfully resolving most issues and defending the decedent’s will leaving all of his real estate empire to his long-time spouse.

• Real Property Rights Vindicated: After multi-week trial, secured a money judgment for more than $6 million against a large property ownership group, together with declaratory relief securing real property rights for several family members in a multi-generational real property and fraud dispute. Concurrently obtained a fully defense judgment on all monetary and equitable cross-claims.
• 11th Circuit Social Media Precedent: Provided amicus support for the Netchoice cases involving cross-over First Amendment and Social Media curating rights. After successfully setting precedent before the Eleventh Circuit, the case was combined with a similar Fifth Circuit case to form the basis of the Supreme Court’s precedent in Netchoice v. Paxton and Moody v. Netchoice.
• $400 Million Business & Trustee Duty Trial Win: Following Phase I of a multi-week trial involving complex business, shareholder and trust issues, obtained a complete “defense” judgment on a litany of substantive claims seeking over $400 million in damages then successfully precluded Phase II of the trial on various fraud theories based upon findings made in the Phase I trial. The combined findings of Phase I and Phase II of the trials resulted in a complete defense judgment in favor of seven individuals and one corporation.
• Positive Resolution of Copyright Action by Agreement: Obtained a stipulated judgment of dismissal of all claims related to a copyright action involving complex GPL “open-source” issues and novel unfair competition theories involving two multi-national competitors.
• Competing Agricultural Business and IP Disputes Resolved: Obtained a successful negotiated resolution of two related cases involving shareholder derivative and direct action claims of breaches of fiduciary duty, corporate mismanagement, trademark infringement and conversion in a complex dispute involving a number of businesses, agricultural properties and vineyards.
• Multi-Million Dollar Judgment in Multi-State Fraud Scheme: Obtained a $5.4 million judgment against multiple out-of-state defendants flowing out of a complex scheme of business fraud. Then prevailed on a short-cause court trial in Georgia domesticating that judgment to pursue the debtor there and defeating an array of counterclaims.
• Summary Judgment on Copyright and Related Claims: Obtained partial summary judgment in favor of a regional software manufacturer on copyright and breach of contract claims brought in the Northern District Court of California. The same motion also successfully secured a judgment of complete dismissal of all counter-claims brought against the software manufacturer.
• Multi-Day Court Trial Success in Florida Bankruptcy Court: Led successful $19 million claim objection trial before the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Florida, involving complex issues of California Civil Procedure, indemnity and business tort issues.
• Landmark Judgment in Napa Business Dispute: Won $14.8 million trial judgment for client in a large, complex business fraud case in Napa County, one of the largest verdicts ever to come out of that Court.
• Large Win in Complex Business Dispute: Won $5.8 million jury verdict for client including a finding of no liability on $12 million in cross-claims, based on $50 million in undocumented financial transactions.
• Multi-Million Dollar Arbitration Win: Prevailed in a multi-million dollar court-ordered arbitration involving a complex business dispute relating to the dissolution of a business.
• Complex Trial on International IP issues: Completed a 40‑day, multi-million dollar, jury trial involving International Copyright claims, Trade Secrets and Business Torts.
• Successfully Litigation of Complex Database Protection Issues: Involved in prosecuting and defending Copyright and DMCA claims relating to database copyright protection
• ITC Victory: Successfully extracted client from a lengthy multi-party ITC investigation involving multiple claims of patent infringement while achieving a global resolution including the dismissal of pending patent infringement claims in the District Court of Texas.
• Landmark Supreme Court Involvement: Retained by multiple U.S. and European groups and business leaders to file an amicus curiae brief before the United States Supreme Court in the precedent-setting patent case, Bilski v. Kappos.
• Landmark DMCA Litigation: Worked on the very first trial to challenge the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in New York.
• Landmark Trade Secret/First Amendment Precedent:  Led two precedent-setting cases in California involving cyber-jurisdiction and the intersection of First Amendment and trade secret rights, prevailing on both, and establishing two important opinions creating Supreme Court precedent in California.

• Katherine & George Alexander Community Law Center, Diversity Leadership Award, 2020
• Santa Clara University School of Law, Diversity Award, 2016
• Silicon Valley Business Journal, Top 40 Lawyers Under 40, Multiple Years
• California Lawyer, Lawyer of the Year, 2003

Allonn has spoken at:

• RSA Security Conference
• LinuxWorld New York
• DVDPro
• 76^th Annual Meeting of The California State Bar

Allonn has been quoted in:

• Copyright World
• e‑Week
• Internet Daily
• Los Angeles Daily Journal

• Los Angeles Times
• National Law Journal
• New York Times
• PC World
• San Francisco Chronicle
• San Francisco Daily Journal
• San Jose Mercury News
• The Marker
• Washington Internet Daily
• Washington Post

Allonn has been published in:

• Copyright World
• San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Journals
• Social Media Monthly

• Santa Clara County La Raza Lawyers Association
• IP Justice, Board of Directors

• Santa Clara University School of Law, Guest Lecturer: Civil Procedure, Internet-Based Personal Jurisdiction
• Santa Clara University School of Law Diversity Gala, Master of Ceremonies
• Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center, Past President, Vice President & Finance Chairperson