Russ August & Kabat Partner, Irene Y. Lee, a leading Intellectual Property lawyer in the region, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Business Journal for her assessment of the current state of IP legislation, the new rules of copyright protection, licensing and technology, and the various trends that she’s been observing, and in some cases, driving. Read the article. 

Russ August & Kabat is honored to have been recognized as a Best Law Firm by U.S. News and Best Lawyers, who have joined to rank more than 14,000 firms across the United States. In addition, Russ August & Kabat is proud of Partners, Larry C. Russ and Stanton “Larry” Stein, who have been recognized as Best Lawyers in The Best Lawyers of America 2020 Edition.

Russ August & Kabat congratulates associate, Diana Sanders, who was elected and installed as the President of the LA County Bar Association’s Barristers/Young Attorneys section. This section is the largest of LACBA’s 26 active sections, holding about 11,000 members. The installation and awards dinner, which had a showing of around 600 guests, took place on Thursday, June 27, 2019 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Russ August & Kabat was a proud sponsor of the event. See photos. Read Diana Sanders’ Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine article, “Benefits of Becoming a Part of the Barristers/Young Attorney Section”.

Russ August & Kabat is proud of its partner, Philip X. Wang, who was profiled by Super Lawyers Magazine in the cover story titled, “The Master: Philip X. Wang brings a chess-champion mind to patent law”, published in June 2019. Read the article.

Russ August & Kabat’s Entertainment Litigation Partner, Ashley R. Yeargan, and co-counsel Richard A. Rohan, Kelli Hinson, and Thomas S. Conner from Dallas’s Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P., won a complete victory for reality television star Camille Grammer in a defamation and malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by her ex-boyfriend after she reported that he assaulted her in 2013. A jury of five women and three men issued the unanimous verdict on April 24, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas before the Hon. Karen Gren Scholer. Read more.

Russ August & Kabat Partner, Larry C. Russ, negotiated a highly publicized settlement on behalf of Yodeler Wylie Gustafson against early internet era pioneer Yahoo, in 2002. Gustafson, who had recorded a single yodel for a supposedly regional Yahoo radio commercial for $590.38, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Yahoo after the company began using Gustafson’s distinctive and unique yodel as the company’s audible signature on a myriad of company products and releases. See article.