INTRODUCTION
Contributed by: Dale Cendali, Joshua Simmons and Dana DeVlieger, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is one of the world’s lead - ing law firms, with approximately 2,500 lawyers practising from 14 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm’s clients and expe - rience cut across every major industry and
discipline. Clients across the globe call upon Kirkland to handle their most important and complex corporate, litigation, intellectual prop - erty and restructuring matters.
Contributing Editors
Dale Cendali is the firm-wide head of Kirkland & Ellis’s copyright and trade mark practice group. Chambers and Partners has repeatedly named Dale as a Star Individual in the
Joshua Simmons is a nationally recognised appellate and trial court litigator in the USA. He has won every kind of IP litigation and related commercial disputes. In addition to his practice at Kirkland & Ellis, Josh hosts PLI’s IP Discussions with Joshua Simmons, and frequently speaks about and authors numerous articles on emerging IP trends. He is an active member of the Bar, serving as an officer and council member for the ABA IP Law Section, and chairing INTA’s Internet Global Policy Subcommittee and previously sitting on its Online Counterfeiting Task Force.
field and ranked her in Band 1 for Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets as well as for Media & Entertainment: Litigation. Dale is a leader in the Bar, having served as counsel to the board of INTA, chairing numerous committees and serving on the Council to the ABA’s IP Litigation Section. Dale is a prolific writer, speaker and long-time adjunct professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches copyright and trade mark litigation. Co-Author
Dana DeVlieger is an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s copyright, trade mark, internet and advertising litigation group. Her practice includes copyright, trade mark and trade secret litigation in
federal courts, as well as trade mark disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Dana holds a PhD in music theory and her academic research focuses on the use of music analysis in copyright litigation. She frequently presents on music and copyright law and has served as a guest lecturer in undergraduate, graduate and law school classes.
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