Meta just hired the prominent trial attorney Karen L. Dunn to represent Meta in the remaining part of Kadrey v. Meta, involving the distribution copyright infringement claim for Meta’s alleged torrenting of files from pirated books datasets including distribution of them to others.
Dunn cofounded her own law firm, Dunn Isaacson Rhee. And her successes in technology cases may be second to none. From her firm bio:
Karen has successfully led some of the largest and most important trials of the past decade, including Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc., the hotly contested trade secrets “battle royale,” which settled favorably for Uber shortly after Karen’s examination at trial of former CEO Travis Kalanick.
Malden Transportation, Inc. v. Uber Technologies, Inc., where she delivered a complete defense victory in a $750 million dispute after being brought in to lead the trial team just six weeks before trial.
Epic Games Inc. v. Apple Inc., the high-stakes challenge to the App Store by the makers of Fortnite, which ended in victory for Apple following a three-week trial.
Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated, where she secured a $4 billion summary judgment win for Apple in the lead-up to trial.
The Apple iPod iTunes Antitrust Litigation, a billion-dollar class action, where the team delivered a complete defense jury verdict.
Monster, LLC v. Beats Electronics, LLC, winning summary judgment for Beats on the eve of trial.
Oracle USA, Inc. v. Rimini Street, Inc., where she won trial victories in both 2015 and 2022 including a permanent injunction against Rimini over its copying of Oracle software;
ARM Ltd. v. Qualcomm Inc., where she secured a jury verdict for Qualcomm in a case worth tens of billions of dollars with far-reaching consequences for innovation and competition.
Plus, her credentials include:
- Assistant United States Attorney
- Associate White House Counsel
- Senate Communications Director
- House Press Secretary
Based her litigation successes, we should expect Dunn will take the lead in the litigation before Judge Chabbria and that she will likely be first chair if there is a trial.