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Alyson Tocicki is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Trial Strategies practice group. Alyson handles high-profile and complex litigation matters across the country, with a particular emphasis on product liability, false advertising, and intellectual property disputes.

Alyson has experience representing clients at all stages of litigation, including drafting complaints, briefing dispositive motions, coordinating discovery, preparing for key fact and expert witness depositions, developing case themes for trial, and obtaining favorable outcomes for her clients at mediation. Her experience also spans a wide array of industries, such as media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, professional sports, and consumer products.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Alyson earned her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where she served as a Managing Editor of the UCLA Law Review and President of the Student Bar Association. While at UCLA, Alyson was a legal writing advisor to first-year students and received the Masin Family Academic Excellence Gold Award for the highest grade in Negotiation Theory & Practice. Alyson also worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Robert N. Kwan in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Alyson was a summer associate in Proskauer’s Los Angeles office before joining the firm full-time.

The United States Supreme Court, in Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., a recent 6-3 decision, found that innocent legal errors in copyright applications do not preclude copyright holders from taking advantage of the safe harbor provision of the Copyright Act, which protects registrants from having their copyrights invalidated due to inadvertent errors.  The Court’s ruling therefore made clear that such errors in copyright applications—including both mistakes of law and mistakes of fact—will rarely be the basis for invalidation.

The prosecution of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the infamous healthcare and life sciences company, Theranos, Inc., has sparked media attention around the country. With just a few months before trial is slated to begin, Holmes recently lost her pretrial battle over whether the attorney-client privilege precludes the introduction of certain emails with counsel.  While the emails at issue remain sealed from public view, related filings and hearings indicate Holmes and lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP (“BSF”) attempted to prevent the Wall Street Journal from exposing the startup’s impending collapse.