Jennifer Bryant

Jennifer L. Bryant is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson. She has experience litigating cases at all stages, including taking and defending depositions, leading factual investigations, writing dispositive motions, managing all aspects of discovery and cross-examining witnesses at trial.

Representative Matters:

• FX Networks and Pacific 2.1 Entertainment Group in obtaining dismissal under California’s anti-SLAPP statute of a defamation lawsuit brought by actress Olivia de Havilland involving the program “Feud: Bette and Joan.”
• Ten-X, an online real estate marketplace, in obtaining a preliminary injunction followed by a $1.6 million settlement, a public apology and certain ongoing restrictions in its lawsuit against Commercial Real Estate Exchange (CREXi) and its CEO alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and trade secret misappropriation.
• SoundExchange on behalf of the record companies and recording artists in a Copyright Royalty Board proceeding to set statutory royalty rates owed by webcasters for non-interactive music streaming in the United States through the year 2020.
• Cozen O’Connor in obtaining dismissal of a purported $900 million class action against its client and co-defendant Full Tilt Poker alleging the website engaged in fraudulent practices and violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Ms. Bryant also has an active pro bono practice. With co-counsel at Lambda Legal, she represented a transgender veteran in obtaining a permanent injunction barring a local barbershop that had denied service from engaging in further discrimination based on sex.

Prior to joining Munger Tolles, Ms. Bryant served as a law clerk for Chief Judge George H. King of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Before entering law school, Ms. Bryant was an adjunct writing instructor at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon and wrote for Flagpole Magazine in Athens, Georgia.

Ms. Bryant received her law degree from the USC Gould School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as senior editor of the Southern California Law Review. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in English, magna cum laude, and earned her master’s in English at Indiana University.

Education:

• USC Gould School of Law (J.D., 2013) Order of the Coif; senior editor, Southern California Law Review
• Indiana University (M.A., 2007)
• University of Georgia (B.A., magna cum laude, 2004)

Clerkships :

• Chief Judge George H. King, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2013-2014

Bar Admissions : California