Priya Sopori’s legal savvy and deep courtroom experience—both as an award-winning veteran federal prosecutor and in substantial private practice—enable her to provide clients with the skilled representation and counsel they need during high-stakes trial and crisis situations.

As a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California, she indicted some 45 cases, tried numerous multi-week jury trials, and successfully prosecuted federal sex crimes against women and children, white-collar fraud, and cybercrimes, obtaining convictions.

In private practice, Priya has extensive business litigation and trial experience involving intellectual property, copyright and trade-secret protection, licensing agreements for music and internet/television rights, international film financing and distribution, employer discrimination and sexual harassment, securities litigation, entertainment litigation, wrongful death, and white-collar crime.

In addition to her trial expertise, Priya regularly works with clients who represent investment funds, REITs, hospitality, hedge funds, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. She often acts as outside general counsel to clients by providing guidance on employment, responses to subpoenas, contractual, real estate, and intellectual property matters as well as assisting with SEC compliance concerns, including agency and/or government investigations.

Priya has won numerous defense verdicts, including a multimillion-dollar employment discrimination suit against a major insurer, and in suits against a successful developer, a noted Hollywood studio, and other high-profile clients. She has successfully litigated the seizure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash by the government and successfully negotiated settlements in favor of her clients. She has also successfully negotiated favorable settlements in several trademark, employment, and financial litigation matters, thereby protecting her clients from lengthy, expensive lawsuits.  She has also won countless motions for summary judgment against the government, and corporate and individual plaintiffs and defendants. Read more about her representative matters.

Priya frequently writes and comments on high-profile civil and criminal matters and has been featured in several media outlets, including Los Angeles Business Journal, Law360, Associated Press, NBC Los Angeles, and Daily Journal.