Vera Serova

Associate
Fax 310-553-0687

Biography

Vera is a passionate litigator with experience in speech and entertainment-related matters, consumer claims, and business and real estate disputes.

Vera represents the firm’s clients in various litigation matters, including shareholder disputes, joint venture disputes, investor disputes, business torts, and real estate landlord/tenant and buyer/seller disputes.

She has represented talent, producers, content creators, and product manufacturers in entertainment, copyright, and trademark-related litigation. She has substantial experience in First Amendment issues and disputes arising from speech and has both prepared winning anti-SLAPP motions and successfully overcome anti-SLAPP defenses.

Vera has also prosecuted and defended against a variety of consumer fraud, false advertising, and Consumer Legal Remedies Act claims and advised clients on the optimal resolution of such matters from the perspectives of both case economics and long-term business ramifications.

Before joining the firm, Vera brought a music-related consumer fraud class action which, after 8 years of litigation, resulted in a California Supreme Court victory.

In her spare time, Vera provides pro bono services to Ukrainian refugees resettling in the United States. She serves as a regulatory liaison and advocate for Ukrainians with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and handles administrative appeals helping refugees secure public benefits and in-state tuition in colleges.

Vera came into law after more than a decade in the IT industry, in Silicon Valley and abroad, where she facilitated the development and implementation of hi-tech software.

Charitable & Civic Involvement

  • Volunteer and Regulatory Liaison at Nova Ukraine’s Refugee Support Project
  • Regulatory Liaison at Ukraine Immigration Task Force

Bar Admissions

  • California

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles School of Law  (J.D., 2019)
    • 2-time Masin Family Academic Excellence Gold Award winner in Copyright and Music Law
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University  (B.S., 2005)
    • Physics and Applied Mathematics