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Developing innovative pricing structures and alternative fee agreement models that deliver additional value for our clients.
Advancing professional knowledge and offering credits for attorneys, staff and other professionals.
Helping clients respond correctly when a crisis occurs.
Providing our clients with legal, strategic, and practical advice to make transformational changes in their organizations.
Leveraging law and technology to deliver sound solutions.
Delivering seamless service through partnerships across the globe.
Leveraging leading-edge technology to guide change and create seamless, collaborative experiences for clients and attorneys.
Industry-leading conferences focused on affordable housing, tax credits, and more.
Providing actionable information to support strategic decision-making.
Teaming with clients to advance sustainable projects, mitigate the effects of climate change, and protect our planet.
Offering a range of investment management and fiduciary services.
Bringing together companies and investors for tomorrow’s new deals.
Offering fresh insights on cases that are delayed, over budget, or off-target from the desired resolution.
Courtroom-ready lawyers who can resolve disputes early on clients’ terms or prevail at trial before a judge or jury.
Creating positive impact in our communities through increasing equity, access, and opportunity.
Ryan Duckett serves as counsel to entertainment and media companies and high-profile individuals, defending their interests on a local, regional and worldwide scale. As a trusted business advisor, Ryan represents clients in high-stakes and bet-the-company business disputes, commercial real estate litigation and partnership and shareholder dissolutions. He is laser-focused on clients’ interests, executing tailored strategies on their behalf to reach favorable outcomes.
I help entertainment and media businesses, major corporations and high-net-worth individuals, such as musical artists, producers, cutting-edge creatives, entrepreneurs and technology innovators, with strategic planning, trade secrets and other intellectual property protection, innovative growth techniques, risk management and market control. My engineering background helps me understand my clients’ passion for innovation and their commitment to protecting their work.
My practice primarily focuses on complex commercial disputes representing clients across a broad spectrum of industries in all phases of litigation. I am well versed on structuring protective covenants to best protect both the companies’ and the creators’ interests. I litigate a variety of cases from breach of licensing or distribution agreements, to unfair business practices and shareholder derivative suits. I also find myself representing claimants and counter-claimants on a variety of patent, trademark and copyright litigation disputes. I supervise and participate in every phase of a matter from advising, demands and pre-litigation disputes, to law and motion, discovery, trials, arbitrations and mediation, as well as post-trial motions and appeals.
I wear the hat of an outside general counsel for many clients by working closely with each client to quickly find cost efficient solutions while reducing risks and maximizing results. All business owners, startup founders, and creators need to protect what they have built. For years, I have provided clients with business formation, compliance, litigation, partnership disputes and intellectual property counsel to safeguard their privacy and proprietary information confidential.
In addition to my business practice, I am passionate about the Los Angeles business landscape and the economic development of the City. As a result, in 2019, I was appointed by Mayor Garcetti as a Los Angeles City Commissioner for Restaurants & Beverages and Nightlife & Entertainment and recently elected as Counsel to the Los Angeles Unified School District, and serve Chairman of the LA City Commission. In addition to these appointments, I sit on the board for various worldwide virtual reality and augmented reality organizations.
I represent clients in the construction and real estate development industry in contract negotiations, project counseling and dispute resolution. I represent owners and contractors from the inception of a project. I help them identify and reduce risk factors and maximize opportunities through contract drafting and negotiation as well as proactive counseling. When disputes arise, I provide counsel to clients, both during and after construction, to address project delays, change orders, differing site conditions and contract disputes.
A close watch on evolving legal issues and trends affecting the entertainment, aerospace, medical, and educational industries is more important than ever as entities in those industries look to achieve goals and protect work.
California
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D.
Cornell University, B.A.
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