Caldwell Leslie | Robyn C. Crowther




Alastair J. Agcaoili Benjamin B. Au Linda M. Burrow Christopher G. Caldwell David C. Codell, Of Counsel Robyn C. Crowther Andrew Esbenshade Jeanne A. Fugate Albert Giang Jeffrey M. Hammer Arwen Johnson Aron Ketchel Lennette W. Lee Michael R. Leslie Joan Mack Alison Mackenzie Laurie Martindale Matthew W. O'Brien Heather Pearson Eric S. Pettit Michael J. Proctor Michael D. Roth Michael V Schafler Sandra L. Tholen David K. Willingham Tina Wong David Zaft	Robyn C. Crowther crowther@caldwell-leslie.com	"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." -Amelia Earhart




	Robyn Crowther relies on her creativity and persuasive skills to design and implement effective legal strategies for her clients. She enjoys the diversity of her civil litigation practice that includes matters in state and federal courts, institutional arbitration tribunals and other alternative dispute resolution forums. After clerking for the Hon. Gary L. Taylor on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Ms. Crowther joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as an associate in the litigation department. She left Gibson Dunn for Caldwell Leslie in 1998. Ms. Crowther has represented individuals, multinational corporations, municipalities and small businesses. Her practice covers a wide variety of substantive areas of the law, from entertainment and intellectual property disputes to legal malpractice matters, from real estate to employment disputes and too many others to specify. Ms. Crowther works with her clients to develop results-oriented strategies to bring matters to resolution as efficiently and effectively as possible. She has developed substantial experience in provisional and preliminary remedies, pleading attacks and motions for summary adjudication and summary judgment. From the outset of the case, however, Ms. Crowther positions the matter for trial and considers herself primarily a trial lawyer. Ms. Crowther brings her competitive spirit and strategic analysis to every matter she handles. Her litigation training began at the age of 12 when she participated in her first organized debate. Ms. Crowther developed her debating skills through her undergraduate years at UCLA. During the three years that Ms. Crowther debated for UCLA, the team finished first or second in the nation. Her interest in advocacy next led Ms. Crowther to law school at Georgetown, where her persuasive skills earned her the Howrey & Simon Award for Excellence in Advocacy for her work as a member of Georgetown's "Tournament of Champions" trial team. Ms. Crowther has been honored for three years as a "Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star" by the publishers of Los Angeles magazine and Law and Politics magazine and was included on the Daily Journal's list of the Top 75 Women Litigators in the State of California in 2008. Representative Cases Obtained a writ of supersedeas staying preliminary injunction on behalf of entrepenueurs challenging enforceability of non-competition clauses. Click here for article about dispute. Obtained summary judgment for Oscar®-winning actor Robert De Niro in a fraud lawsuit filed against him by Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. Click here for article. Obtained order sustaining demurrer without leave to amend on behalf of director and officer defendants in a corporate governance action. Obtained judgment on the pleadings for a top international law firm in a legal malpractice lawsuit. Obtained summary judgment in an idea theft case under California law arising out of the plaintiffs' claim that Caldwell Leslie's client misappropriated their idea for a television show (which became a popular network television series). Obtained summary disposition (similar to summary judgment) of claims asserted in arbitration proceeding for breach of contract and interference with potential economic relations in a dispute involving rights to a well-known television series and character. Obtained voluntary dismissal of individual producer client, and summary judgment on behalf of another individual producer client, in action for breach of contract, trademark and copyright infringement, transfer of ownership of Internet domain names, and claims for intentional interference with existing and prospective contracts in a dispute over rights associated with a syndicated television series. Obtained summary judgment for a group of doctors who were former members of a partnership in an action by a financing company to enforce a note signed by the partnership. Defended the judgment before the California Court of Appeal and collected attorneys' fees from the opposing party. Represented a partnership of doctors in an action based on a guarantee of certain obligations allegedly signed by the partnership. Filed a motion for summary judgment and obtained a very favorable settlement for our clients before the opposition to the motion was due. Education and Honors J.D. Georgetown University Law Center, 1996 magna cum laude Order of the Coif Articles Editor, Law and Policy in International Business Howrey & Simon Award for Excellence in Advocacy, 1996 Student Advocate, Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic B.A. University of California at Los Angeles, 1991 Clerkship Law Clerk to Honorable Gary L. Taylor, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1996-97 Professional Achievements Member, Executive Committee in Los Angeles County Bar Association's Litigation Section Member, California State Bar; U.S. District Court, Central District of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Member, American Bar Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association; Women's Law Association of Los Angeles; Joint Task Force on the Retention of Women in the Law Rising-Star, Law & Politics and Los Angeles Magazine, 2005, 2006 and 2007 Ms. Crowther's love of advocacy is second only to her love of her family. She and her husband live in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains and have three daughters, ages 11, 8 and 6.