Managing Partner

1900 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90067

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Kalpana Srinivasan tries high-stakes cases for plaintiffs and defendants in courtrooms across the country. The firm’s co-managing partner and a perennial member of the firm’s Executive Committee, she has secured significant victories for her clients in antitrust, patent, trade secret, copyright, class action, media and other disputes.

In 2023 and 2024, Ms. Srinivsaan served as lead counsel and first chair to clients in multiple trials and arbitrations spanning over several months from Jacksonville to Delaware to Waco, Texas and in her home state of California. During this time, she achieved the following results for her clients:

-  A $65.7 million jury verdict for Paltalk after a patent trial against Cisco Ms. Srinivasan has represented Paltalk for nearly 20 years and this is the second case she has brought to trial on the company’s behalf prosecuting its patents.
-  A courtroom victory after 3 weeks of trial in the NFL Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation with a jury finding the NFL engaged in a conspiracy and violated the antitrust laws through its Sunday Ticket offering. The jury awarded $4.7 billion damages, which the trial court vacated on a post-trial motion, while leaving untouched the jury’s determination that the NFL violated two different provisions of the Sherman Act. Proceedings in the matter are ongoing.
-  An arbitration award of nearly $160 million on behalf of mortgage servicing technology company Black Knight based on former customer PennyMac’s “rampant” misuse of confidential information unearthed by the Susman Godfrey team. The award followed nearly two months of arbitration in Jacksonville, Florida and lengthy state court proceedings.
-  As court-appointed interim co-lead counsel to plaintiffs in In re: Telescopes Antitrust Litigation, a deal worth $32 million to settle claims of conspiracy to fix prices and allocate markets for telescopes sold to consumers in the United States.
-  As lead trial counsel to Intercontinental Exchange, successful navigation of challenges by the Federal Trade Commission to clear the way for a $11.7 billion deal allowing ICE to buy Black Knight Inc.
-  Resolution of patent infringement claims involving Caltech’s seminal Wi-Fi patents against Samsung’s mobile devices reaching a resolution two days before the final pretrial conference.
-  An $18.8 million settlement on behalf of Pascal Metrics with defendant, Health Catalyst, for taking and using Pascal’s algorithmic triggers used to monitor patient safety.

Ms. Srinivasan has been described as an “engaging, exceptionally smart and approachable lawyer” by Chambers USA; deemed a Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar by Law360; and recognized by Benchmark Litigation as its California Intellectual Property Litigation Attorney of the Year, Plaintiff Attorney of the Year, Trial Lawyer of the Year in California and one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America. The Legal 500, in its Tier 1 rankings, described her work at “the intersection of intellectual property and unfair competition, all the while displaying strong know-how of the technology industry.”

Updated Oct 2025

  • Federal Trade Commission v. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) and Black Knight, Inc. (N.D. Cal./Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Served as lead trial counsel for ICE in injunctive proceedings brought by the FTC in federal court in California and in an administrative hearing in the FTC related to ICE’s $11.7 billion proposed acquisition of Black Knight. The FTC dismissed its injunction before the parties then reached a consent order.

  • In re Sunday Ticket (C.D. Cal) Following three-week jury trial, obtained with Susman Godfrey team a finding the NFL engaged in a conspiracy and violated the antitrust laws through its Sunday Ticket offering. The jury-awarded damages amount was vacated by the trial court on a post-trial motion, but the court left untouched the jury’s determination that the NFL violated two different provisions of the Sherman Act. Proceedings in the matter are ongoing.

  • Paltalk v. Cisco (W.D. Tex.) Won a $65.7 million jury verdict on behalf of Paltalk Holdings, a global communications software innovator, in a patent infringement lawsuit against Cisco Systems for Webex’s audio server technology.

  • Black Knight v. PennyMac (Fla. Arbitration). Obtained an arbitration award, confirmed by a state court judgment, of nearly $160 million on behalf of client mortgage servicing technology company Black Knight based on former customer PennyMac’s misuse of confidential information. The award followed nearly two months of arbitration in Jacksonville, Florida. The arbitrator also awarded no damages to PennyMac on its antitrust counterclaims against black Knight.

  • KSFB Management, LLC v. Focus Financial Partners, LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (Los Angeles S. Ct.). Representing Focus Financial Partners – which partners with various independent, wealth management firms — in lawsuits brought by KSFB.  Successfully defended Focus against New York law claims, obtaining a full dismissal state court.

  • Appellate
  • Arbitration
  • Class action
  • Commercial
  • Commercial disputes
  • Dispute resolution
  • Entertainment
  • Intellectual property
  • Plaintiff
  • Privacy

  • J.S. - Stanford Law School    
  • B.A. - Yale University    
  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Board of Directors and Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, invitation only legal association that limits Fellowship to 500 active trial lawyers from the United States.    
  • Member, Senator Alex Padilla’s Judicial Evaluation Commission for the Central District of California.    
  • Advisory Forum, Stanford Law School’s Rhode Center on the Legal Profession .   
  • Former Commissioner, Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission of the California State Bar, which vets the governor’s potential judicial candidates.    
  • Former Vice-President, Western Justice Center, an organization of judges, lawyers and civic leaders that promote conflict resolution skills among youth, educators, schools, and community partners.    
  • Former Board Member, California ChangeLawyers, which aims to promote access to justice for underrepresented communities in California.    
  • Executive Board Member, South Asian Bar Association of North America and of Southern California    .
  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation.

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