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RIAA Counsel Appointed Appellate Judge
Richard L. Gabriel, the lead attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its copyright-infringement suits against individuals over the file-sharing of music, has been appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals. Gabriel, a partner and chairman of the intellectual property practice group at Denver-based Holme, Roberts & Owen, will take the official judgeship post on July 1. (An interview with Gabriel on the RIAA's file-sharing litigations appeared in the December 2007 issue of Entertainment Law & Finance.)
'It's been a long-time goal of mine to become a judge someday,' said Gabriel, who joined Holme, Roberts & Owen in 1990. For more than two years, Holme, Roberts & Owen has served as the RIAA's national counsel for copyright-infringement litigation against individuals, including students at colleges and universities.
In October 2007, Gabriel obtained a $222,000 verdict against a Minnesota woman in the first of the RIAA's copyright-infringement cases to go to trial against an individual. Gabriel said the same team of lawyers at Holme, Roberts & Owen who have been working with him on the RIAA cases will continue to spearhead those efforts. Those lawyers include partners Timothy Reynolds and Donald Kelso, as well as Eve Burton and Katheryn Coggon, who are senior counsel. All are in Colorado.
Amanda Bronstad is a Staff Reporter for The National Law Journal, an ALM affiliate publication of Entertainment Law & Finance.
Richard L. Gabriel, the lead attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its copyright-infringement suits against individuals over the file-sharing of music, has been appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals. Gabriel, a partner and chairman of the intellectual property practice group at Denver-based
'It's been a long-time goal of mine to become a judge someday,' said Gabriel, who joined
In October 2007, Gabriel obtained a $222,000 verdict against a Minnesota woman in the first of the RIAA's copyright-infringement cases to go to trial against an individual. Gabriel said the same team of lawyers at
Amanda Bronstad is a Staff Reporter for The National Law Journal, an ALM affiliate publication of Entertainment Law & Finance.
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