Experience
Legal Expertise
Audrey Adu-Appiah is a member of MSK's litigation practice. She has represented media, entertainment, fashion, technology, consumer goods, and pharmaceutical companies in disputes involving virtually all types of intellectual property—including copyrights, trademarks, utility and design patents, and trade secrets. She has also litigated on behalf of leading music publishers, newspapers, and magazines in high-stakes copyright litigation involving artificial intelligence.
Audrey clerked for Judge Cornelia T.L. Pillard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, where she served as Notes Editor of the Harvard Law Review and worked as a student attorney for the Recording Artists Project and the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Before attending law school, she worked as a video editor and producer.
Professional, Business and civic Affiliations
Member, Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee, The Copyright Society
Other Career Experience
Litigation Associate, Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP (2023 - 2026)
Litigation Associate, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C. (2021 - 2022)
Litigation Associate, Covington & Burling LLP (2018 - 2020)
Headlines
Publications
The Video Privacy Protection Act as a Model Intellectual Privacy Statute, 131 HARV. L. REV. 1766 (2018)
Recent Case—Detroit Free Press, Inc. v. United States Department of Justice, 130 HARV. L. REV. 1016 (2017)
Practice Areas
Admissions
- New York
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
Clerkships
- The Honorable Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2022 - 2021)
- The Honorable Cornelia T.L. Pillard, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (2022 - 2023)
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude
- Notes Editor, Harvard Law Review
- Symposium Editor, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology
Duke University, B.A. with Highest Distinction in English and Political Science
- Alice M. Baldwin Scholar
- Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Fiction