Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Trademarks: Litigation; Copyright; Media and Entertainment: Litigation; Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing); Transport: Aviation and Air Travel: Litigation and Regulation

Claudia Ray is a partner in Kirkland’s New York office and a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. She represents clients across a wide range of industries, including financial services, technology, consumer products, and entertainment and media, in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving copyright, trademark, Internet, contract/licensing, and trade secret issues. Claudia also advises clients on pre-litigation issues, IP issues arising out of corporate transactions and licensing matters, and overall IP protection and brand-building strategies, including the registration, maintenance and policing of their trademark and copyright portfolios.

Music Committee, Copyright Society

American Bar Association, AI Task Force, Risk Management

Advisory Board Co-founder, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, New York University Law School

Intellectual Property/Technology Advisory Committee, American Arbitration Association

Copyright Committee, New York City Bar Association (former Chair, Copyright Law Committee and Trademarks and Unfair Competition Committee)

Amicus Committee (US Amicus Subcommittee), International Trademark Association (former Chair, TTAB Task Force, U.S. Subcommittee, Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee)

Trademarks and the Internet Committee and Special Committee on Copyright and New Technologies; Intellectual Property Committee, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association

New York State Bar Association

New York University School of Law, J.D., 1992

Macalester College, B.A., Economics & Business, magna cum laude, 1989