Raymond LaMagna is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Irell & Manella LLP and a member of the firm's litigation and intellectual property groups.  His practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property litigation, and his current representative matters range from advising biotechnology companies in complex patent litigation to counseling video game and entertainment companies on trademark issues.

While in law school, Mr. LaMagna was the articles editor of the Southern California Law Review and a USC Merit Scholar.  He graduated Order of the Coif and received the James C. Holbrook Award.  The Los Angeles Copyright Society also honored him with the Peter D. Knecht Memorial Award for excellence in the fields of contract, entertainment, and copyright law.

Additionally, Mr. LaMagna has been recognized for his scholarship on the origins of the Confrontation Clause.  He co-authored an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in Davis v. Washington and Hammond v. Indiana and continues to write on the common-law sources of modern Sixth Amendment protections.

Mr. LaMagna authored "(Re)Constitutionalizing Confrontation: Reexamining Unavailability and the Value of Live Testimony," 79 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1499 (2006) and co-authored "California Fog: The Golden State's Long-Arm Approach to 'Quasi-California' Corporations Leaves Companies and Investors in a State of Uncertainty," published in The Deal, October 17, 2005 (with Eva H. Davis).

Mr. LaMagna had the honor of serving as a judicial extern to the Honorable Candace Cooper of the California Courts of Appeal for the Second District. 

Bar Admissions

• 2006, California