Alston & Bird Kicked Off California Copyright Case Over Conflict

Feb. 14, 2024, 4:22 PM UTC

Alston & Bird LLP has been sidelined in a copyright spat between the owner of the My Perfect Resume website, Bold Limited, and rival site operator Rocket Resume Inc.

Lawyers in the firm’s intellectual property practice group had been representing Rocket, which is defending against Bold’s claims it copied from the My Perform Resume site in a suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. But that representation ended as Judge Beth Labson Freeman disqualified the firm due to its prior representation of Bold in IP matters over a four-year period from 2013 to 2017.

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