Kristina Fernandez Mabrie is an experienced complex commercial litigator, strategic advisor, and crisis manager who regularly represents high-profile clients, including Fortune 100 and 500 companies across the hospitality, health, fitness, sports, media, and entertainment industries. Kristina also counsels emerging businesses and entrepreneurs, entertainment studios and executives, sports teams, leagues, athletes, municipalities, and non-profit organizations in their most novel issues and complex disputes. Kristina regularly handles high-profile matters involving right of publicity (name, image, and likeness), defamation and libel, trademark and copyright infringement, breach of contract, fraud, false advertising, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, cyber hacking, conversion, and employment-related issues. Kristina also has experience conducting sensitive internal investigations and designing regulatory compliance strategies.
Kristina is experienced in solving complicated problems in high-profile settings. Kristina has developed the litigation, public policy, and communications skills to manage disputes and urgent crises discretely, holistically, and creatively. Kristina focuses on preventing disruptive conflicts before they occur and efficiently solving any when they do. Kristina is skilled at collaborating with her clients to correct problems to further the client's long-term objectives in an integrated and efficient way that minimizes prospective harm. Along these lines, Kristina effectively collaborates with her clients' public relations teams and the media when needed. Kristina's clients commonly rely on her to advise on both novel legal questions that arise and day-to-day operational needs, including intellectual property, domain name, and right of publicity issues, labor and employment matters, internal and external investigations, governance issues, emerging developments in the law, and industry trends, among other things.
Before joining DLA, Kristina worked as an associate with a global law firm, focusing on issues in complex and business litigation, racial justice and equity, labor and employment, and sports law.
Kristina also served as a judicial extern for The Honorable Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where she worked on various appellate cases. Before her legal career, Mrs. Fernandez Mabrie gained legal experience as a litigation paralegal. Before that, she gained valuable sports and entertainment industry knowledge while working for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
