Priscilla Szeto is Senior Counsel with Ellis George LLP and is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including class action and high stakes business disputes. Priscilla has significant experience litigating in state and federal courts, and has obtained early dismissals for clients through dispositive motion practice and creative problem-solving.
Priscilla has represented technology companies, automotive manufacturers, top universities, major financial institutions, and corporate clients from a wide range of industries—including energy, pharmaceutical, personal care, fast food, and food packaging—in pre-litigation conflicts and commercial litigation involving consumer protection, antitrust, trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, breach of fiduciary duties, breach of contract, fraud, labor and employment, unfair competition, and other statutory violation claims. She has successfully obtained complete dismissals in the pleadings and summary judgment stages, negotiated stringent protections in high profile matters, and was the lead, case managing associate in a six-week trial that resulted in a full defense verdict and recovery of costs for a multinational corporate client. Prior to joining Ellis George LLP, Priscilla was a commercial litigator in the Los Angeles office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
Representative Matters
Though all cases vary and none is predictive, Priscilla’s experience includes:
- Serving as lead counsel on appellate matters for a financial services client in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Courts of Appeal at an international law firm
- Successfully obtaining a full dismissal at the summary judgment stage, and recovering attorneys’ fees and costs, for a technology company client in a putative class action matter
- Successfully obtaining injunctive relief for a technology company client in a trade secrets misappropriation matter
- Successfully obtaining injunctive relief in a trademark infringement dispute on behalf of a not-for-profit membership corporation and nationally-recognized standards-maker in the energy industry
- Successfully obtaining a half-million dollar judgment on a contractual indemnity claim based on disputed interpretations of substantive New York contract law
- Representing various multinational corporations in nationwide putative class action matters
- Representing individual plaintiffs in putative class action and other complex litigation matters at a Plaintiff-side boutique firm
Practice Areas
- Complex Commercial Litigation
- Class Action
- Trade Secret Misappropriation
- Trademark Infringement
- Breach of Contract
- Unfair Competition
- Fraud
- Antitrust
- Labor and Employment
Education
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, J.D., 2015
Editor-in-Chief, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review (Vol. 37); Recipient of the Otto Kaus Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship - University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., 2012
Dean’s Honor
Bar Admissions
- California
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
