Juliana C. Ferraz

Juliana C. Ferraz is Senior Counsel in the Orange County office of GRSM practicing in the area of intellectual property. She handles cases involving patents and trademarks, including false advertising, false designation of origin, trademark counterfeiting, trade secret, and unfair competition claims under the Lanham Act, the related Digital Millennium Act, California Business and Professions Code Section 17200 (unfair competition) et seq. and 17500, copyrights, and misappropriation, customs seizures and international trade. Juliana also has significant experience with products liability, complex torts, and premises liability. She has represented national clients in state and federal actions through all phases of court proceedings.

Juliana further represents hospitality, corporate, and individual clients. On a daily basis she handles hundreds of landlord-side real estate matters involving commercial and residential properties. She regularly manages tenant disputes as well as lease and contract negotiations. Representative matters include new tenant move-ins, lease amendments, enforcement of lease provisions, lease termination agreements, temporary relocation agreements, and tenant relocations. Juliana handles issues related to tenant claims of uninhabitability, tenant accommodations, tenant subleases, insurance (property, general liability and professional liability) policy analysis, nuisance, and start-to-finish eviction proceedings throughout Southern California (beginning with preparing required notices, filing of unlawful detainer complaints, handling trial or negotiating a settlement, through Sheriff’s instructions and lock out).

In addition, Juliana represents hoteliers in several matters from evictions to premises liability claims.

Before joining the firm, Juliana worked as a deputy district attorney in Ventura County, CA. Working in the misdemeanor unit, she handled several motions to suppress evidence hearings, jury trials, and bench trials.

Juliana practiced law in Sao Paulo, Brazil, before beginning her legal career in the U.S. She is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.

Admissions

• California
• U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California

Memberships

• Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil – OAB (Brazilian Bar Association)

Community Involvement

• Attorney Volunteer for Neighborhood Legal Services ministering Chapter 7 Bankruptcy seminars at the Woodland Hills Bankruptcy Court.

Representative Experience

• Etereo Spirits, LLC et al. v. James R. Ling and Etereo Spirits, LLC, Central District of California, 8:21-cv-00302-JVS-KES. Represented Defendant in a copyright, trademark infringement and unfair competition matter.
• Wsylax, LLC v. True Lacrosse, LLC, Central District of California, 2:21-cv-9880-ODW-AFM. Represented Defendant in a trademark infringement and unfair competition matter.
• Nestle USA v. Wells International, Central District of California, 2:19-cv-4607-CJC-AFM. Represented the defendant in a trademark infringement and unfair competition matter.
• Charles Jones v. Amicizia Events, Central District of California, 2:19-cv-08181-DMG-ASx. Represented the defendant in copyright infringement action.
• Verragio, Ltd. V. Gonshor Fine Jewelry, Central District of California, 2:20-cv-00273-DSF-SS. Represented the defendant in copyright infringement action.
• CSTECH US v. Earth Animal, Southern District of California, 3:19-cv-02274-AJB-MSB. Represented the plaintiff in a trademark, false designation, false advertising and unfair competition matter.

Education

LL.M., cum laude, Florida Coastal School of Law - 2012

LL.B., Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2002

• Spanish
• Portuguese