Molly M. Lens

Molly uses her technical knowledge and effective communication skills to successfully represent and defend her clients in extremely critical and complex matters. She develops practical strategies to help her clients navigate and overcome legal hurdles while minimizing their impact on business operations.

Prior to joining O’Melveny, Molly worked as a litigation associate in New York at a leading international law firm.

• Obtained dismissal for Fox Broadcasting, FremantleMedia, CORE Media Group, and others of a putative class action complaint brought by former African-American male contestants who had been disqualified from American Idol
• Obtained favorable settlement for Warner Bros. and The CW Network in a “vertical integration claim” relating to Smallville
• Successfully mediated claims that Sundance Institute had tortuously interfered with third party’s contract for the film festival
• Successfully defended a major motion picture company in intellectual property and contract action involving the rights to a crown-jewel property 
• Represented a major media entertainment company in profit participation action involving the syndication of a sitcom 
• Advised a motion picture company in preproduction disputes with the producers, directors, and writers, allowing successful sequel film to be completed and released
• Represented a leading software provider in trade secret and antitrust action 
• Represented a major clothing retailer in class action resulting from company's announcement that it had reached an agreement to be acquired by two private equity companies 
• Represented a prominent private equity company in class actions resulting from its planned acquisition of a company in the healthcare industry 
• Represented a major investment bank in federal court against allegations that client assisted, through its role as foreign exchange prime broker, a rogue trader who accumulated more than a half billion dollars in unreported losses 
• Represented a regional bank against allegations of trademark infringement over new name resulting from rebranding due to multiple mergers 
• Represented several investment vehicles in appeals involving tort and contract claims relating to a Ponzi scheme 
• Represented a foreign private investment fund in a Chapter 15 bankruptcy proceeding 
• Represented a preeminent technology company in litigation related to a dispute between target company and former employee of target 
• Represented a New York limited liability company against fraudulent conveyance claims from a former member 
• Represented an insurance company in multiple arbitrations concerning an NBA player's insurance coverage 
• Represented a major investment bank in "stuffing" investigation (allegations that investment advisory arm of company was improperly influenced by investment banking arm) by the Securities and Exchange Commission 
• Advised a major investment bank about litigation exposure resulting from contemplated acquisition 
• Advised a private equity firm on its rights should it receive anticipated requests to restructure lending commitments for planned acquisitions during 2007 credit crisis 
• Advised a foreign corporation on how to avoid litigation when withdrawing from planned transaction 
• Represented several not-for-profit associations of lawyers in filing of amicus brief before Second Circuit in support of district court's ruling in United States v. Stein 
• Represented a single mother and her two minor children living in New York City Public Housing in housing court 
• Represented a young man from Chad in asylum court in New Jersey who fled his home country due to persecution resulting from his political beliefs 
• Represented an individual convicted of several counts of a controlled substance in his appeal 
• Represented an individual alleging Eighth Amendment violations after he was housed with a known member of a rival gang in his appeal before the Ninth Circuit