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Joseph Albert Yanny (born 1952) is an American civil and criminal trial lawyer, notable for his high-profile clientele and cases. He has represented clients on matters ranging from intellectual property and entertainment law issues to criminal RICO actions. Yanny is senior partner in the Century City, California firm of Yanny & Smith

Education
Yanny completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Dayton (B.Eng., 1975), from which he then obtained his law degree (J.D., 1978). He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1981.

Legal career
Principal law firm associations: Herzig and Yanny -- 1983 to 1990; Fischbach, Perlstein, Lieberman & Yanny -- 1990-1998; Yanny, Smith & Grieco -- 1998-2001; Yanny & Smith -- 2001 to present

Admitted to Practice:
 * State Bar of California
 * Registered Patent Attorney -- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Registration No. 29,459
 * U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern and Southern Districts of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
 * U.S. Supreme Court
 * U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
 * U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
 * U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Notable cases
Mr. Yanny was involved in a Paula Abdul's case where he defended Virgin Records against recording artist Yvette Marine allegation that Virgin Records improperly credit and paid her. Yvette Marine claimed she was credited as a background vocal, but she was actually a lead vocals. claiming she was entitled to royalty of over a millions dollar. Yvette never claimed Paula Abdul didn't singed her own vocal, but rather Yvette Marine was the "lead" vocal in the two songs, opposites attracts and I need You, in the Forever Your Girl album. Prior to this case there was no clear district of what is consider a "lead" vocals. The case was later used by congress to set the rule copyright for other made-for-hire workers beside just Vocalist.

Joseph has helped television personality Jesse James on numerous occasion from his divorce period to a lawsuit from a Clothes company called Fortunate Fashion Industries that Jesse was accused of stealing vital personnel which lead him to obtain a deal with Walmart.

Yanny defended the Vagos Motorcycle Club against the Empire Police Department, who claimed that the Vagos member were sending out threats. Later on, he prosecuted the Riverside County law enforcement on defamation and violation of civil rights for the Vagos.

Later he defended the Mongols Motorcycle Club against the Federal prosecutors who brought a criminal RICO action against The Mongols in an attempt to take the Mongol Nation's trademarks away. Prior to this case, a few Mongols members took plea deals, none were convicted, and the government is using those plea deal s to claimed that the mongols is a criminal organization In September 2015 Yanny obtained the dismissal of the indictment. During the process of the Trial, Lisa Ling was doing an insider interview of the Mongols club and the trial on CNN's

Joseph helped Cerveceria Modelo, the makers of Corona Extra beer, in several trademark disputes regarding the unlawful importation of "grey market goods and other company benefiting from using the Corona Name.