Biography
RANDI SINGER is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP and focuses her practice on copyright, Lanham Act false advertising and trademark matters, litigating for and advising clients across numerous industries. Her advertising cases have spanned a very broad spectrum of products and services including prescription drugs and biologics, molecular diagnostic assays, over-the-counter drugs, razors, toothpaste, paint, pet food, chocolate, cosmetics, financial services, cell phone cases, luxury goods and consumer electronics. Randi has represented and counseled clients on a wide variety of copyright and trademark matters, encompassing classic ownership and fair use issues for works including comic books, academic works, reality television, music and photographs, as well as artificial intelligence, keyword advertising, online advertising and regulation, Section 230 issues, web scraping, and the intersection of privacy and intellectual property. She represented eBay in Tiffany v. eBay, the landmark case in secondary trademark liability, and is regularly called upon by major internet platforms for help navigating a complex array of secondary liability concerns.
Randi is consistently recognized by industry publications for her work in intellectual property and media and entertainment. She is ranked by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in New York for Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secrets (2009–2015, 2021–2023), and Media and Entertainment: Litigation where clients have noted that she is a “top-notch IP lawyer,” a “phenomenal, phenomenal lawyer” who “understands our business as we do, and sometimes better,” and that they “particularly appreciate Randi’s ability to not only identify legal risk, but then thoughtfully embrace, balance, and mitigate it” and her penchant for directing “practical business-focused advice to the questions presented.” In 2023, The National Law Journal named Randi a “Trailblazer” in Media & Advertising Law, an award distinguishing the top 12 nationwide “agents of change.” She is also recommended by The Legal 500 in Trademark Litigation, Copyright, Advertising & Marketing Litigation, and Media and Entertainment Litigation, where clients have called her “highly responsive, direct, and super smart.” Randi is ranked by WTR 1000 as a leading trademark litigator for Enforcement and Litigation, in which they describe her as a “professional firefighter who has a talent for making problems go away quickly,” who “employs a bit of magic to aggressively advocate for her client while not alienating her opposing counsel,” and who excels at “unravelling complex trademark problems and developing strategies to overcome them.” In 2021, she was shortlisted for the “New York Practitioner of the Year” award for Managing IP’s Americas Awards and, in 2020, she was named a BTI “Client Service All-Star.” Randi has been honored in Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards: for the 2023 “Trademark Lawyer of the Year” award (winner), for the 2021 “Best in Media & Entertainment” award (winner), and for the 2020 “Best in Trademark” award (shortlisted). She also has been recognized in Benchmark Litigation, Expert Guides, Managing IP magazine’s IP Stars (most recently as a Copyright Star and a Trademark Star in 2023), Super Lawyers, and Law360.
Randi also regularly advises clients in connection with privacy, cybersecurity, and social media issues. Randi is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (U.S.) and was recognized by The National Law Journal as one of its inaugural “Trailblazers” nationwide for her cutting-edge work in the cybersecurity and data privacy area in 2015.
Randi is frequently engaged to speak on panels and in discussions concerning copyright, advertising, and other intellectual property issues for organizations, such as the International Trademark Association (INTA), The Copyright Society, the National Advertising Division, the Practising Law Institute, the American Conference Institute, and the New York State Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section.
Randi is an active proponent of advancement of women in the legal profession, and was inducted into the YCA’s Academy of Women Leaders.
Prior to joining Sidley, Randi was head of the Privacy & Cybersecurity group and partner in the Intellectual Property & Media practice at another global law firm, splitting her time between Silicon Valley and New York.