ANTHONY N. LUTI

Member

J.D., Howard University (cum laude)
M.B.A., Howard University (Beta Gamma Sigma)
B.B.A., Simon Fraser University

Email: tony@lutilaw.com

Anthony Luti is the founding member of the Firm. Mr. Luti's litigation practice is multi-faceted, encompassing intellectual property, libel and slander defamation, civil rights, wage and hour class actions, employment discrimination, Title VII, securities and business litigation.

Prior to founding The Luti Law Firm, Mr. Luti was associated with Latham & Watkins. While at Latham, Mr. Luti represented municipal clients against Title VII adverse impact challenges to police office and firefighter hiring practices. He has also represented a major clothing retailer in the successful dismissal of multi-plaintiff wage and hour litigation involving allegations of sweatshop manufacturing.

Mr. Luti has been on the forefront of moral rights intellectual property litigation and litigation regarding the interpretation of California's anti-SLAPP statute when a clothing retailer filed a defamation suit based on false sweatshop allegations.

Mr. Luti has federal appellate and jury trial experience, including first chairing a federal jury trial alleging constitutional rights violations against the City of Los Angeles and members of the Los Angeles Police Department. Mr. Luti has also conducted the expert witness direct examinations in the successful representation of an unaccompanied refugee child seeking asylum in the United States.

Additionally, Mr. Luti is actively involved in his community. He currently serves as the vice-president of the Association of African-American Attorneys in Downtown Firms (AAADF). He also sits on the Board of Directors of the HUEMAN Foundation, an organization dedicated to the empowerment of people of color.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Luti served as a law clerk to the Honorable Wiley Y. Daniel in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

While at Howard University, Mr. Luti published his student note, and served as Executive Publications Editor for the Howard Law Journal. He has also published articles in the Los Angeles Daily Journal and Mondaq.com.

Mr. Luti is admitted to practice in the California state courts, the United States District Courts for the Central District of California and the District of Colorado, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits.