About
A firm built for one kind of problem
Westbridge & Cole LLP exists because the market for content enforcement splits into two poor options: automated takedown services with no legal judgment behind them, and general-practice firms for which a § 512 notice is an occasional novelty. We built the third option — a law practice where online content protection is the entire job.
Why this practice
The economics of online infringement changed. Creators now run businesses whose entire inventory is digital — courses, photography, video, subscription content — and that inventory can be copied and re-sold in an afternoon by someone who never expects to be found. Media companies face the same problem at scale. Individuals face a darker version of it when private material leaks.
The legal tools to fight back are real but technical: notice-and-takedown under 17 U.S.C. § 512, the registration prerequisites that unlock statutory damages, § 512(h) subpoenas and John Doe discovery, state privacy statutes, and the practical leverage of a site's own infrastructure. Used casually, they underperform. Used precisely and in sequence, they work. The firm was founded to use them precisely.
The firm represents rights holders — and, because credibility requires consistency, it also represents people on the wrong end of abusive takedowns. Understanding both sides of § 512 is part of why our notices get acted on.
How we work
Precision over volume
A takedown notice is a legal instrument signed under penalty of perjury, not marketing mail. We send fewer, better notices — drafted to be acted on, and defensible if challenged under § 512(f).
Candor at intake
Some problems the law can solve quickly; some it can solve slowly and expensively; a few it cannot reach at all. Clients get that assessment at the first conversation, before any fee is incurred.
Discretion
Many of our clients come to us at the worst week of their professional lives. Matters are staffed by attorneys, handled confidentially, and structured to minimize public exposure of the client wherever the law allows.
Proportion
Enforcement should cost less than what it protects. We scope engagements against the value at stake and recommend against work that doesn't serve the client's actual goal.
Where we practice
The firm's attorneys are licensed in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, and appear in the federal courts listed on each attorney's profile. Because copyright is federal law, much of the firm's core work — takedown campaigns, § 512(h) subpoenas, federal infringement litigation — serves clients nationwide.
For matters governed by the law of a state where we are not admitted, we associate local counsel or seek admission pro hac vice, and we tell you which at the outset. We do not quietly practice where we are not licensed.