Primary Job Title Counsel Primary Organization 
Irell & Manella
Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
David Nimmer is of counsel to Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles, California. He also serves as Professor from Practice at UCLA School of Law and Distinguished Scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. In 2000, he was elected to the American Law Institute.
Since 1985, Prof. Nimmer has authored and updated Nimmer on Copyright, the
standard reference treatise in the field, first published in 1963 by his late father, Professor Melville B. Nimmer. The U.S. Supreme Court has cited Nimmer on Copyright on numerous occasions, as has every federal appellate court, countless district and state courts, as well as courts confronting copyright cases in countries across the globe.
