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A joint trial team at Davis Wright Tremaine and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr helped Apple and director M. Night Shyamalan beat back more than $81 million in copyright claims in a lawsuit stemming from the Apple TV+ show “Servant.” Filmmaker Francesca Gregorini claimed the first three episodes of the show infringed on the copyright for her film, “The Truth About Emanuel,” which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Both feature a mourning mother who treats a doll as if it were her dead child, as well as a caregiver who goes along with the fantasy. Federal jurors in Riverside, California, found this week that the plaintiff failed to show that the defendants had access to the film before the episodes of the show were created. The Davis Wright Tremaine team was led by partner Nicolas Jampol and included Cydney Swofford Freeman, both of whom handled witnesses at trial, as well as lead associate Meenakshi Krishnan, associates Carl Mazurek, Adrian Vallens, Farrah Vazquez, Alex Cadena, Sam Lachman and Sam Turner, counsel Courtney DeThomas, paralegals Ben Planchon and Adrianna Gutierrez and legal secretary Sam Ho. The Wilmer team was led by Brittany Amadi, who handled opening and closing statements, and included partners Joseph Mueller and Louis Tompros, special counsel Heath Brooks, counsel Natalie Li, firmwide manager-trial services Lanta Chase, legal secretary LaShawn Davenport and senior support specialist Lenise Jennings.