Aimée Scala is a Partner in the Los Angeles office of Mazzola Lindstrom LLP where her practice focuses on litigation as well as transactional law, particularly in the areas of fine art, intellectual property, media, and entertainment law. Aimée represents clients in a variety of creative fields, including the visual arts, new media, emerging technologies, photography, publishing, and entertainment industries.
A part-time lecturer at the UCLA School of Law and past Chair of the Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Aimée speaks often on art law, copyright, and the fair use defense.
Prior to entering the legal profession, Aimée was the photo editor of Artforum magazine from 2004-2013. Her extensive professional background in the arts informs her analysis of client matters, as she is familiar with the many players and facets of the art world, from scholars and researchers to artists and galleries, as well as museums, auction houses, libraries, archives, and nonprofit arts organizations of all kinds, and currently sits on the board of Fulcrum Arts, a nonprofit arts organization which advances collaboration at the intersection of art and science to impact positive social change on a civic scale through exhibitions, institutional partnerships, interdisciplinary symposia, festivals, residencies, and outreach education.
