Adrianos Facchetti
{{Short description|American trial lawyer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Adrianos Facchetti
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| birth_name = Adrianos Matthew Facchetti
| birth_place = Southern California, U.S.
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|University of California, Los Angeles (BA)|Pepperdine University School of Law (JD)}}
| occupation = Trial lawyer
| years_active = 2006–present
| known_for = Internet defamation, anti-SLAPP litigation, and Personal Injury Law
| organization = Law Offices of Adrianos Facchetti (founding partner)
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Adrianos Matthew Facchetti is an American trial lawyer based in Burbank, California, whose practice spans personal injury litigation and disputes concerning online speech, including defamation and anti-SLAPP matters. Active at the bar since 2006, he is the founding partner of the Law Offices of Adrianos Facchetti and has appeared for both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts as well as in arbitrations.{{cite web |url=https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/243213 |title=Adrianos Matthew Facchetti #243213 – Attorney Licensee Search |website=State Bar of California |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Early life and education
Facchetti was raised in Southern California. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of California, Los Angeles.{{cite web |url=https://teamreferralnetwork.com/members/adrianos-facchetti |title=Adrianos Facchetti |website=Team Referral Network |access-date=4 May 2025}}
He then attended the Pepperdine University School of Law, where he received a Juris Doctor and served as president of the legal-honor society Phi Delta Phi.{{cite web |url=https://profiles.superlawyers.com/california/burbank/lawyer/adrianos-m-facchetti/f25894e4-471c-41d3-a7fa-45652cac05d3.html |title=Adrianos Facchetti |website=Super Lawyers |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Facchetti was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2006.
Career
After passing the bar, Facchetti opened his own firm in 2006, concentrating on plaintiff-side personal-injury cases and what was then an emerging niche, Internet defamation.{{cite web |url=https://facchettilaw.com/about-us/ |title=About Us |website=Law Offices of Adrianos Facchetti |access-date=4 May 2025}} A profile in the ABA Journal later highlighted him as an early adopter of online tools and the founder of California Defamation Law blog.{{cite news |url=https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/make_lemonade |title=Make Lemonade |author=Barbara Rose |work=ABA Journal |date=October 2011 |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Facchetti's docket has ranged from technology disputes to local tort actions. In Montano v. City of Burbank, he represented women who were secretly filmed in a municipal-pool locker room, pursuing privacy claims that drew coverage in the Los Angeles Times.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/tn-blr-me-verdugo-aquatics-claim-20160916-story.html |title=Woman secretly recorded at pool locker room files claim |author=Alene Tchekmedyian |work=Los Angeles Times |date=16 September 2016 |access-date=4 May 2025}}
In January 2017, Facchetti filed Salinas v. Roth in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of gardener Timothy Salinas, alleging negligence and strict liability after an Australian cattle dog owned by Van Halen singer David Lee Roth allegedly bit Salinas, while he was landscaping the musician's Pasadena home.{{cite news |title=David Lee Roth Sued by Gardener ... Your Dog Really Got Me! |url=https://www.tmz.com/2017/01/28/david-lee-roth-landscaper-dog-bite-lawsuit/ |work=TMZ |date=28 January 2017 |access-date=12 June 2025}} The following year, he represented Hanna Ketai in Ketai v. Trebek (No. BC718803), a negligence and strict-liability action accusing Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek and his wife of failing to restrain their dog, which allegedly charged Ketai and caused her to fall into traffic while walking her own pet in Studio City.{{cite news |title=Alex Trebek Sued by Woman Who Claims His Dog Charged at Her |url=https://www.tmz.com/2018/07/13/alex-trebek-sued-woman-claims-dog-charged-her/ |work=TMZ |date=13 July 2018 |access-date=12 June 2025}}
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was among the counsel for an Airbnb host challenging the platform’s handling of refund requests in O’Connor v. Airbnb, a case examined by Law360.{{cite news |url=https://www.law360.com/articles/1347514/airbnb-looks-to-arbitrate-covid-19-repayment-dispute |title=Airbnb Looks to Arbitrate COVID-19 Repayment Dispute |author=Joyce Hanson |work=Law360 |date=18 January 2021 |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Facchetti has also defended corporate clients; he appeared for Yelp in wage-and-hour litigation in which a federal judge held that writing online reviews is not "employment" under California law.{{cite news |url=https://www.courthousenews.com/writing-yelp-reviews-is-not-a-job-judge-finds/ |title=Writing Yelp Reviews Is Not a Job, Judge Finds |author=Katherine Proctor |work=Courthouse News Service |date=14 August 2015 |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Philanthropy and community work
Facchetti has served on the board of Media City Ballet, a Burbank-based nonprofit dance organization.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/entertainment/tn-blr-0817-society-story.html |title=Celebrating a decade of dance in Burbank |author=David Laurell |work=Los Angeles Times |date=17 August 2011 |access-date=4 May 2025}} He and colleagues from his firm regularly partner with the homelessness charity, Home Again Los Angeles, to deliver free legal-aid clinics for low-income residents.{{cite news |url=https://myburbank.com/law-office-teams-up-with-home-again-l-a-to-give-free-legal-advice/ |title=Law Office Teams Up With Home Again L.A. to Give Free Legal Advice |work=myBurbank |date=2 April 2024 |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Personal life
Facchetti is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Facchetti mentors young lawyers through bar-association programs and remains active in local cultural organizations, including Media City Ballet events.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/news/tn-blr-xpm-2009-06-03-blr-onthetown03-story.html |title=On the Town |work=Los Angeles Times |date=3 June 2009 |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Awards and honors
Super Lawyers named Facchetti a Southern California “Rising Star” each year from 2014 through 2016. In 2025, the Martindale-Hubbell reported that his firm holds an “AV Preeminent” rating, the organization's highest classification for legal ability and ethics.{{cite web |url=https://www.martindale.com/organization/law-offices-of-adrianos-facchetti-156508419/ |title=Law Offices of Adrianos Facchetti – Firm Profile |website=Martindale.com |access-date=4 May 2025}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://facchettilaw.com}}
Category:21st-century American lawyers
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:Pepperdine University School of Law alumni
Category:Pepperdine University people
Category:American philanthropists