Jocelyn (Josie) L. Leinart is an associate attorney in Munck Wilson Mandala’s entertainment and sports practice.

Josie’s legal career has involved her working on litigation matters, including drafting pleadings, motions, and settlement agreements, preparing discovery and handling negotiations with involved parties. She also supports clients in transactional and corporate law, and she will work in the firm’s entertainment and sports practices, helping the firm build business in the LA market.

Josie’s legal career has involved her working on litigation matters, including drafting pleadings, motions, and settlement agreements, preparing discovery and handling negotiations with involved parties. She also supports clients in transactional and corporate law, and she will work in the firm’s entertainment and sports practices, helping the firm build business in the LA market.

Prior to her legal career, Josie worked as an actress (Josie Loren) on more than 23 professional television and film projects for various studios and networks including Paramount, Warner Brothers, ABC, NBC, Lifetime, Disney, and Nickelodeon.  She is best known for her role as Kaylie Cruz in the ABC Family series Make It or Break It, and as FBI agent Michelle Vega in the CBS series The Mentalist.

Josie is fluent in Spanish. She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School in LA where she was a member of the Evening Student Bar Association, a Class Representative, a Student Ambassador, and a Writing Tutor. She attended UCLA for her undergraduate degree, earning a B.A. in mass media communications.

  • Interviewed by CBS Television on College Football Coach Carousel – Josie, a member of the sports law team, was interviewed by CBS Austin in December 2021 on the college football coaching carousel.  She commented on why coaches like Lincoln Riley and Brian Kelly are switching teams and what factors weigh in college sports to cause these trends.

Press Releases

Munck Wilson Mandala Welcomes Josie Leinart

Prior to her legal career, Leinart worked as an actress (Josie Loren) on more than 23 professional television and film projects for various studios and networks including Paramount, Warner Brothers, ABC, NBC, Lifetime, Disney, and Nickelodeon.  She is best known for her role as Kaylie Cruz in the ABC Family series Make It of Break

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Press Releases

13 Munck Wilson Mandala Lawyers Named 2024 Ones to Watch List

Munck Wilson Mandala is pleased to announce that 13 lawyers have been included in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, a publication that recognizes up-and-coming attorneys for their outstanding professional excellence in private practice. The majority of the MWM attorneys featured on this year’s list have been named to the list annually

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Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, JD, 2018

University of California Los Angeles, BA, 2011

Mass Media Communications

cum laude

  • Children’s Hospital of Orange County

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch 2024
  • Southern California Rising Stars, Thompson Reuters 2024
  • 2022 Leaders of Influence: Minority Attorneys
    Los Angeles Business Journal
  • Latino Lawyers to Keep on the Watch, Latino Leaders Magazine
    2021, 2023

California, 2019