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Thomas W Porter
El Segundo, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 14 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Southwestern Law School
Tommy helps entrepreneurs, startups, and businesses of all kinds build great companies. His goal is to be a team member of your company to provide business and legal strategy in an effective and efficient manner. He serves as outside general counsel and advises clients in many different sectors, including technology, media, entertainment, retail, food and beverage, and outdoor recreation industries, among others. He prides himself on personalized services and building lasting relationships with his clients. He likes to work with teams bold enough to build epic brands, solve big problems, and make a dent in the universe.
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Mick Longo
Beverly Hills, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, Cannabis Law and IP
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Mick Longo is an attorney licensed to practice law in the States of California, Florida, North Carolina and Oregon. Motivated by an entrepreneurial desire to change the way law firms operate, Mr. Longo founded Longo & Alach LLP with partner Patrick Alach in 2009. In 2013, Mr. Longo orchestrated and oversaw Longo & Alach LLP’s expansion to Miami, Florida and then in 2015 he expanded the firm again to Charlotte, North Carolina. His practice areas include Entertainment Law, Sports Law, Business Law, Cannabis Law, Hospitality Law, Real Estate Law, Privacy Law and Legislative Advocacy.
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Joshua R. Lastine
Beverly Hills, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney
8730 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 350
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports and Business
Pepperdine University
Entertainment lawyer Joshua R. Lastine protects the artistry and livelihood of actors, production companies, writers, producers, directors, animators, social media influencers, and podcasters. A strategic negotiator, a fierce advocate for talent, and a practical problem solver, Lastine strengthens his counsel with an indelible passion for show business, its players, and creators.
Lastine understands how to structure and close the deals shaping the future of the entertainment industry. Recent examples include critically acclaimed streaming series, musicians’ NFTs, and mixed-reality productions in the Metaverse.
Lastine’s experience in Studio business and legal affairs includes positions with ViacomCBS, Lions Gate, Marvel Studios, Starz, Discovery...
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Joseph Albert Yanny
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 46 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Real Estate
Univ of Dayton School of Law
Joseph A. Yanny was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and attended college and law school at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Yanny obtained a B.E. in Engineering in 1975 and his J.D. in 1978. Mr. Yanny began practicing as a patent attorney in Chicago, Illinois where he obtained his first million dollar judgment before moving to California in 1980. Prior to founding his own law firm in 1983, Mr. Yanny worked in the aerospace industry in California.
Mr. Yanny is a member of the Chicago, Beverly Hills, South Bay, Los Angeles County, Illinois State and American Bar Associations;...
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Navid Soleymani
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 22 years of experience
(310) 919-0091
1875 Century Park East
Suite 1240
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Business, Employment and IP
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Navid handles business litigation and employment litigation for individual and corporate clients in a wide range of industries, from small businesses to large publicly-traded corporations. As a seasoned Los Angeles entertainment lawyer, Navid has extensive experience in the media and entertainment industries, representing clients such as recording artists, managers and agents, production companies and content providers. Navid has litigated numerous intellectual property claims involving, among other things, copyright and trademark infringement, cyber-squatting, defamation, right of publicity, and trade secret misappropriation. Navid handles sexual harassment, wrongful termination, disability discrimination and pregnancy discrimination.
Since 2002, Navid Soleymani has been litigating complex business, entertainment,...
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Daniel R. Freytag
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 49 years of experience
(310) 623-4562
2029 Century Park East
Suiet 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Business, Personal Injury and Products Liability
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Daniel R. Freytag is Of Counsel with Meyer Wilson, LPA. He was born in Napoleon Ohio and earned his B.A. at Wittenberg University where he graduated magna cum laude. He went on to attend the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University and earned his J.D. summa cum laude.
Mr. Freytag has been a trial lawyer for more than thirty-four years and has represented hundreds of large corporations, small businesses, professionals, and individuals in a variety of complex tort, insurance, and business cases. He has personally examined or cross-examined more than 1000 lay witnesses and more than 150 expert...
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David R. Schwartz
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 26 years of experience
(310) 730-4398
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Business, Consumer and IP
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Jonathan Louis Handel
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Communications and IP
Harvard Law School
I practice transactional entertainment and technology law and was a also a journalist at The Hollywood Reporter from 2010-20, where I covered entertainment labor, law and business. A former computer scientist, I was also active in local politics for over a decade.
A preeminent expert on Hollywood unions and guilds, I'm the author of several books on the subject. I'm also an adjunct professor at USC and Southwestern law schools, and previously at UCLA Law School, and a non-resident research fellow at Rutgers University. I've worked as a talent lawyer; guild attorney; and as a litigator.
I've been a member of the...
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Mitra Ahouraian
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
With degrees from both UCLA and Loyola Law School, and a specialty from UCLA in Entertainment Studies with an emphasis in Film and Film Finance, Mitra has worked in legal affairs at MTV, has worked on the merger of 2 major record labels, and has been of-counsel to several high-profile copyright infringement cases involving artists and major studios. Her entertainment practice specializes in film and entertainment financing, negotiating and structuring artist and production deals, and all Intellectual Property matters, including rights clearance, licensing, copyrights, trademarks, and patents. Mitra’s film practice specializes in intellectual property, film finance, corporate law, and production...
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Joshua Biletsky
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business and IP
Southwestern Law School
I am an attorney who provides legal services to emerging and established artists. I also cater to the legal needs of entrepreneurs and to businesses which are just starting up or have already been established. In representing these clients, I strive to protect the intellectual property of businesses and creative and technical artists across a wide spectrum of media.
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Tammy Wu
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney
(310) 440-4100
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Ethan D Kirschner
Culver City, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, Communications and IP
University of Minnesota Law School
Ethan D. Kirschner is an experienced litigator with clients in California, throughout the United States, and overseas. Originally from Wisconsin, Mr. Kirschner was a champion high school and college debater. He has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, and received an LL.M. in intellectual property law from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Kirschner has been practicing law since 2005. He is licensed to practice law in California.
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David Allen Sergenian
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
University of Virginia School of Law
David A. Sergenian is the founder of Sergenian Law, a Professional Corporation. His practice concentrates in the areas of copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, partnership and startup disputes, appellate practice, and general commercial litigation. In addition, he has extensive experience in patent law, securities litigation, entertainment litigation, and employment actions. He has represented clients on “both sides of the v.,” including numerous Fortune 500 companies, in litigations, trials, arbitrations, and alternative dispute resolutions.
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Dmitriy Aristov
El Segundo, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 9 years of experience
(424) 259-3550
222 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 2000
El Segundo, CA 90245
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Mike Arias
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Appeals, Asbestos and Insurance Claims
Mike Arias is the senior and managing partner of the firm. He handles matters throughout the United States. Mr. Arias has litigated and tried matters from New York to Texas to California, in both state and federal court. He has resolved hundreds of matters, either by trial, arbitration, mediation or negotiated settlement, resulting in millions of dollars in recovery for the firm's clients. His most recent trial victory resulted in a judgment and subsequent settlement in excess of $19 million. His most recent settlements total well in excess of $50 million. Mr. Arias has also successfully defended and counseled many...
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Miles J. Feldman
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 30 years of experience
(310) 440-4100
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Arbitration & Mediation, IP and Trademarks
University of California - Berkeley
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Eddie Burnett
Fountain Valley, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Communications, Consumer and IP
Accomplished entertainment attorney with over 35 years of experience representing clients in the music, film, television, and performing arts industries.
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Tre Lovell
Century City, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
With more than 20 years of experience, Tre Lovell has been noted among the elite trial lawyers in the nation, having been named "Lawyer of the Year" Finalist, 2016, by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and further honored by The National Law Journal as one of the Top 50 Litigation Trailblazers in the United States. Mr. Lovell has been recognized among the top 1% of attorneys in the country as a litigator through such esteemed organizations as America's Top 100 Attorneys, Distinguished Justice Advocates, National Academy of Jurisprudence, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Rue's Best Attorneys of America. In addition,...
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Justin David Sobodash
West Hollywood, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Communications, Insurance Claims and Trademarks
UCLA School of Law
Justin has over 20 years of law firm experience in litigation and intellectual property prosecution matters. His experience includes trial and appellate work in breach of contract, business torts, copyright, trademark, defamation, environmental, real estate, public interest, and cannabis matters. He maintains a robust reputation management practice.
Justin’s clients include large entities, small businesses, and individuals. He is attuned to the need to tailor advice regarding current and potential legal issues to the client’s familiarity with legal issues and means of accomplishing legal compliance.
Justin practiced at big firms for the first 10 years of his legal...
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Howard K. Alperin
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
(310) 424-4088
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Business and IP
Widener University Delaware School of Law
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Douglas B. Wroan
Hawthorne, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Bankruptcy, Business and Trademarks
Western State Univ COL
Mr. Wroan is president of The Wroan Law Firm, Inc. where his practice focuses exclusively on sports and entertainment, technology and new media, business, real estate and related litigation.
Mr. Wroan has negotiated, drafted and closed numerous production financing, sponsorship, licensing, talent, endorsement and related agreements on behalf of individual clients, companies and brands both here in the U.S. and internationally for over fifteen years. In addition, Mr. Wroan has consulted for and advised several Fortune 500 companies on their branded entertainment, integration and licensing strategies including: Brunswick, Life Fitness, Volkswagen of America, Zippo Manufacturing, Razor USA LLC, AllSteel and Bebe...
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Gi Nam Lee
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Trinity Law School
Ginam Lee has been a California licensed attorney since 1999. He is also admitted to practice in the United States District Court, Central District of California as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His areas of practice are litigation, real estate, entertainment, intellectual property, alcoholic beverages, franchises, and business affairs.
Mr. Lee began his legal career as a legal assistant at a boutique criminal defense firm of Beck & DeCorso in downtown Los Angeles. Since then, he has worked in various legal capacities at major firms such as O'Melveny & Myers in...
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Daniel W. Sheerin
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 9 years of experience
(310) 440-4100
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Real Estate
Fordham University School of Law
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Harrison Pierce Kordestani
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Tax
Boston University School of Law and California Western School of Law
I have extensive experience in legal, finance, management and company-building.
As an attorney, my focus has been on transactional drafting and negotiation and providing ongoing legal counsel and contract interpretation to numerous private individuals as well as companies in varied fields such as media and entertainment, oil and gas, mining and exploration, virtual reality technologies, private health care, cannabis, and mortgage lending and real estate.
As an entertainment professional, I have acquired, or produced, and distributed dozens of feature films, while usually being active in managing the business and legal affairs of most the companies I have worked for or founded. My...
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Joshua Mogin
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
(310) 440-4100
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Business and Real Estate
New York University School of Law
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Kamal Andrew Moo
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports and IP
Southwestern Univ School of Law
Music and entertainment law was a natural progression given my background. Having had jobs / positions in production, publishing, artist and label management, I have unique perspective. I love helping artists with their business issues so they can focus on developing their craft.
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Neama Rahmani
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, Communications and Criminal Defense
Neama is a prestigious California personal injury attorney. He is the President and co-founder of West Coast Trial Lawyers.
Neama graduated from UCLA at the age of 19 and Harvard Law School at the age of 22, making him one of the youngest graduates in the 200-year history of the law school. Upon graduation, Neama was hired by O’Melveny & Myers, the largest law firm in Los Angeles at the time, where he represented companies such as Disney, Marriott, and the Roman Catholic Church.
But Neama wanted to help ordinary people, not corporations, so he joined the United States Attorney’s Office, where...
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Tifanie Jodeh
Beverly Hills, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports and Business
Loyola Law School
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Gennady Shnaider
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, IP and International
UCLA School of Law
We are dedicated to providing quality legal services at reasonable rates. Our attorneys are experienced, business-oriented and responsive to client needs. We have experience in licensing and other technology transactions, intellectual property counseling, product distribution and marketing, contracts, corporate organization and governance, mergers and acquisitions, financings, employment, real estate, entertainment law and general business and corporate matters.
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Allan Edward Mesia
Beverly Hills, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, IP and Tax
Brooklyn Law School
Allan is an Attorney and CPA whose practice focuses on legal and business management services for passionate clients in the entertainment/media and fashion/apparel industries. His unique background allows him to service clients with all aspects of transactional entertainment matters, copyright and trademark matters, licensing, and financial and tax consulting. Allan serves as counsel to musicians, records producers, managers, record labels, music publishers, actors, film and photography production companies, designers and apparel companies. His past professional experience includes EMI Music, Woods & Middleton, LLP, Deloitte (tax, licensing, royalty audits), and Tommy Hilfiger. He also has experience...
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Michael Machat
Beverly Hills, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
UCLA School of Law
Michael Machat is one of the few private attorneys that has taken a case to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. His practice covers all aspects of trademark law from the selection and filing of trademarks to fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect his clients' rights.
Mr. Machat represents various types of clients, including start ups, artists, entrepreneurs, wealthy businessmen and even other lawyers. In addition to working on transactional matters, he has tried numerous jury trial cases to verdict, most recently winning over $700,000 representing a client suing for trademark infringement. ...
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Steven Lawrence Weinberg
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Loyola Law School
I am a 25 year veteran attorney specializing in representing music, film and television entertainment industry clients in a variety of intellectual property and complex business related disputes and transactions.
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Paul David Supnik
Beverly Hills, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 52 years of experience
(310) 859-0100
9454 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 550
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Entertainment & Sports and IP
UC Hastings COL
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Elizabeth Louise Broden
Culver City, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business and IP
Pepperdine University School of Law
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Apemwoyah Kisob Alaric-Lorenzo
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Civil Rights, Employment and Personal Injury
I am an Attorney licensed in California, New York, Nigeria and Cameroon. I have vast experience in civil litigation and a wonderful understanding of the law. I also handle transactional matters for a slew of clients. The law is not complicated and with any set of facts, if the law is on our side, I will do all it legally takes to ensure my client gets what they deserve.
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Jake Jacobson
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 50 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports
UCLA School of Law
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Brad Andrew Hakala
Long Beach, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Having previously practiced at an American Law 100 firm as well as in-house counsel for a multi-national corporation, Mr. Hakala brings both legal expertise and business sense to the business transactions that clients seek to accomplish and the complex legal problems that they seek to litigate and resolve. Mr. Hakala has not only litigated various complex business and employment matters on behalf of Fortune 100 clients, he also provides general business, technology, and media law representation to various companies, including start-up businesses and those in the renewable energies sector. Mr. Hakala is an experienced business litigator who has also...
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Jovan Anthony Johnson
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business and Consumer
Southwestern Univ School of Law
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Richard Lloyd Sherman
Beverly Hills, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, Civil Rights and IP
UCLA School of Law
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Mr Edward McLean Lyman III
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Civil Rights, Employment and IP
Univ of Florida COL