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Donald Victor Smiley Jr
Santa Monica, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 37 years of experience
(310) 496-5788
100 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 700
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Entertainment & Sports and Arbitration & Mediation
Pepperdine University School of Law and Pepperdine 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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Bennett Jay Fidlow
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 35 years of experience
(310) 282-2000
10100 Santa Monica Blvd.
Suite 2200
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Entertainment & Sports, Business and IP
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Full service entertainment law practice handling corporate, financing, production, marketing and distribution matters worldwide across all media for studios, networks, cable companies and independent producers.
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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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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.
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Erik James Hammett
Pomona, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney
Entertainment & Sports, Appeals, Business and Criminal Defense
University of La Verne College of Law
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Russell Bryan Sommers
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business and IP
University of California - Berkeley
Russell Sommers is a seasoned transactional attorney who helps individuals and businesses maximize the value of their Intellectual Property (IP) through the strategic application of copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, and other IP laws.
The Law Office of Russell Sommers offers quality legal services tailored to meet the specific IP needs of businesses and individuals in the spheres of business, technology & entertainment.
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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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Shaun Kendig Boss
San Diego, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 48 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust, Business and IP
University of San Diego
Our operation is focused on providing cost effective solutions and expert customer service to all our clients. In addition to real estate, the firm represents clients in business litigation, construction defect problems, estate planning, arbitrations and mediations. We want our clients to fully understand the legal process and what will be involved in finding a constructive result to their legal issue. I am very active in the legal and real estate community. I continue to educate myself on the most up to date information within my field. I maintain active memberships with both local and national groups in the industry....
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Eric John Goodman
Costa Mesa, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Whittier Law School
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Desiree T. Washington
Torrance, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Bankruptcy, Civil Rights and Criminal Defense
University of Iowa College of Law
Washington Law Firm is a full-service law firm headquartered in Los Angeles County, representing individuals and companies of every size. The firm is recognized for its premier practice, providing business advice to a broad range of persons and companies.
Desiree T. Washington is the owner of Washington Law Firm. She obtained a B.A. from the University of Chicago, where she majored in Medieval and Early Modern History. Thereafter, Desiree Washington attended the University of Iowa, College of Law, where she obtained a J.D. emphasizing jurisprudence and civil rights law. Desiree Washington is licensed to practice before the highest courts in the...
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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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John Begakis
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
(310) 230-5580
Ext. 1
12100 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Entertainment & Sports, Collections and Communications
Southwestern University School of Law
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David Lincoln Axelrod
Sonora, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
(209) 533-4270
Sierra Law Office of David L. Axelrod
6 S. Washington Street #16
Sonora, CA 95370
Entertainment & Sports, Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Civil Rights
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
David L. Axelrod began work as a teenager, selling scorecards in Dodger Stadium. After attending college, David L. Axelrod entered a career as Park Ranger and Fire Fighter, at the East Bay Regional Park District of Northern California. In 1988, David L. Axelrod graduated law school at the University of California, Berkeley, California, passed the bar, and commenced the practice of law.
David L. Axelrod worked as Deputy Attorney for CALTRANS Legal Division in Los Angeles, California, and then as Deputy Tuolumne County Counsel in Sonora, California. Mr....
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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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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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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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Olga Michelle Seanez
Encino, CA, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports and Business
Whittier Coll School of Law
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Sean Stuart Varner
Ontario, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business and Real Estate
Pepperdine University School of Law
Sean S. Varner, Managing Partner of Varner & Brandt, is a corporate and transactional attorney focusing his practice on corporate and business law, real estate, transactional law, contracts and mergers & acquisitions. With over 20 years of legal and business experience Sean takes time to know his clients and their goals and objectives. He handles numerous critical issues, including complicated transactions, facing many different industries and clients including the technology sector, retail/food & beverage industry, real estate developers, restaurants, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, officers and directors of corporations, and a variety of family-owned businesses.
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Yolanda Annette Slaughter
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Civil Rights, Employment and Trademarks
Western State University College of Law
Ms. Slaughter has over 20 years of trial and litigation experience in Employment and Labor Law, Civil/Business Law, Trademark Infringement, and Personal Injury.
Ms. Slaughter is also a mediator and has successfully bridged the gap to resolution of hundreds of cases. Ms. Slaughter is an adjunct Professor, teaching English, English to Foreign Learners, and Paralegal instruction.
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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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Jason Brooks
los angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Jason provides transactional business and legal affairs services to content creators across a wide spectrum of the creative community. Specializing in the new media, entertainment and business space, Jason frequently works with scripted/unscripted TV producers, social media influencers, and business entities to review, draft and negotiate deal terms on a wide range of production-related projects. Jason also provides business development strategy and corporate counsel to a variety of emerging players in the digital space. If you’re an influencer looking to monetize your content, a new business looking to establish your legal entity or register a trademark, or a digital...
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Joel Richard Strote
Thousand Oaks, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 60 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Northwestern Univ School of Law
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Howard Craig Kornberg
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 45 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, IP, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Southwestern Univ School of Law
A Los Angeles motorcycle accident attorney, Howard Kornberg is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review RatedSM by Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest rating an attorney can receive from his or her peers. He has extensive experience assisting clients in personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from accidents involving motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, Segways, and other motorized vehicles.
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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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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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Adam Lewis Prossin
San Diego, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, Consumer and IP
Golden Gate University School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Western State University College of Law
Our founding Attorney, Adam L. Prossin, Esq., has been a practicing attorney since 1994. The Prossin Law Firm focuses on local law in practice areas such as Family Law (Divorce, Custody, Support, Restraining Orders, Guardianships, Adoptions etc.), Dispute Resolution (Mediation & Arbitration), Estate Planning, Business Law, Sports Law & Athlete Representation, Immigration Law, etc. We are the only Issaquah Highlands Law Firm. You can click on the Practice Areas tab on our webpage to see the areas of law that we focus on primarily. The Prossin Law Firm advises and represents individuals and corporate clients both locally and globally. We...
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Delynn Arneson Axelberg
Aliso Viejo, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationEntertainment & Sports, Business, Communications and Trademarks
Pepperdine Univ School of Law and Pepperdine University
An innovative, service oriented and knowledgeable attorney with 26 years of experience committed to providing quality and affordable legal services for individuals, start-ups and small and large companies. Providing general counsel services for individuals and businesses in entertainment, media, music, technology, commercial production, education, and marketing. Assisting in all areas of production- from concept through development to distribution, trademark registration, protection and disputes, and intellectual property licensing. Exceptional contract review, analysis, drafting and negotiation skills. Effective negotiator and mediator in related matters.
Also represents clients in family immigration matters (green card, permanent resident, VAWA, DACA, fiance' visas, consular processing, citizenship)...
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Michael Mario Felix
Santa Fe Springs, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports and Immigration
New England Law | Boston
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John Allen Case Jr
Los Angeles, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 38 years of experience
(310) 203-3911
11601 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Entertainment & Sports, Business, IP and Trademarks
Stanford University
John A. Case, Jr. is a Los Angeles business lawyer and an active member of the State Bar of California since 1986. He is a graduate of Columbia University, Stanford Law School, and the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. After practicing with major law firms such as O'Melveny & Myers and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, he opened his own law office in 1996. He has guided clients through all kinds of business problems and disputes for more than 30 years.
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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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John Tehranian
Newport Beach, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 24 years of experience
(949) 502-2873
4000 MacArthur Blvd.
West Tower, Suite 1100
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Entertainment & Sports, Appeals and IP
Yale Law School
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David Fouad Michail
Big Bear City, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, Communications and IP
Univ of Miami School of Law and University of Miami School of Law
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Luke Hasskamp
La Jolla, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust, Appeals and Business
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Michael Machat
West Hollywood, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
(310) 860-1833
8730 W. Sunset Blvd., Ste. 250
West Hollywood, CA 90069
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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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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Bruce Howard Singman
Pacific Palisades, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 51 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports, Business, Real Estate and Trademarks
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
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Becky Mendoza
Encinitas, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports and Immigration
St. Thomas University School of Law
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Peter Laurence Kaufman
Calabasas, CA Entertainment & Sports Law Attorney with 35 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports and IP
Boston University 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...