Bar Admissions

• California

Court Admissions

• US District Court, Central, Northern, and Southern Districts of California, and the District of Colorado
• US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, Federal Circuit, Ninth and the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits
• US Supreme Court

• Southwestern University, J.D., 1980: magna cum laude; Editor-in-Chief, Southwestern University Law Review
• University of California at Los Angeles, B.S., 1976: cum laude

• Ranked by Chambers USA for Litigation: Trial Lawyers (2016-2026); Media & Entertainment: Litigation (2016-2026); and Litigation: General Commercial (2017-2016)
• Ranked by Chambers Global for Litigation: Trial Lawyers (2016-2026)
• Named a Leading Commercial Litigator by Daily Journal (2023, 2025-2026)
• Named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Legal Legends List (2023-2025)
• Named to Variety’s Legal Impact Report (2012-2026)
• Named to Billboard’s Top Music Lawyers List (2017, 2020-2025)
• Named to Los Angeles Business Journal’s LA500 (2020-2025)
• Named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal (2010, 2013-2024)
• Recognized by Best Lawyers in America for Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation in Century City, CA (2006-2026)
• Leading Trial Lawyer (2010-2026), Leading Lawyer for General Commercial Disputes (2021-2025), Named Hall of Fame for General Commercial Disputes ($500m+) (2026), Hall of Fame for Media and Entertainment: Litigation (2020-2026), Recommended for Copyright Law (2021-2024), Named Hall of Fame for Leading Trial Lawyers (2021-2022), Recommended for Securities Litigation: Defense (2021), Recommended for Sport (2021, 2024), Leading Lawyer for Media and Entertainment (2017-2019), and Trial Lawyer of the Year (2014) by The Legal 500 US
• Named Top 100 Trial Lawyers (2018-2025), Top 20 Trial Lawyers in California (2020-2025), Litigation Star (2024-2025), Trial Lawyers of the Year (2019), and Local Litigation Star and National Practice Area Star for Energy and Natural Resources (2020) and Product Liability and Recall, Commercial, Energy (2021-2025) by Benchmark Litigation
• Named to Variety’s Music Legal Elite Report (2024)
• Named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers List (2010-2023)
• Recognized by Managing Intellectual Property as an IP Star (2020-2022) and California Trademark and Copyright Star (2023-2025)
• Named to the “500 Leading Litigators in America” list for Trial Lawyer, including Intellectual Property, Securities, Unfair Competition by Lawdragon (2022-2025)
• Named to the “500 Leading Global Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyers” list by Lawdragon (2025)
• Named a Lawyer of the Decade by Daily Journal (2021)
• Awarded Litigator of the Year by The American Lawyer (2017, 2018, 2020)
• Named a Media & Entertainment MVP by Law360 (2012, 2015, 2017, 2020)
• Life Sciences Star for Product Liability by LMG Life Sciences (2018-2020)
• Named among the Attorneys of the Year by California Lawyer (2019)
• Received the National Impact Case Award for AT&T/Time Warner trial from Benchmark Litigation (2019)
• Selected to the National Law Journal’s Winning Litigators List (2018)
• Recognized as a Game Changer by The Recorder in its Litigation Department of the Year feature (2017)
• Received the CPR Corporate Leadership Award (2017)
• Ranked by Chambers USA for Securities Litigation (2004-2016)
• Selected to the National Law Journal’s Litigation Trailblazers list (2016)
• Recognized by Law360 as a national Trial Pro (2016)
• Named a leading entertainment lawyer in California by Daily Journal (2015)
• Named a Trial Ace by Law360 (2015)
• Named Lawyer of the Month by Attorney at Law Magazine (2015)
• Recognized as an Outstanding Alumnus in Entertainment & Media by Southwestern Law School (2014)
• Lead counsel in Lennar Corporation et al. v. Briarwood Capital LLC, named one of the Top 5 Verdicts, Intentional Torts, Daily Business Review (2014)
• Received the Century City Bar Association Litigator of the Year Award (2002-2003)
• Received the Columbus Citizens Foundation Achievement Award In Law (2001)
• Honored by Judicial Watch, Inc. for Legal Excellence and Service to Community (2000)
• Recognized as Southwestern Law School Alumnus of the Year (1998)
• Named the Malibu Bar Association Trial Lawyer of the Year (1998)
• Named the San Diego Trial Lawyers Association Trial Lawyer of the Year (1997)
• Received the Dade County Trial Lawyers Association Champion of Justice Award (1997)
• Named one of Los Angeles’ Top 50 Litigators by the Los Angeles Business Journal

Member

• Trial Advocacy Board, ABA Litigation Section
• Board of Trustees, Southwestern University School of Law
• Los Angeles County Bar Association, Antitrust and Unfair Competition Sections
• ABA’s Litigation Section and Corporate Counsel Committee
• California Bar Association, Antitrust and Unfair Competition Sections
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers

Author

• “Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the O.J. Simpson Saga,” The Hollywood Reporter (2014)
• “Outside the Courtroom,” Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Larry King, Phoenix Books (2006)
• “Effective Witness Preparation,” California Litigation (Spring 1999)
• “Triumph of Justice: The Final Judgment on the Simpson Saga,” Random House (1998)
• “Opening Statements under California Law,” Los Angeles Lawyer (March 1989)