Scott A. Edelman is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Century City office.  Mr. Edelman is a member of the firm's Litigation Department and a Co-Chair of its Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice Group.  Mr. Edelman has first-chaired numerous jury trials, bench trials and arbitrations, and has a broad background in commercial litigation.  He also is the firm's National Pro Bono Coordinator.

Mr. Edelman has received numerous accolades.  He was named in 2009 as one of the Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers in California, 2009 "Litigator of the Year" by the Century City Bar Association, one of ten litigators named in the Los Angeles Business Journal's 2009 Top 100 Lawyers in Los Angeles, "Best of the Bar" by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and one of the "Best Lawyers In America" by American Lawyer Media.  He also is featured in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008 which ranked Mr. Edelman among the top media and entertainment litigators in California and in Law Dragon, 3000 Leading Lawyers in America.  Mr. Edelman has been profiled as one of Hollywood's top litigators in Daily Variety's Hollywood Law Impact List, and has been named one of the top 100 "Power Lawyers" by the Hollywood Reporter.  He has also been recognized as a "litigation star" in the 2009 edition of Institutional Investors Benchmark Litigation Guide. 

Mr. Edelman has substantial experience trying high stake fraud cases, including a  $122 million dollar federal jury verdict in Intertainment v. Franchise Pictures, and the dismissal of two toxic torts cases against Dole Foods because of fraud on the court by plaintiffs and their counsel.  The Dole victory was featured as the cover story of the October issues of California Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, and received wide-spread newspaper coverage, including a front-page feature story in the Wall Street Journal. 

Mr. Edelman represents several Fortune 500 companies and a major university in connection with their intellectual property issues.  His cases in the area of entertainment and intellectual property have covered a broad range of areas, including profit participation in the motion picture and television industries, arbitrations under the auspices of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, right of publicity, copyright and trademark infringement, misappropriation of ideas, sports law, false advertising, royalty disputes involving patented medical devices, and negligence in the selection of computer hardware and software.  He authors a chapter on copyright damages in Intellectual Property Law, Damages and Remedies (Law Journal Press 2000).  His entertainment clients include major studios, music companies, motion picture foreign distributors and investors, production companies, licensing agents and management companies. 

Mr. Edelman received his law degree from the University of California (Boalt Hall) in 1984, where he was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Ecology Law Quarterly.  He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Stanford University in 1981, where he graduated with distinction.  Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Mr. Edelman clerked for United States District Court Judge Jesse W. Curtis in the Central District of California.

Mr. Edelman recently completed his term as Chairman of the Board of Directors of KCET Public Television and serves on its Executive Committee.  He also is a member of the Board of Directors and past President of Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a legal aid organization for the indigent.

A list of Mr. Edelman's cases is available on request.