Scott A. Edelman is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Century City office. Mr. Edelman is Co-Chair of the firm's Media and Entertainment Practice Group. He is a member of the Litigation Department and 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 been named "Best of the Bar" by the Los Angeles Business Journal, one of Los Angeles' "Super Lawyers" by Los Angeles Magazine 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 2006 which ranked Mr. Edelman among the top media and entertainment litigators in California and in Law Dragon, 3000 Leading Lawyers in America. In April 2007, he was profiled as one of Hollywood's top litigators in Daily Variety's Hollywood Law Impact List, and in both July 2007 and July 2008, he was named one of the top 100 "Power Lawyers" by the Hollywood Reporter. 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).
Mr. Edelman's entertainment clients include major studios, music companies, motion picture foreign distributors and investors, production companies, licensing agents and management companies. He represents several Fortune 500 companies and a major university in connection with their intellectual property issues. Mr. Edelman has substantial trial court experience, including the recent $122 million dollar jury verdict in Intertainment v. Franchise Pictures discussed below.
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.
He is 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.
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REPRESENTATIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND COPYRIGHT MATTERS
REPRESENTATIVE TRADEMARK MATTERS
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