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The Entertainment Law Group at Norris McLaughlin & Marcus is dedicated to providing counsel to entertainment clients on a variety of issues affecting their talent, maintaining close client contact, and taking a personal interest in opportunities or problems that may impact them. We represent notable clients in several areas of the entertainment industry including television, music, film, and sports.
In the broadcasting sector, Norris McLaughlin regularly counsels television news anchors, reporters, and meteorologists (including Emmy- and Edward R. Murrow-Award-winning talent) on agent agreements, professional development, and employment matters, and aggressively negotiates favorable contract terms and compensation arrangements for our clients. We also counsel news organizations on issues related to the First Amendment, journalistic ethics, libel/slander, and other issues affecting the industry.
In the music sector, Norris McLaughlin counsels musical artists, singers, songwriters, bands, performers, DJs, and hip-hop publishers on various issues including music development, production, publishing, and marketing.
The diversity of our clientele demonstrates the breadth and depth of our experience and capabilities on behalf of some of the world’s most gifted and successful individuals, including painters, screenwriters, actors, modeling agents, entertainers, artists, photographers, video game programmers, book and magazine publishers, professional fighters, professional bowlers, and even an International Chess Master.
Norris McLaughlin & Marcus provides its entertainment clients a full range of expert transactional and litigation services. Given the firm’s diverse practice areas, our attorneys are able to provide our clients with a full range of both commercial and personal legal services, enabling them to form corporations, partnerships, and foundations; buy and sell businesses and properties; handle matrimonial and child custody issues; finance emerging companies; engage in international transactions; minimize taxes and plan estates; assess creditors’ rights and bankruptcy issues; and, if civil or criminal litigation is unavoidable, have their interests represented by experienced trial counsel.
The services that we provide include:
Counseling
- Agent agreements and employment contracts
- Trademark and copyright infringement
- Limitations on restrictive covenants
- Television and film talent agreements
- Register, maintain, and enforce copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights
- Infringement and related opinions
- Enforcement and exploitation of proprietary rights
- Trade secret protection
- Research, planning, and technology protection
- New product introduction
- Event sponsorship agreements
Litigation, Arbitration, and Dispute Resolution
- Trademark and copyright infringement
- Trade secret misappropriation
- Unfair competition
- Breach of contract
Domestic and International Transactions
- Licensing
- Joint ventures
- Acquisitions and divestitures
- Due diligence
- Secrecy/non-disclosure
- Consulting
Due to the nature of the special issues that our entertainment clients face, Norris McLaughlin takes care to provide them with fast, responsive advice, as well as good-faith assessments of the time and costs required in each particular case. In this way, we ensure that clients’ minds are at ease and that their goals are promptly met by our group of lawyers who bring a depth of experience to the wide range of issues faced by these clients.
Our lawyers are also actively involved in numerous entertainment-industry organizations including the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the International Radio & Television Society (IRTS), Beverly Hills Bar Association, and the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA); and donate their time and legal expertise to such organizations as Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, the New Jersey Ballet Company, the Val Skinner Foundation, George Street Playhouse, Mediatech Foundation, and the State Theater.
The Entertainment Law Group invites you to learn more about our services and subscribe to our mailing list to receive articles and notices about upcoming seminars. Please contact us at
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Upcoming Events:
2008 Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium: From the Arena to the Streets: The Pressures Placed on Athletes, Entertainers and Management, Seton Hall University School of Law, Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, November 7, 2008
Attorneys
Fernando M. Pinguelo
Jeanne Hamburg
David T. Harmon
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