Entertainment/Media/Technology Practice

The Weinstein Group has the experience and expertise to achieve results with complex, and often sensitive entertainment, intellectual property, media and technology disputes and negotiations.

We bring the depth of knowledge and skills necessary to understand the practical and legal issues these specialized areas present. These cases often have tough, sophistcated and creative litigants requiring out-of-the-box thinking.

The Weinstein Group has earned an excellent reputation for putting its insight, integrity and perseverance to assist parties out of entrenched positions and into constructive solutions.

Process Expertise

-   Thoughtful in-depth preparation;

-   Strategic design of the mediation process from intake through agreement;

-   Team approach when useful to increase effectiveness and efficiency;

-   Innovative structured solutions;

-   Well-managed negotiations; and

-   Consistent follow-up that achieves results.

Representative Matters

-   Copyright Claims: Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox, NBC/Universal, Paramount, major music labels, on-line providers, distributors and investors;

-   Contract Disputes: Complex distribution, acquisition, assignment, co-production, talent, agency and executive agreements;

-   Patent Cases: Fortune 500’s including Intel, MasterCard and Apple;

-   Royalty issues and profit participation issues: film, music, literary distribution, new media and evolving business models;

-   Trademark matters: television entities, on-line advertisers, and high-tech developers;

-   Media and defamation claims: best-selling authors, on-line entertainment entities, print publishers, “cyber-smear” and celebrity personalities;

-   Trade secret and "idea theft" issues: high tech entrepreneurs, network producers and entertainment companies;

-   Confidential Celebrity Cases: Myriad of sensitive disputes;

-   Coverage and Bond Matters: Production interruption, distribution, malpractice, errors and omissions and delivery issues;

-   Employment Matters: Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, wrongful-termination, solicitation, non-compete and trade secret claims; and

-   Professional Liability Claims: Attorney and accountant malpractice with underlying entertainment/IP claims.

Attorneys engaging mediators from the Weinstein Group give their clients the added comfort and value of ADR experts who have a history of success with the high-profile parties in these complex intellectual property, entertainment and technology matters.

Intellectual property and media expert Lizbeth Hasse leads this division, acting in concert with Judge Weinstein, Kim Deck and Weinstein Group managing mediator Jed Melnick.