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Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) today announced the election of three new partners effective January 1, 2026, all based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) announced today that it has expanded its national Labor & Employment group with the addition of three attorneys in New York and Washington, D.C., including the former chair of an Am Law 100 labor practice.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) announced today that it has significantly expanded its nationally recognized Entertainment and Intellectual Property Litigation practice with the addition of a prominent three-lawyer team led by Aaron Moss, one of the country’s preeminent copyright and media litigators. He is joined by partner Josh Geller and associate Hannah Shepherd, who both come to MSK from Greenberg Glusker LLP.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP is pleased to announce the election of Lindsay Edelstein to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2025. Edelstein, based in New York, is an accomplished attorney with extensive experience in intellectual property, entertainment, and media law.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) continues to add to its roster of entertainment industry players with the addition of Mike Marino as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment practice in Los Angeles. Marino joins MSK from Warner Bros. Discovery, where he served most recently as Senior Vice President, Legal, Employment, overseeing all employment law-related matters for the company’s studio production business units.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP is pleased to announce that Nimish Patel, Chair of the firm’s Corporate & Business Transactions practice group, has been appointed to the White House Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations by President Joe Biden.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp announced today that Corey Singer has been promoted to partner, effective January 1, 2024. Corey is a seasoned labor & employment lawyer based in the Los Angeles office and has been with the firm since April 2020.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp is proud to announce that Bryse Thornwell, an associate in the firm’s Entertainment Transactions practice, successfully completed the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s (LCLD) Pathfinder Program and was named one of the inaugural Atlas Award winners. The program is designed to provide high-potential, early-career attorneys with tools for developing and leveraging relationship-building skills, foundational leadership skills, and career development strategies.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP is pleased to announce its new leadership, effective January 1, 2024. The partnership has elected Greg Hessinger as Chair and Yakub Hazzard as Vice-Chair. Hessinger previously served as co-chair of the firm along with Lucia Coyoca and David Steinberg for the past two and a half years.

Over the past few weeks, we have been deeply troubled to see the wave of antisemitic hate taking root on college campuses in this country and across the globe in the form of demonstrations, harassment, threats and violence. As a firm, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP has a long and proud history of standing behind the Jewish community and we believe that the time has come for law firms like ours to speak up publicly against such abhorrent behavior.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) has expanded its entertainment industry labor & employment practice with the return of Grant Goeckner as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP announced today the election of five new partners, effective Jan. 1, 2023. The diverse group of lawyers spans several practice areas and offices.

Robin C. Gilden, a tax partner in Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP’s Los Angeles office, has been named a 2023 Lawyer of the Year in the 29th edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP partner Matthew Williams has been named executive director and legal counsel of the Coalition for Online Accountability, an advocacy organization of leading entertainment companies and trade associations.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has pledged its commitment to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s Leaders at the Front, an initiative designed to dismantle systemic barriers preventing underrepresented attorneys from achieving the highest levels of leadership within law firms and corporate legal departments.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP continues the expansion of its national labor and employment practice with the addition of Christie Del Rey-Cone as a partner in the firm’s New York office.

As the nation awaits the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision over vaccine mandates and how they will affect large companies, human resources and legal professionals continue to grapple with these and other significant developments in labor and employment law in 2021.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) is pleased to announce that the firm has elected three new partners, effective January 1, 2022. The new partners, all based in Los Angeles and representing a broad range of practice areas, are Stephen A. Blaker, Christopher Elliott, and Louise Truong.

As the United States Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments this Friday challenging President Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine requirements for large employers and federally funded health care workers, national employment litigator David Gordon cautions it could be an “administrative nightmare” if the mandates at stake are upheld.

Bonnie Erickson and Wayde Harrison, the creators of the Phillie Phanatic, finalized a settlement agreement with the Philadelphia Phillies today to ensure the return of the original Phillie Phanatic, the most beloved mascot in all of sports, to Philadelphia where he will reside permanently.

On August 10, 2021, Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York categorically rejected the Philadelphia Phillies’ claim that they had in any way contributed under copyright law to the creation of the Phillie Phanatic or its character. This decision rightfully found that Bonnie Erickson and her husband and business partner Wayde Harrison were the sole copyright creators of the iconic Phillie Phanatic.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) partner Yakub Hazzard is no stranger to the risks associated with new media, having began his career in the 1990s developing his entertainment litigation practice as MSK was representing the Recording Industry Association of America in the Napster dispute. He has since represented an array of entertainment industry clients, from Berry Gordy and The Ray Charles Foundation to Incubus and Weezer, in litigation spanning copyright, trademark, right of publicity and contracts.

With the recent proliferation of ransomware, the Supreme Court’s decision in Van Buren is a reminder that good cybersecurity hygiene is critical to the ability of employers to protect company-owned computer systems and data, warns cyber expert Su Ross, cybersecurity and privacy partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP. The decision comes on the heels of recent high-profile attacks waged on Colonial Pipeline and JBS, the world’s largest meat supplier, where vulnerabilities led the companies to fall victim to ransomware.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Latin music in the U.S. has been growing for the past five years, and in 2020 made up 5.4% or $655 million of the total revenue for U.S. sound recordings. Last year, two of the top three most streamed artists globally on Spotify were Latin musicians. This year’s Annual Meeting by the Copyright Society of the USA examines the opportunities and challenges facing the increasingly mainstream Latin music industry in the Society’s first-ever panel entirely in Spanish.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP partner Emily Evitt will be speaking on a panel of entertainment lawyers at the California Copyright Conference looking at the impact of recent copyright decisions on the music industry. The panel entitled, “Music in the Courts”, will include Freundlich Law partner Michael Kaiser, and founding principal Kenneth Freundlich as moderator. It will be held via Zoom today at 2:30 p.m. PT.

If it wasn’t already apparent, last week’s Bitcoin conference in Miami proved that the “Magic City” has become the epicenter of this new asset class – and the world of crypto has only begun to take off.

The partnership of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP has elected three partners as co-chairs of the firm. Lucia Coyoca, David Steinberg and Greg Hessinger will succeed current co-chairs Kevin Gaut and Nimish Patel.