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Entertainment Law
This section, the largest of its kind in the world, covers a broad range of legal issues pertaining to film, television, music, and emerging digital properties.
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Entertainment Law Section
Leadership history
- Keith Kelly
- Randi D. Bandman
- John R. Baldivia
- Greg Zbylut
- Larry A. Verbit
- David Albert Pierce
- Erin Harris Friedman
- Pierre Pine
- Alexander Rufus-Isaacs
- Leigh Leshner
- Susannah Jeffers
- Judith Dornstein
- Adam Siegler
- Joseph D. Schleimer
- Neville L. Johnson
- Susan Rabin
- Miles Feldman
- Pamela Forster
- Caroline Raufi
- Marissa Roman
- Kenneth Freundlich
- Gordon Firemark
- David Helfant
- Stephanie Yost
- Cameron Christine Valada
- Nancy Derwin-Weiss
- Jay Spillane
- Donna Cobe
- Rick Brull
- Peter Nelson
- Marc R. Staenberg
- Stuart Burton
- Michael Donaldson
- Jay Cooper