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Bennett Jay Fidlow
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Full service entertainment law practice handling corporate, financing, production, marketing and distribution matters worldwide across all media for studios, networks, cable companies and independent producers.
Education
- Columbia University
- MFA (1989) | Theatre Management
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- Activities: Broadway & Off-Broadway Experience
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- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Law Degree (1988)
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- Activities: Comm/Ent Law Journal
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- BFA (1983) | Theatre Production
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Professional Experience
- Sr. Counsel
- Loeb & Loeb, LLC
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- Managing Partner
- Entertainment Law, PLC
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- Founding Partner
- Schroder Fidlow, PLC
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- Of Counsel
- Heenan Blaikie, Beverly Hills
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- Founding Partner
- Law Office of Bennett J Fidlow
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- Head of Bus/Legal Affairs for Home Entertainment
- MGM Studios
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- Associate
- Bloom, Dekom & Hergott
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Publications
Articles & Publications
- THE 'WORKS MADE FOR HIRE' DOCTRINE AND THE EMPLOYEE / INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR DICHOTOMY: THE NEED FOR CONGRESSIONAL CLARIFICATION
- Hastings Communications & Entertainment Law Journal & cited by U.S. Supreme Court in CCNV v Reid (re: Copyright Law)
Professional Associations
- Virginia State Bar
- Member
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- California State Bar
- Member
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- Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Entertainment Law Section
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- University of Richmond, School of Law
- Adjunct Professor
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- Activities: Teaches Entertainment Law
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Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- California
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- Virginia
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Practice Areas
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- Intellectual Property
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
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