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 | Robert A. JacobsPartner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Trident Center, East Tower, 11355 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
90064
(Los Angeles Co.)
Telephone: 310-312-4360
Fax: 310-312-4224
http://www.manatt.com
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| Practice Areas | Media and Entertainment Litigation; Civil Litigation; Intellectual Property; Entertainment; Media Law | | | Education | Southwestern University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1992, University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., English; B.A., French, 1988) | | | Admitted | 1992, California; 1993, New York; U.S. District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Ninth and Federal Circuits; U.S. Court of International Trade | |
| Languages | French and Italian | | | Biography | Editor-in-Chief, Southwestern University Law Review, 1991-1992. Law Clerk to Judge Gregory W. Carman, U.S. Court of International Trade, 1992-1994. Co-Author: with A. Paul Victor, "Trends in International Antitrust Law," Private Investments Abroad, Matthew Bender & Co., ed. 1997. Author: "Work-for-Hire and the Moral Right Dilemma in the European Community: An American Perspective," 16 B.C. Int'l & Comp. L.Rev. 29, 1993; "Dirty Words, Dirty Thoughts and Censorship: Obscenity Law and Non-Pictorial Works," 21 SW.U. L.Rev. 155, 1992. Associate: Weil, Gotshal & Manges, 1995-1998; Parcher, Hayes & Snyder, 1998-2003. Member, Executive Board, Donald Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute, Southwestern University School of Law.(Also at New York, New York Office) | | | Reported Cases | Faulkner v. Arista Records LLC, 602 F. Supp. 2d. 470 (S.D.N.Y. 2009); Poindexter v. Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., No. 06 Civ. 3403 (LTS)(DCF), 2009 WL 302064 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 9, 2009); 24/7 Records, Inc. v. Sony Music Entm't, Inc., 566 F. Supp. 2d 305 (S.D.N.Y. 2008); Cusano v. Horipro Entm't Group, 301 F. Supp. 2d 272 (S.D.N.Y. 2004), aff'd, 126 Fed. Appx. 521 (2d Cir. 2005); Silivanch v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc., 171 F. Supp. 2d 241 (S.D.N.Y. 2001), appeals dismissed, 333 F.3d 355 (2d Cir. 2003), cert. denied sub nom. Essef Corp. v. Silivanch, 540 U.S. 1105 (2004). | | | ISLN | 909659873 | |
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