Russ August & Kabat has built a marquee, nationally recognized media and entertainment practice that is led by co-chairs Stanton “Larry” Stein and Ashley Yeargan, their partner Bennett Bigman, and associate Erica Kim. Our experienced team resolves clients’ disputes at every stage, and helps them navigate the business and financial issues of building careers and companies.
Who We Represent
We represent actors, writers, directors, producers, recording artists, athletes, influencers, entrepreneurs, talent agents and managers, guilds, production companies, and video-game companies — the people and businesses who create the value the industry runs on, and who need it protected.
What We Do
- Talent representation in film, television, streaming, and music
- Profit participation and accounting audits and disputes
- Contract and licensing disputes
- Defamation, including “do not publish” notices, demands for retraction and litigation (with extensive anti-SLAPP experience)
- Rights of privacy and publicity claims
- Copyright litigation, including infringement and termination cases
- Idea-theft claims
- Trademark and trade dress litigation
- Intellectual-property protection and brand management
- Commissions disputes between talent and their representatives
Recognition
The firm’s entertainment lawyers are recognized globally and by the industry’s leading publications. Partners have been named among Variety’s Legal Impact Report, Variety’s Music Legal Elite, Billboard’s Top Music Lawyers, the Los Angeles Times’ Envelope Magazine’s “Entertainment Business Visionaries,” and The Best Lawyers in America. Larry Stein is a frequent speaker who has taught entertainment law at USC and Stanford and lectured at Yale, Harvard, and Berkeley.
Have an entertainment dispute or deal? Let’s talk.