Entertainment & Sports
Feb. 18, 2017
High-profile dilemma: fight or settle?
Representing celebrity clients in the new "clickbait" era: a cautionary tale for defendants (and their lawyers). By Mathew Rosengart
Mathew S. Rosengart
Partner
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Entertainment Law, Litigation
1840 Century Park E Ste 1900
Los Angeles , CA 90067-2121
Phone: (310) 586-3889
Email: rosengartm@gtlaw.com
Boston Coll Law School
Mathewis a former supervisory assistant United States attorney and U.S. Department of Justice Trial Attorney, where he received the Justice Department's Special Achievement Award, among other honors, and is now a litigation partner with Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Rosengart has been recognized as one of the nation's leading entertainment litigators in The Hollywood Reporter's "Power Lawyer Report" and Variety's "Legal Impact Report," and he represents an array of high-profile clients in entertainment and complex commercial and business disputes. Rosengart previously served as an adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School where he taught "Criminal Procedure and Grand Jury Law & Practice."
According to conventional wisdom, as a result of their fame (and presumed fortune), celebrities receive preferential treatment in court, as well as in the court of "public opinion." In reality, despite recent anomalies that led TMZ's Harvey Levin to coin the phrase "celebrity justice," nothing could be further from the truth. Targeting celebrities or high-profile individuals (or corporations) is nothing new in the governmental ...
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