Tisdale & Nicholson, LLP

2029 Century Park East, Suite 900

Los Angeles, California 90067

Telephone (310) 286-1260

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MARC R. STAENBERG

Marc Staenberg is an entertainment attorney, with a strong background in both entertainment and business transactions as well as litigation. Mr. Staenberg’s practice includes the full range of entertainment related legal services including representing entertainment companies in business matters, film producers as production counsel, as well as writers, directors, actors and other personalities. Mr. Staenberg remains active in the firm’s business and entertainment litigation matters, including the successful representation of songwriters (e.g., Ritz v. Gaye) and the landmark victory in BMI v. Hirsch.

Mr. Staenberg received his Bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1969 where he was on the Dean’s List. Mr. Staenberg received his Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School-Newark in 1973, where he was Associate Editor of the Rutgers Journal of Computers and the Law, President of the Rutgers Society of International Law, a member of the Jessup International Moot Court Team, and Vice President of the Association of Student International Law Societies, the National Student Body of the American Society of International Law. While at Rutgers Law School, Mr. Staenberg was a Research Assistant to Supreme Court Justice (then Professor) Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 1977, Marc Staenberg received his L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center with a concentration in international and corporate law.

Prior to moving to California in 1980, Mr. Staenberg was an Attorney-Advisor in the Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel (1973-1975) and a Senior Attorney, Office of Legal Director, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1975-1980), in Washington, D.C.

Marc Staenberg is a member of the American Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Beverly Hills Bar Association. With the Beverly Hills Bar Association, he served for four years as Chairman of the Entertainment Law Section (1989-1992), served on the Board of Governors (1993-1997), is on the Resolutions Committee and Legislation Committee, and is a Delegate to the California State Bar Conference of Delegates. In 1997, Mr. Staenberg received the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s "Governor’s Award." He is a Founder of the Los Angeles Music Center and on its Legal Committee, and provides counsel to "A Minor Consideration," an organization for child actors, past and present. Marc Staenberg is the author and/or editor of numerous articles and entertainment related publications, and recently co-authored an article entitled "Children as Chattels: The Disturbing Plight of Child Performers" published in the Beverly Hills Bar Association Journal. This led to Staenberg’s drafting and active participation in California legislation to amend the "Coogan Law" to protect children in the entertainment industry.