October 23, 2013 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum will be chairing the New York City Bar’s annual “Hot Topics in Advertising & Marketing Law” program.  
August 15, 2013 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum will be speaking at the “Licensing IP and Technology” conference in Seattle, Washington.
August 13, 2013
Nicole Hyland will be speaking at a CLE program hosted by PLI entitled “Ethics & Conflicts 2013: How to Handle Client Conflicts 2013.” The program will take place at PLI's New York Conference Center from 9:00 to 11 a.m.      
June 11, 2013 Maura Wogan will be on a NYWIFT panel discussion on reporters' privilege and documentary film production. We will host the event in our boardroom beginning at 6PM
May 28, 2013
Nicole Hyland will be moderating a CLE program hosted by the New York City Bar Association’s Legal Referral Service on the topics of Marketing and Social Media. 
May 20, 2013
Nicole Hyland will be speaking at a CLE program hosted by Fordham Law School entitled “Hot Topics in Legal Ethics.” 
May 16, 2013 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the “Current Ethical Issues for In-House Counsel & Those Who Advise Them" program for the City Bar Center for CLE. 
May 13, 2013 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum hosted “Meet the Regulators,” sponsored by the Brand Activation Association (formerly the PMA). The event featured Bill Effron, Director of the FTC’s Northeast Region, Jane Azia, Director of the New York Attorney General’s Consumer Frauds Bureau, and Marla Tepper, General Counsel of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. 
May 8, 2013 Jeremy Goldman spoke at Inside Counsel's 13th Annual Super Conference on Information Governance: Data Breaches and Security.  
May 7, 2013 Christopher Chase moderated a discussion on “Protecting Athletes’ Trademark Rights and How to Stop the ‘Linsanity’ – a U.S. Perspective” at the International Trademark Association (INTA) annual conference.
May 5, 2013 Jeffrey Greenbaum moderated a discussion at the INTA Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas regarding Hot Topics in Social Media Marketing.  
April 27, 2013

Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at The Justice Media Conference at Brandeis University.  
April 26, 2013 Tom Selz spoke on "crowdfunding" at the Law Society of Upper Canada Entertainment and Media Law Symposium in Toronto.
April 25, 2013 Rick Kurnit spoke at the IBC Advertising Law Conference in London. 
April 23, 2013 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the AICP Digital Town Hall in New York City.
April 23, 2013
Nicole Hyland moderated a CLE program hosted by the New York Women’s Bar Association entitled “Duties, Duties, Duties: What to do When Your Duties to Your Client Conflict With Your Duties to the Court or Third Parties.” The program took place at Frankfurt Kurnit.
April 19, 2013 Christopher Chase spoke on a panel at Fordham Law's Fashion Law Symposium.  
April 19, 2013 Christopher Chase spoke at the Fordham Sports Law Symposium on Morality Clauses and Ethical Issues in Sports Contracting. 
April 19, 2013 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spokeat the 26th annual Media and the Law Seminar in Kansas City on April 19, 2013.  He spoke on “A Marketer Under Every Bed:  Behavioral Targeting and the First Amendment.”  
April 17, 2013

Jeffrey A. Greenbaum conducted a telebriefing, with Michael F. Ostheimer from the Federal Trade Commission, on “FTC Staff Revises Online Advertising Disclosure Guidelines.”  
April 10, 2013 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the AICP Digital Town Hall in Los Angeles, California.
April 10-12, 2013 Rick Kurnit chaired a session and Jessie Beeber spoke at the ABA Antitrust Law Spring Meeting in Washington, DC.
April 9, 2013 Terri Seligman spoke at The Racing Attorney Conference in Indianapolis. 
April 5, 2013 Ronald Minkoff moderated a panel on The Ethical Infrastructure and Culture of Law Firms at Hofstra Law. 
March 28, 2013 Nicole Hyland spoke at a CLE program hosted by PLI entitled “The Ethics Game Show: Matrimonial and Family Law Edition 2013”. The program took place at PLI's New York Conference Center.     
March 21, 2013 S. Gregory Boyd moderated a panel at MIT Business in Games on the competitive gaming industry.
March 19-20, 2013 We sponsored the Q & A portion of the ANA Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference in Washington, DC.   Rick Kurnit, Terri Seligman and Brian Murphy spoke on the 20th.  
March 18, 2013

Nicole Hyland spoke at a CLE program hosted by the NY State Bar Association entitled “Ethics for Business and Transactional Lawyers.”  The program took place at the Concierge Conference Center, New York City.
March 16, 2013 Christopher Chase served as a judge at the Fordham Law National Basketball Negotiation Competition. 
March 14, 2013 Along with the American Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Private Advertising Litigation Committee (“PAL”), we hosted a networking reception for lawyers in the NYC area interested in advertising law and specifically in private advertising litigation. 
March 14, 2013

Lisa Davis participated on a panel on Film Finance at the NFL Hollywood Boot Camp in Los Angeles.

March 12-14, 2013 Brian Murphy spoke at the Second International AMPPI Conference on the role of intellectual property and new technologies in social networks.
March 11, 2013 Glen Westerback gave a presentation on “Legal Essentials of Intellectual Property Protection” to the New York Technology Council.
March 4, 2013 S. Gregory Boyd spoke at PLI's Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2013.  This event took place at PLI's New York Conference Center.
February 28, 2013 Gavin D. McElroy hosted an executive compensation trends event beginning at 6:00 PM in the Frankfurt Kurnit boardroom.
February 12, 2013 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted a CLE program entitled “Ethical Billing Practices and Retainer Agreements” presented by Nicole Hyland.  The program took place at Frankfurt Kurnit’s office at 6:00 p.m. 
February 8, 2013 Hayden Goldblatt spoke to a graduate dramatic writing class at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia (Singapore campus via Skype) about the various types of agreements that a writer may enter into in the motion picture and television industry.
February 8, 2013

Nicole Hyland spoke on a panel hosted by the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) entitled “‘Outlaw’ or ‘Artlaw’: Advertising in the Digital Age.”  The panel took place at APRL’s 2013 mid-year meeting in Dallas, TX.
February 8, 2013 Joseph C. Mahon spoke on NJ Estate Administration for the New York City Bar's Bridging the Gap program.
February 7, 2013 Rick Kurnit spoke on the Hot Topics in Advertising panel at the ABA Antitrust Section's Consumer Protection Conference in Washington DC.
February 5, 2013 Lisa E. Davis and Melissa Georges hosted "All's Not Fair: Copyright and Fair Use -- What Constitutes Protected Parody".  The event took place in the Frankfurt Kurnit offices.
February 1, 2013

Nicole Hyland spoke at a CLE program hosted by PLI entitled “IP Enforcement and Litigation 2013: Criminal and Civil Update.”  The program will take place at PLI’s New York Conference Center.

January 30, 2013 Rachel Kronman hosted an International Trademark Association Roundtable on Trademarks in Social Media in our office from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
January 29, 2013 S. Gregory Boyd spoke at Game On Finance's "The Business of Games" taking place in Toronto. 
January 29, 2013

Richard Maltz and Nicole Hyland spoke at a CLE program hosted by the NY City Bar Association entitled “Ethical Dangers of Lawyers Using Technology & Social Media.”  The program took place at the NY City Bar Association at 9:30 a.m.

January 24-25, 2013 Jeffrey Greenbaum spoke on Crisis Management: Utilizing Morals Clauses and a Quick PR Response to Protect a Celebrity and/or the Brand at the Entertainment Law Summit.
January 7, 2013

Amelia Brankov lectured on copyright and contract law for visual artists at the Fountain Gallery.
December 17, 2012 Nicole Hyland spoke on a panel regarding Staying out of Trouble: What Every Attorney Must Know about Ethics 2012, moderated by Ronald Minkoff.   This event took place at the PLI Institute New York. 
December 12, 2012 Amelia Brankov presented "Chain of Title Issues with Art and Antiquities" at an FKKS CLE event.  
December 6, 2012 Nicole Hyland spoke at the Ethics Game Show hosted by the New York Women's Bar Association.
December 6, 2012 We hosted a marketing CLE titled Fair Use in the Age of Pinterest (6PM). Brian Murphy presented. 
December 5, 2012

Nicole Hyland spoke at NYC Bar Bridge the Gap Program on a panel regarding Attorney Escrow accounts.

December 5, 2012 Jeffrey Greenbaum spoke on a telebriefing for Law Seminars International on the FTC's Final Green Marketing Guides.
December 5, 2012 Nicole Hyland spoke on a panel discussing attorney escrow accounts at the NYC Bar Bridge the Gap Program.  
November 28, 2012 S. Gregory Boyd taught a Continuing Legal Education video game bootcamp seminar for attorneys and video game executives for the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
November 27, 2012 Jerrold Spiegel spoke at NY Technology Council's Legal Startup Series: Part 2 of 3 - Financing the Entity.
November 14, 2012 Christopher Chase gave a presentation on Best Practices for Brands Negotiating Sponsorship Agreements at the  Promotional Marketing Association (PMA) Annual Marketing Law Conference
November 13, 2012 Our Firm once again sponsored the 34th Annual PMA Marketing Law Conference:"Ahead of the Curve: Converging Platforms & Diverging Laws" in Chicago. Rick Kurnit, Jeffrey Greenbaum, Terri Seligman and Christopher Chase spoke at the event.
October 30, 2012 Wendy Stryker spoke about "Combating Workplace Disparity through Legislation" at the Women on the Move 2012 program, held at the Concierge Conference Center.
October 26, 2012 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the annual meeting of the ABA’s Forum on Air & Space Law on October 26, 2012.  He spoke on a panel entitled “Social Media Takes Off.”
October 25, 2012 Glen Westerback spoke at Legal Essentials for Startups: Organizing the Entity for the NY Technology Council. 

October 24, 2012 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the Association of Independent Commercial Producers annual conference on October 24, 2012.  
October 18-19, 2012 Edward H. Rosenthal spoke on rights of publicity and entertainment licensing at PLI's Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2012
October 17, 2012 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum chaired the 11th annual “Hot Topics in Advertising & Marketing Law” program at the New York City Bar.
October 17, 2012 Michael Schiffer spoke at the Talk NYC Tech Madison Avenue event.
October 9, 2012 Gregory Boyd spoke at the Columbia Law School Video Game Law Discussion.  Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored the event.
October 5, 2012 S. Gregory Boyd spoke at the Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo on Building Your Game Business.
October 2, 2012 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted a Gotham Media Interactive Entertainment Panel on "The New Economics of Games". S. Gregory Boyd moderated the event.  
September 25, 2012 Ronald Minkoff moderated PLI's “Bet the Company” Litigation 2012: Best Practices for Complex Cases." 
September 24, 2012 Brian Murphy and Terri Seligman presented at the Advertising Law Institute in Chicago.
September 20, 2012 We are proud to have sponsored "Start UP", presented by the Art Directors Club, 6:00pm - 9:00pm. Jerrold Spiegel and Gavin McElroy were attendees.
September 7, 2012 Christopher Chase spoke about morals and disparagement clauses in endorsement agreements at the University of Texas' Sports and Entertainment Law Conference.
August 29, 2012 Amelia Brankov spoke about appropriation art and fair use on a panel sponsored by the New Jersey State Bar Association. 
August 21, 2012 Glen Westerback spoke at the PluggedIn Ventures’ Mobile App Developers Roundtable hosted by Frankfurt Kurnit. 
August 18, 2012 Amelia Brankov lectured on Copyright Basics for Artists at an event in Woodstock, NY sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
August 1, 2012 Jerrold Spiegel participated in a panel discussion hosted by Gotham Media Ventures on "Crowdfunding - New Opportunities, New Risks" at The Wix Lounge 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
July 25, 2012 Nicole Hyland spoke at "Emerging Ethical Risks for Attorneys" sponsored by the HB Litigation Conference in New York City.
July 9, 2012 Toby Butterfield spoke on Fair Use and Permissions at a Practicing Law Institute Event: "Understanding Copyright Law in the Data Era 2012" in San Francisco and via live webcast.
June 29, 2012 Barbara Shiers hosted the "Columbia Alumni Breakfast Series" at Frankfurt Kurnit's offices.  
June 27, 2012 Nicole Hyland spoke at the "Ethics Game Show", a presentation at the NY City Bar Association.
June 19, 2012 Jessie Beeber spoke on false advertising claims at ACI's 3rd Expert Forum on Litigating and Resolving Advertising Disputes conference in New York City.
June 13, 2012 Amelia Brankov spoke on contract basics for visual artists and writers at the New York Foundation for the Arts.
June 13, 2012 Amelia Brankov lectured on contract basics for visual artists and writers at the New York Foundation for the Arts.
June 7, 2012 Gavin McElroy and Wendy Stryker discussed Hot Topics in Employment Law in a CLE event that offers one credit in areas of professional practice. 
May 17, 2012 Christopher Chase spoke on a NY County Lawyer’s Association panel entitled "Lin-tellectual Property," which focused on trademark, right of publicity, and other IP rights of sports stars. It took place at NYCLA's headquaters.
May 17, 2012 Rick Kurnit spoke at Shoot Magazine’s annual conference with a panel on "Advertising and Entertainment Production: Crossover Lines Continue to Blur" at the DGA Theatre.
May 7, 2012 Terri Seligman presented on "Ignorance Is Bliss: Social Media Compliance for Word of Mouth" at the Word Of Mouth Marketing Association Conference May 8 in Chicago.
April 28, 2012 Amelia Brankov lectured on intellectual property issues for the New York Foundation for the Arts in Woodstock, NY.
April 25, 2012 Terri Seligman spoke at a Social Media program at the Rutgers Center for Management Development.
April 24, 2012 Rick Kurnit presented on “Image Rights for Famous People” at the IBC Advertising and Marketing Law Conference 2012 in London.
April 19, 2012 Melissa Georges taught a class on fair use to documentary fimmakers at the City College of New York.
April 18, 2012 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the “Advertising and Marketing Law” program sponsored by the Washington State Bar Association in Seattle.
April 12, 2012 Glen Westerback moderated the New York Technology Council event, Social Media Do's and Don'ts: Legal Compliance You Will Like, at Eisner Amper. Michael Schiffer was on the panel.
March 29, 2012 Brian Maas and Patrick Boyle presented “The Last Person You’d Suspect: Responding to Employee Dishonesty,” a Continuing Legal Education event, here at our offices.
March 28, 2012 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the 2012 ANA Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.
March 28, 2012 Candice Kersh spoke on "Managing Marketing Service Agreements and Relationships in the Digital World" at the 2012 ANA Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference.
March 28, 2012 Rick Kurnit spoke at the 2012 ANA Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference.
March 28, 2012 Glen Westerback spoke at the "Careers in Technology Law" event hosted by the New York City Bar Association.
March 28, 2012 Glen Westerback spoke on Careers in Technology Law at the City Bar
March 27, 2012 We hosted a Plugged In Ventures roundtable event in our boardroom. The topic was: Mobile Acquisition of Users Through Apps. Jerry Spiegel represented our firm at the event.
March 15, 2012 Rick Kurnit presented “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Courthouse – The Use of Humor in Advertising,”a Continuing Legal Education event, here at our offices.
March 15, 2012 We hosted the Columbia Business School Alumni's “Publishing in the Age of E-Books – Why Don’t E-Books Change?” event beginning at 5:30PM. Mark Merriman moderates the panel, which includes executives from HarperCollins, Barnes & Noble, and Perseus Books.
March 14, 2012 Glen Westerback presented on legal issues surrounding Mobile Apps for the Entertainment Committee of the City Bar
March 13, 2012 Mark Merriman discussed legal theatre issues at a Brooklyn Entertainment and Sports Law Society luncheon.
March 10, 2012 Andrew Hurwitz spoke on film finance at the SXSW (South by Southwest) festival in Austin, Texas. His topic is "Maximizing Revenues."
March 9, 2012 Nicole Hyland chaired the Ethics for Government Lawyers panel discussion at a PLI conference in New York.

March 8, 2012 Jessie Beeber spoke on Internet Surveys at PLI's Hot Topics in Advertising Law conference in New York.
March 5, 2012 Lisa Davis attended The White House Business Council’s briefing organized by New York Council of Urban Professionals and BusinessForward.
March 4, 2012 S. Gregory Boyd will speak at PLI's Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2013.
February 29, 2012 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the C5 forum on “Advertising Law in the Digital Age” in London. Jeff spoke on developing, and challenging, comparative advertising claims on a global basis.
February 22, 2012 Rick Kurnit participated in a teleconference on "Once is Not Enough: The Many Forms in Which Health Care Advertising Challenges Arise" for ABA's Section of Antitrust Law.
February 15, 2012 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum moderated “How Advertising Self-Regulation Benefits Social Media and Marketing,” sponsored by the National Advertising Review Council.  The event, which also featured NARC President Lee Peeler, ERSP Director Peter Marinello, CARU Senior Staff Attorney Andra Dallas, and NAD Senior Staff Attorney Kathryn Ferrara,  was part of Social Media Week. 
February 8, 2012 Joseph C. Mahon will be speaking on NJ Estate Administration for the New York City Bar's Bridging the Gap program.   
February 1, 2012 Amelia Brankov presented “Hot Topics in Art Law” at an FKKS CLE event.
December 19, 2011 Ronald Minkoff chaired the "Staying Out of Trouble: What Every Attorney Must Know About Ethics 2011" CLE seminar at the PLI New York Center.
December 9, 2011 Brian Murphy spoke on publicity and first amendment conflicts at the 20th Annual Law Seminars International's Conference on Cutting Edge issues in Technology and New Media Law in Seattle. For more information, click here.
November 30, 2011 Michael Schiffer spoke on social media and advertising at the 16 Hour Bridge-The-Gap: Ethics, Skills & More program at the New York City Bar Center.
November 16, 2011 Joseph Mahon spoke on Crossing State Borders in Trust & Estate Law: What the New York Practitioner Needs to Know About Florida, New Jersey, Delaware & Connecticut at the New York City Bar.
November 16, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on “Green Advertising” at the PMA Law Conference in Chicago.
November 16, 2011 Joe Mahon spoke on Crossing State Borders in Trust & Estate Law: What the New York Practitioner Needs to Know About Florida, New Jersey, Delaware & Connecticut at the New York City Bar.
November 8, 2011 Ronald Minkoff spoke at "Bet the Company" Litigation 2011: Best Practices for Complex Cases program at the PLI New York Center.
October 26, 2011 Richard Maltz and Nicole Hyland presented a Ethical Issues Confronted During Litigation CLE presentation for the New York County Lawyers' Assocation in New York City.
October 25, 2011 Terri Seligman presented a one-hour telebriefing CLE on online promotions with Law Seminars International.
October 24, 2011 Joseph Mahon presented on Estate Planning for the NYSBA at the New York Hotel Pennsylvania.
October 24, 2011 Joe Mahon presented on Intro to Estate Planning for the NYSBA at the New York Hotel Pennsylvania.
October 21, 2011 Toby Butterfield chaired the Entertainment Business Law Seminar at the 2011 CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival at NYU’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center. For more information, click here.
October 20, 2011 Edward Rosenthal spoke on Rights of Publicity and Entertainment Licensing at 2011 PLI’s Understanding the Intellectual Property License Seminar in New York City.
October 19, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum chaired the 10th Annual Hot Topics in Advertising & Marketing law program at the New York City Bar.
October 6, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on Social Media & Testimonials at the 2011 Electronic Retailing Self-Regulation Program's Advertising Week Summit in New York City.
October 4, 2011 Terri Seligman spoke on "Facebook and Twitter and Blogs, Oh, My! – Navigating Issues in Social Media" at the 2011 NAD Conference at the Ritz Carlton in New York City.
September 20, 2011 Terri Seligman presented a CLE on Promotions Law for Every Attorney at our offices.
September 14, 2011 Ronald Minkoff spoke on "Alternative Litigation Financing: A New Way to Help Pay for Lawsuits and Stay Out of Trouble While Doing It" at the New York County Lawyers' Association CLE Institute.
September 13, 2011 Michael Schiffer spoke on "You Are What You Tweet" at ERA's 2011 D2C Convention in Las Vegas.
September 9, 2011 Brian Murphy presented on "The Rubber Meets the Road: Get Ahead of the Curve in Handling Emerging Marketing Techniques" at PLI's Technology and Entertainment Convergence 2011: Hot Business and Legal Issues in "Technotainment" seminar.
August 29, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at Law Seminar International's Sixth Annual Advanced Conference on New Issues in Today's Licensing Transactions in Seattle.
August 22, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on “Using Testimonial Claims in Social Media Platforms” at the Affiliate Summit East in New York City.
August 8, 2011 Jerry Spiegel and Glen Westerback spoke on Legal Concerns for Startup Companies at the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship’s (NFTE) “Start Up Summer” pilot program at Columbia University.
July 22, 2011 Victoria Cook was a panelist at the 2011 Creative Producing Summit held at the Sundance Resort in Utah.
July 20, 2011 Ronald Minkoff and attorneys from The Bronx Defenders presented "Public Interest Law v. Private Law Practice - Pros and Cons" at our offices.
July 14, 2011 Candice Kersh gave a lesson on Intellectual Property law at Google's Legal Summer School in Mountainview, California
July 12, 2011 Terri Seligman moderated a Gotham Media Breakfast panel on Content & Commerce, Group Commerce, and other eCommerce issues at our offices. Other panelists included executives from Thrillist, Gilt Taste, Plum Willow, and Fast Company Magazine.
June 25, 2011 Amelia Brankov lectured on copyright issues for writers at a New York Foundation for the Arts bootcamp.
June 22, 2011 Mark Merriman spoke at the “Putting it together: An Introduction to Entertainment Law Practice” NYSBA CLE seminar in the Concierge Conference Center New York City.
June 22, 2011 Ronald Minkoff and Nicole Hyland presented a Conflicts of Interest CLE for the New York State Bar Association.
June 22, 2011 Terri Seligman presented "War Stories and Survival Lessons: Learning from Advertising that has been the Focus of Recent Adversarial Proceedings" at American Conference Institute's Litigation & Resolving Advertising Disputes Conference.
June 10, 2011 Brian Murphy presented “Do Cylons Have Rights?”: The Right of Publicity, the First Amendment, and the Digital World at the University of Dayton School of Law's 21st Annual Law & Technology Conference.
June 3, 2011 Candice Kersh spoke on the legal panel at the 2011 AAF National Conference in San Diego.
May 24, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on “Working with an Unworkable Standard: Effectively Using Certification Seals on Packaging with Appropriate Disclosures" at ACI's Green Marketing Compliance Summit in Chicago.
May 24, 2011 Ronald Minkoff presented a program for "Inhouse Counsel and Those who Represent Them" -- on internal investigations -- at the New York City Bar.
May 24, 2011 Jerry Spiegel and Glen Westerback participated in the "There’s a Lawyer for That: A Legal Primer for App Publishers" panel hosted by EisnerAmper. This is a New York Technology Council event.
May 20, 2011 Victoria Cook led an Independent Feature Project Documentary Filmmaker Lab in New York City.
May 19, 2011 Christopher Chase attends the Sports Lawyers Association's Annual Conference in Washington DC.
May 19, 2011 Candice Kersh spoke at the Association of Corporate Counsel Association's Compliance Seminar on crowdsourcing at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. 
May 18, 2011 Rick Kurnit spoke on Right of Publicity Claims (A Plague on Brand Integration) at the 2011 Global Strategic Management Institute's Legal & Social Media Marketing Summit in Boston.
May 14, 2011 Brian Murphy spoke on "The Celebrity Brand: Image and Publicity Rights" at the INTA’s 133rd Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
May 10, 2011 Wendy Stryker and the Urban Justice League presented an anti-SLAPP training program for the Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development.
May 6, 2011 Ronald Minkoff spoke on "Ethics in Anonymity: The Ethical Traps of Anonymizing Technologies" at the 24th Annual Media and the Law Seminar in Kansas City
May 3, 2011 Maura Wogan gave a Fair Use Update presentation at the PLI's Advanced Seminar on Copyright Law 2011.
April 27, 2011 Hayden Goldblatt spoke on an entertainment law panel at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
April 27, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum moderated a panel discussion on "China, the EU and Canada: Defending your Intellectual Property Against the Risks of a Global Advertising Campaign" at the ACI's Advertising IP Forum for Advertising Counsel in New York City.
April 24, 2011 Rick Kurnit will present on “Image Rights for Famous People” at the IBC Advertising and Marketing Law Conference 2012 in London.
April 20, 2011 Richard Hofstetter spoke on “Lockouts, Labor and Emerging Legal Issues in the Sports and Entertainment Industries” at Rutgers Law School.
April 20, 2011 Nicole Hyland spoke on "My First Ethical Dilemma: A Program for Law Students" at the New York City Bar.
April 20, 2011 Nicole Hyland spoke on "My First Ethical Dilemma: A Program for Law Students" for the New York City Bar Association.
April 11, 2011 Candice Kersh spoke on the Compensation Innovation Panel: Exploring New Fee Models at the Mirren New Business Conference in Digital Sandbox Network in New York City.
April 4, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on "Getting the Most Bang Out of a Social Media Boom" at New York Law School.
March 30, 2011 Rick Kurnit was part of a mock damages hearing in the Lanham Act false advertising case at the ABA Antitrust Law Spring Meeting in Washington, DC.
March 23, 2011 Mark Merriman spoke at Brooklyn Entertainment and Sports Law Society's "The Law of the Stage: Issues in Theatre Law" event at Brooklyn Law School.
March 21, 2011 Cameron Myler spoke at the "Women in Sports: Achievements, Progress, Barriers" panel presentation at NYU.
March 18, 2011 H. Sujin Kim and Terri Seligman gave a presentation on Cause-Related Marketing and Corporate Sponsorship to members of the Lawyers Alliance in New York.
March 17, 2011 Lisa Davis spoke on IP Alchemy: Monetizing Stale Copyright and Trademark Portfolios to Spawn Fresh Revenue Streams at the MCCA CLE Expo in Chicago.
March 16, 2011 Rick Kurnit spoke on Right of Publicity Claims in Integrated Content at the Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference in Washington, DC.
March 14, 2011 S. Jean Ward spoke on "Overview of Entertainment Law Issues; Television, Video & User-Generated Content; Theater; Building an Entertainment Law Practice; Ethics” at PLI’s Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2011 program in New York City.
March 10, 2011 Barbara Shiers, Joe Mahon, and Peter Prentis of Prentis Wealth/Wells Fargo hosted Investing and Estate Planning: New Laws and Strategies in our boardroom.
March 10, 2011 Edward Rosenthal spoke on Copyright Basics at the New York City Bar.
March 10, 2011 Barbara Shiers, Joe Mahon, and Peter Prentis of Prentis Wealth/Wells Fargo hosted Investing and Estate Planning: New Laws and Strategies in our boardroom.
March 7, 2011 Candice Kersh spoke on "Transforming Agency/Client Terms and Agreements" at the 4A's Transformation 2011 conference in Austin.
March 3, 2011 Melissa Georges was a guest lecturer at the City University of New York in a class for graduate students in film production, speaking about legal issues affecting filmmakers.
March 1, 2011 Jessie Beeber spoke at the Professional Liability & Legal Ethics: Preventing, Defending & Obtaining Insurance for Claims Against Law Firms seminar at the New York City Bar Center.
March 1, 2011 Jessie Beeber spoke at the Professional Liability & Legal Ethics: Preventing, Defending & Obtaining Insurance for Claims Against Law Firms seminar at the City Bar Center.
February 28, 2011 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum will speak on "Building in Recent Regulatory and Case Law Developments into Your Comparative Advertising Campaign and What To Do If a Competitor Steps Out of Line" at the C5’s Advertising Law conference in London.
February 24, 2011 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted a Columbia Business School Alumni club event featuring Leo Hindery, Jr. of the Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, LP. Tom Selz introduced Mr. Hindery.
February 15, 2011 Brian Murphy and Terri Seligman presented Social Media Compliance for Businesses -- here in our offices. They were joined by Jake Feldman of Johnson & Johnson. This was a CLE course for Association of Corporate Counsel members.
February 11, 2011 Terri Seligman spoke on Structuring Sweepstakes & Contests in a Digital Age at the New York City Bar's Sweepstakes, Promotions & Marketing Laws: Comprehension & Compliance program in New York City.
February 9, 2011 Edward Rosenthal and Maura Wogan spoke on the Salinger v. Colting case at the Los Angeles Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA.
February 3, 2011 Terri Seligman spoke "The Winning Strategy for False Advertising Cases: NAD or Federal Courts, or Both?" at the ABA's Consumer Protection Conference in Washington, DC.
February 2, 2011 H. Sujin Kim spoke on Charitable Solicitation and Cause-Related Marketing at PLI's Advising Nonprofit Organizations 2011 program at the PLI New York Center.
January 31, 2011 Joe Mahon spoke at the 16-hour New Jersey Bridge-the-Gap program at the City Bar Center for CLE.
January 21, 2011 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the PLI's 2011 Bridge the Gap program at Brooklyn Law School.
January 7, 2011 Jessie Beeber spoke at the PLI Expert Witness 2011 seminar at the PLI New York Center.
December 9, 2010 Brian Murphy spoke on "Social Media: Taking Advantage of Changing Opportunities While Recognizing and Minimizing the Risks" at the Law Seminars International 19th Annual Seattle Conference on Current Developments in Technology Law.
December 3, 2010 Our annual Gotham Media 2011 Forecast Breakfast was held in the boardroom. Lisa Davis moderated a panel that included Jim Gaines, the former publisher of Life magazine, Paul Kontonis of The Third Act (Digitas), Andrew Morse of ABC News, and others.
November 19, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on "Advanced Advertising" at the annual Promotion Marketing Association Law Conference in Chicago. Candice Kersh also spoke on IP Issues in Advertising.
November 19, 2010 Rick Kurnit spoke on Endorsements and Testimonials at PMA's 32nd Annual Marketing Law Conference in Chicago.
November 10, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on New Changes to the FTC's Green Guides at the Law Seminars International's Telebriefing.
November 9, 2010 Ronald Minkoff spoke on Curernt Ethical Issues in Complex Litigations at the PLI's "Bet the Company" Litigation 2010 seminar at the PLI New York Center.
November 8, 2010 Mark Merriman was a featured panelist at “Media Masala – Current Trends and Issues in US – India Film, Television and Music Programming, Production and Distribution” at the New York City Bar Association.
October 27, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum chaired the City Bar's annual "Hot Topics in Advertising and Marketing Law" program.
October 26, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the Association for Independent Commercial Producers' "Lawyers on the Clock" panel at the TimesCenter in New York. The panel is part of AICP's 2010 annual conference.
October 21, 2010 Edward Rosenthal presented Rights of Publicity and Entertainment at PLI's Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2010 in New York.
October 7, 2010 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the NJ CLE program "The Business of Law: Does It Have to Be Profits vs. Ethics."  He focused on alternative billing, non-lawyer equity compensation, and management of firms by non-lawyers.
September 30, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at ACCA's Annual Compliance Seminar at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Jeff discussed advertising compliance under the Obama Administration. Our firm is an ACCA sponsor.
September 29, 2010 Three of our attorneys participated in the MLRC/NAA 2010 Media Law Conference in Virginia.  Maura Wogan moderated a panel discussion on issues arising from the Colting v. Salinger litigation. Ronald Minkoff presented Ethics in the Electronic Era at this event. And Rick Kurnit presented on Privacy, Publicity, and Use and Protection of Data.
September 29, 2010 Richard Maltz spoke at the City Bar Center for CLE's Bridge-the-Gap Corporate Program on "Escrow Accounts: Learn the Rules/Avoid the Pitfalls" in New York City.  To register or learn more about this program, click here.
September 29, 2010 Three of our attorneys participated in the MLRC/NAA 2010 Media Law Conference in Virginia.  Maura Wogan moderated a panel discussion on issues arising from the Colting v. Salinger litigation. Ronald Minkoff presented Ethics in the Electronic Era at this event. And Rick Kurnit presented on Privacy, Publicity, and Use and Protection of Data.
September 13, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on "Growing Pains of Going Green: Trials and Tribulations of 'Green" Marks and Marketing" at the Intellectual Property Owners Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
August 26, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on "Special Considerations for Social Media and Online Marketing: Defining Who Is Responsible for What When Problems Arise" at the Law Seminars Licensing Transactions Conference in Seattle.  To learn more about this event, click here.
August 6, 2010 Rick Kurnit spoke on The Right of Publicity: From Hollywood to DC/From Pop Stars to Politicians at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
August 5, 2010 Tom Selz spoke on a panel at a meeting of "Harvardwood" -- a nonprofit group of Harvard alumni, students, faculty and staff working in media and entertainment.
June 30, 2010 Richard Hofstetter presented a keynote speech at the 22nd Transatlantic Dialogue during the Media Forum Westphalia in Cologne Germany. He discussed Contractual Relations Between TV Producers and Program Providers in the US. The Forum is one of Europe's most important media conferences.
June 28, 2010 Jessie Beeber spoke at ACI's Food Safety Regulatory Compliance event in Chicago.
June 28, 2010 Lisa Davis was honored as Lawyer of the Year by the Metropolitan Black Bar Association at their 26th annual Awards Dinner at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn Navy Yard. United States Attorney General Eric Holder was also honored.
June 28, 2010 Ronald Minkoff presented on Ethics for the Entertainment Lawyer, a CLE for the New York City Bar.
June 18, 2010 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted "The Business of Facebook" Gotham Media Ventures Digital Breakfast event at our offices. Panelists include David Berkowitz of 360i, Adam Elend of Bright Red Pixels and WallStrip, David Kirkpatrick, Author of The Facebook Effect, Ian Spalter of R/GA, and Jerry Spiegel. The panelists discussed Facebook's business model and privacy concerns, and how this social media platform has made itself a seemingly indispensable tool of both popular culture and a large swath of American business.
June 17, 2010 Tom Selz presented a "Can Characters Be Protected by Copyright and/or Trademark Law?" CLE luncheon at the offices of Frankfurt Kurnit.
June 16, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on Inside Strategies for Effectively Utilizing the NAD to Resolve Advertising Disputes at ACI's Litigating and Resolving Advertising Disputes event.
June 11, 2010 Brian Murphy spoke on "Music Makes the People Come Together: The Anatomy of a Copyright Music Infringement Lawsuit" at the Computer and Cyberspace Law Seminar at the University of Dayton Law School in Ohio.
June 11, 2010 Wendy Stryker presented a CLE luncheon focusing on how employers can avoid liability for hostile work environments, and for discrimination in hiring and other situations at the offices of Frankfurt Kurnit.
June 9, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum will speak on Engaging in Compliant Green Marketing Practices in Today's Regulatory Environment and Advertising Law 360°: Creating and Managing Global Advertising Campaigns at C5's 3rd Advertising Law Forum.
June 9, 2010 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted a Sanders Consulting New York New Business Energizer event at our offices. Gavin McElroy and Bob Sanders, President of Sanders Consulting Group led a discussion on how to conduct business in an evolving business and legal climate.
June 3, 2010 Rick Kurnit presented at the ALI/ABA Product Distribution and Marketing Conference in Chicago on Advertising Liability and Intellectual Property in Marketing Communications.
June 3, 2010 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted "What's in a Name?: The Business of Celebrity Branding" event at our offices. Panelists included Ed Horne of Madison Avenue Sports & Entertainment, John Caplan of OpenSky, Cory Baker of Iconix Brand Group, Inc., Andy Cohan of ACI Licensing and Michael Williams.  Among the topics were recent trends in branding, how managers and agents locate opportunities, comparing luxury and mass-market opportunities, and more.
June 2, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum participated in a COPPA Rule Review Roundtable on "Protecting Kids' Privacy Online" at the FTC Conference Center in Washington, DC.
May 25, 2010 Ronald Minkoff will speak at the New York City Bar's "Ethics for In-House Counsel" CLE program.
May 18, 2010 Ronald Minkoff will speak at a webinar sponsored by SuperLawyers on New York advertising rules.
April 28, 2010 Frankfurt Kurnit will host Talk NYC's next event -- a cocktails and content evening from 6:00PM to 8:00PM featuring a panel discussion of executives from Discovery Communications, Ansible Mobile Media (IPG), and Rhythm New Media.  Jason Kessler will host and introduce the panel.
April 28, 2010 Richard Maltz will speak at a telebriefing on the implications of the ruling on the Alexander v. Cahill case for Law Seminars International.
April 27, 2010 Glen Westerback presented as part of a panel on the topic of "Cyberlaw and Cyberlawyering" at Cardozo law school.
April 22, 2010 Lisa Davis presented on film finance at the Tribeca Film Festival.
April 20, 2010 Rick Kurnit spoke on Rights of Publicity at the NYSBA's Advising Clients on the Creation & Content of Their Web Sites teleconference.
April 16, 2010 Richard Maltz presented at the New York State Bar Association's Introductory Lessons on Ethics and Civility for 2010 event at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. Rich spoke on the What's New for 2010 on Ethics panel.
April 16, 2010 Ronald Minkoff chaired a panel on "The Disciplinary Process: The Next 20 Years" at the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers' 20th Anniversary Celebration in New Orleans.
April 8, 2010 Lisa Davis and H. Sujin Kim attended the Council of Urban Professionals Annual Leadership Gala at ESPACE in New York City.
April 7, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented a webinar on legal issues in user generated content for the American Intellectual Property Association.
April 2, 2010 Jerry Spiegel & Glen Westerback spoke on legal concepts related to starting a business at the National Foundation of Teaching Entrepreneurship's Bizcamp for Adjudicated Youth event in Long Island City.
March 22, 2010 Our firm hosted Fair Use -- the latest in our Gotham Media Breakfast Series -- in our boardroom. Rick Kurnit chaired a panel that included Cameron Stracher of NYLS (formerly CBS Litigation Counsel) and Bill Rosenblatt of GiantSteps Media.
March 18, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke on "The Greening of America" at the Association of National Advertisers Advertising Law and Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.
March 17, 2010 Rick Kurnit spoke at the ANA Advertising Law & Public Affairs Conference on FTC Endorsement and Testimonial guidelines in Washington, DC. The firm sponsored this event.
March 10, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum led a breakfast panel discussion on advertising compliance for corporate counsel in our boardroom.  He discussed why you need an advertising compliance program, how to assess your major advertising risks, how you roll out a sucessful advertising program and get buy-in from your marketing department, and critical advertising compliance issues and key areas to watch out for in 2010.  The event was sponsored by LexisNexis and The Corporate Lawyering Group.
March 10, 2010 Rick Kurnit presented a CLE to ACCA Advertising Committee members in our boardroom on how to train your corporate marketing department to respect and clear the intellectual property rights in marketing executions.
March 9, 2010 Rick Kurnit spoke at the Distributed Computing Industry Association's (DCIA) inaugural P2P & CLOUD MARKET CONFERENCE which was held in conjunction with Media Summit New York (MSNY) at the Princeton Club of New York.
March 9, 2010 Rick Kurnit spoke at the Distributed Computing Industry Association's (DCIA) inaugural P2P & CLOUD MARKET CONFERENCE that was held in conjunction with Media Summit New York (MSNY) at the Princeton Club of New York.
March 6, 2010 Richard Heller participated in a panel discussion on entrepreneurship at Brown University's 13th Annual Entrepreneurial Program Forum.
March 1, 2010 Rick Kurnit spoke on "Intellectual Property's Role in Transforming Agency Business" at the American Assocation of Advertising Agencies 2010 Transformation Conference in San Francisco.
February 25, 2010 Wendy Stryker spoke at the Columbia University's Entertainment, Art and Sports Law Society practitioner panel. This panel gave current Columbia University law students the ability to ask questions to entertainment lawyers about their practice, their career and their advice for those who want to enter the field of entertainment law.
February 10, 2010 Glen Westerback spoke on the legal hurdles facing technology startup clients at the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic at Brooklyn Law School.
February 4, 2010 Candice Kersh presented a CLE on branded entertainment for in-house lawyers at NBC Universal.
January 27, 2010 Lisa Davis was a panelist on "Social Media in a Free Society: Good or Bad for Democracy, for Business, for Individual Privacy?" for the Presidential Summit at the NYSBA Annual Meeting.
January 27, 2010 Lisa Davis served on the "Social Media in a Free Society: Good or Bad for Democracy, for Business, for Individual Privacy?" panel at the Presidential Summit portion of the NYSBA Annual Meeting.
January 26-27, 2010 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum co-chaired the ACI's 23rd National Advanced Forum on Advertising Law in New York City on January 26-27, 2010.  He also spoke on "Engaging in Compliant Green Marketing Practices in an Uncertain Regulatory Environment."
January 25, 2010 Edward Rosenthal spoke at the NYSBA Entertainment Arts and Sports Law Annual Meeting's "From Conception to the Public Domain or Perhaps to Infinity and Beyond: The Life Cycle of Fictional Character" panel at the New York Hilton.
January 23, 2010 Lisa Davis spoke at the Sundance Film Festival's Black House's independent film finance panel.
January 14, 2010 Lisa Davis chaired the Gotham Media Ventures Digital Forecast 2010 panel at the offices of Frankfurt Kurnit.
December 21, 2009 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the PLI's "Staying Out of Trouble 2009" webcast on avoiding ethical pitfalls surrounding the lateral movement of lawyers, the use of the Internet, and attorney fee agreements.
December 10-11, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum and Brian G. Murphy spoke at Law Seminars International's Technology law conferene in Seattle, Washington.
December 9, 2009 Barbara Shiers, Linda Wank, Lisa Davis, and H. Sujin Kim attended the 29th Annual New York Women in Film & Television MUSE Awards luncheon for Outstanding Vision and Achievement honoring America Ferrera, Julianna Margulies, Allison Silverman and Andrea Wong. The event was held at the New York Hilton.
December 2, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum and Michael Schiffer spoke on advertising and marketing at the New York City Bar's Bridge the Gap program.
November 20, 2009 Maura Wogan was a featured panelist on Intellectual Property Issues Facing Celebrities and Entertainment Companies at the 2009 Entertainment Symposium at Harvard Law School.
November 18, 2009 Jerry Spiegel was a panelist at the Digital Mission to New York '09 event speaking on the best ways to pitch digital companies in the United Kingdom in New York. The event took place at Roger Smith Hotel in New York City.
November 12, 2009 Candice Kersh spoke on the "Gambling, Gaming, Sweepstakes, and Lottery" panel at the 2009 Sports, Entertainment & IP Law Conference in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
November 10, 2009 Ronald Minkoff spoke at PLI's 2009 Bet the Company Litigation CLE event on current ethical issues in complex litigation. The event was held at the PLI New York Center.
November 5, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum and Rick Kurnit spoke at the annual PMA Law Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
November 4, 2009 Cameron Myler joined other Olympic athletes and the USOC to officially recognize the first athletes to be nominated to the 2010 U.S. Olympic Team. "Making Team USA: 100 Days to Vancouver" took place at Rockefeller Center.
November 4, 2009 Ronald Minkoff presented a one credit ethics CLE on the issues arising from email communications and social networking in our boardroom.
November 2, 2009 Linda Wank spoke at the Connecticut Bar Association's Estates & Probate Section meeting at the Quinnipiack Club in CT. Linda's topic was: estate planning for authors and artists.
October 30, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum chaired the City Bar's annual "Hot Topics in Advertising and Marketing Law - 2009" program.
October 28, 2009 Candice Kersh spoke at the 4A's Advertising Legal Affairs Committee meeting on "Digital Ownership and Use-Contracting Considerations".
October 23, 2009 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the New York City Bar's "Bridge the Gap" program on Transactional Conflicts.
October 22, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum moderated "FTC Endorsement Guide" telebriefing, sponsored by Law Seminars International.
October 22, 2009 Gavin McElroy participated in a breakfast panel discussion on executive compensation. We co-sponsored the event with Empire Valuation Consultants in New York.
October 21, 2009 Richard Maltz served as Program Chair for Ethical Issues Routinely Confronted by Solo & Small Firm Practitioners -- a City Bar CLE.
October 16, 2009 Ronald Minkoff spoke on Transactional Conflicts at the New York City Bar Association's Bridge the Gap CLE program.
October 15, 2009 Ronald Minkoff spoke on "Lawyers in Transition" at the ACIS Annual Meeting in New York City's Roosevelt Hotel.
October 14, 2009 Ronald Minkoff was a part of a Gotham Media panel discussion at NY Law School focusing on the legal ethics of social networking for lawyers.
October 9, 2009 Cameron Myler spoke on the sports, media, and entertainment law panel at the Dartmouth Lawyers' Association's annual meeting at Simpson Thacher's offices in New York.
October 9, 2009 Rick Kurnit spoke on "Life Cycle of an International License: Monetizing and Harmonizing Rules and Revenues" at the annual ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.
October 7, 2009 Brian Murphy spoke on "The Rules of the Digital Playground: Legal Compliance for your avatars, Virtual Pets, and Beyond" at the CARU Annual Conference in New York City.
October 6, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the NAD Annual Conference in New York, New York.
September 24, 2009 Lisa Davis was a featured panelist at BET Network's 13th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival at a session entitled "I’ve Made My Film: Now What?" in New York.
September 23, 2009 Rick Kurnit and Brian Murphy hosted the meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel's Advertising and Marketing Law Committee.  Topic: How to Use Social Networking to Support Marketing.
September 15, 2009 We attended the Working Mother magazine's Gala luncheon honoring the law firms included in this year's list of the Top 50 Law Firms for Women. Lisa Davis accepted the award for our firm -- which made the list for the first time this year.
September 15, 2009 Nicole Hyland spoke on Transactional Conflicts of Interest at a Lorman Education Services seminar.
August 20, 2009 Jeffrey Greenbaum presented "Emerging Issues in New Media Advertising Business Models and Transactions" at Law Seminars International's "IP Licensing 2009" conference in Seattle, WA.
August 12, 2009 Glen Westerback served as a panelist at Startup Alpha's event "On-Demand Technology Startup Strategies and Tactics" at Select Office Suites.
August 11, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented "Hot Topics in Marketing Compliance and Enforcement" at the Affiliate Summit East 2009 in New York City.
July 31, 2009 Brian Murphy spoke on the Recent Pitfalls in Online Music Distribution at the 2009 ABA Annual Meeting in New York.
July 24, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “How Data is Collected Today and Used: Behavioral Advertising and Other New Ways of Collecting Information” at the Law Seminars International Data Collection and Aggregation Conference in Seattle.
July 23, 2009 Mark Merriman and Maura Wogan presented a Meeting of the Minds CLE on publishing agreement traps to avoid in our boardroom.
June 26, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “How Easy Is It To Be Green?” at the North American South Asian Bar Association Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada.
June 16, 2009 Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored a complimentary Gotham Media panel discussion hosted by Fiduciary Trust Company International on The New Economy-Investment Psychology: Opportunities and Vulnerabilities.  Edward Ames was on the panel for Frankfurt Kurnit.
June 15, 2009 Richard Maltz spoke at the City Bar's Entertainment Law Ethics Program.
June 15, 2009

Ronald Minkoff spoke on Ethical Issues Associated With Attorney Departures at PLI's Employment Discrimination Claims 2009 Seminar in New York.
June 11, 2009 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted a Gotham Media/Intelligent Television panel discussion on documentary film and other nonfiction content financing. Hamish Berry was on the panel for Frankfurt Kurnit. 
June 8, 2009 Richard Maltz co-presented a one credit CLE teleconference titled Ethical Tips and Traps for the Advertising Lawyer -- a nontransitional CLE course focusing on the New York Advertising Rules. The event was co-sponsored by Super Lawyers.
May 28, 2009 We hosted a Gotham Media breakfast finance panel discussion. The topic was "incubators" and "strategic partners" as alternate funding sources. Jerry Spiegel was on the panel for Frankfurt Kurnit.
May 21, 2009 Tom Selz presented a Meeting of the Minds CLE: An Oral Agreement Isn't Worth the Paper It's Printed On -- Or Is It?
May 19, 2009 Jerry Spiegel and Glen Westerback presented a Meeting of the Minds CLE on Open Source software licensing in our boardroom.
May 12, 2009 We hosted a meeting of the Licensing Executives Society that includes a presentation on clean technologies.
April 23, 2009 Lisa Davis was the emcee for the National Bar Association's Herman Sweatt Award Reception at the New York Hilton. Honorees include James Lipscomb of MetLife, Teri McClure of UPS, Jim Potter of Del Monte, and Leslie Turner of Coca Cola. 
April 23, 2009 Tom Selz was part of a film finance incentives panel discussion at the Tribeca Film Festival.
April 17, 2009 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented "User Generated Content Issues" at the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division (NAD) and Children's Advertising Review Unit event in New York City.
April 14, 2009 Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored the Association of Corporate Counsel's annual compliance seminar at the University Club. Ronald Minkoff spoke on Responding to Government Inquiries.
April 14, 2009 Richard Maltz chaired the City Bar program: Out with the Code, In With the Rules -- What's New About the New Ethics Rules, And What's Not.
March 31, 2009 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted a Licensing Executives Society panel discussion on the use of Open Source material in Web site, software, and other executions. Jerry Spiegel moderated.
March 30, 2009 “Lessons from the World of Advertising: Risk and Reward in User Generated Content Promotions and Other Cutting Edge Marketing,” IP Licensing in 2009 Conference, Law Seminars International, Austin, Texas
March 27, 2009 Cameron Myler spoke on a panel of Olympic and professional athletes at an Olympic Power of One program at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
March 19, 2009 Rick Kurnit presented two Webcasts as part of the ALI-ABA annual Product Distribution and Marketing conference in Charleston SC. Rick's presentations were: Intellectual Property Protection, and Advertising and Unfair Competition Issues.
March 19, 2009 Ronald Minkoff presented Ethical Considerations in Elder Law as part of the 21st Annual Elder Law Institute PLI Webcast.
March 18, 2009 Alison Cohen spoke on Film: Key Legal Issues in the Development, Financing, Production & Distribution of Theatrical Motion Pictures at PLI's seminar "Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry" in New York.
March 17, 2009 Rick Kurnit gave a keynote address at the Distributed Computing Industry Association's P2P Market Conference, held at the Cornell Club, in conjunction with Digital Hollywood's Media Summit.
March 16, 2009 Ronald Minkoff was chair of the New York City Bar's Ethical Issues for Trusts and Estates Lawyers seminar which will examine some of the most pressing professional responsibility issues T&E lawyers face.
March 12, 2009 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted the NYS Bar Association's Webinar "Clearing Web Site Content: Advising Clients on the Creation and Content of Their Web Sites." Rick Kurnit was part of the faculty which includes in house counsel from HBO and The New Yorker magazine.
March 12, 2009 Brian Murphy presented The Wonderful World of User-Generated Content at the New York City Bar's Current Developments in Copyright Law seminar.
March 12, 2009 Lisa Davis spoke on ethics and client relationships at PLI's Success Strategies for New Partners event.
March 12, 2009 Brian Murphy spoke on "User Generated Content" at the New York City Bar.
March 11, 2009 Candice Kersh presented a 90 minute Branded Entertainment Law CLE here in our boardroom as part of our Meeting of the Minds series.
March 11, 2009 Brian Murphy presented "What's Left of IP in the Digital Age"? at the 2009 ANA Advertising Law and Business Affairs conference at the Grand Hyatt in New York. Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored this event.
March 11, 2009 Christopher Chase spoke at the New York County Lawyers' Association's Forum on Representing Athletes in Endorsement Agreements.
March 10, 2009 Brian Murphy spoke at the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association regarding the legal issues and challenges surrounding the formation of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum.
March 5, 2009 Melissa Georges taught a graduate class on Fair Use Issues in Documentary Film at CCNY.
March 4, 2009 Ronald Minkoff presented Ethical Issues Facing Inside Counsel at the New York City Bar.
March 4, 2009 Candice Kersh spoke at the 4A's Media Conference in New Orleans. Candice's panel discussion was titled: "New Business Models and Monetization of Marketing Service Agency Ideas & Work."
February 18, 2009 Candice Kersh gave an advertising law presentation at Crispin Porter + Bogusky's Boulder Colorado offices.
February 11, 2009 Linda Wank and Barbara Shiers co-chaired a CLE panel discussion on estate planning issues with members of Fiduciary Trust Company International here in our boardroom.
February 10, 2009 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted a Gotham Media Breakfast on The 2009 Digital Media Forecast. Panelists included Josh Steiner from Quadrangle Group and Scott Meyer from Warburg Pincus.
February 5, 2009 Candice Kersh gave an advertising law presentation at Crispin Porter + Bogusky's Miami offices.
January 28, 2009 Ronald Minkoff presented: Don't Hand Over the Bling: Controlling Costs in Electronic Discovery, at the NYS Bar Association's Committee on Law Practice Management CLE event at the New York Marriott Marquis.
January 27, 2009 Brian Murphy spoke at the American Conference Institute's 22nd Advertising Law conference in New York. He spoke on "Protecting IP and Avoiding Third-Party Liability While Reaping the Benefits of User Generated Content and Social Networking Sites."
January 22, 2009 Rick Kurnit presented Legal Developments in America at The Canadian Institute's 15th annual Advertising and Marketing Law conference. Rick spoke on brand integration, performance claims, substantiation, endorsements, and the right of publicity.
December 22, 2008 Ronald Minkoff chaired PLI's Staying Out of Trouble conference in New York.
December 12, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented "Sweepstakes and Contests" at the New York City Bar.
December 11, 2008 Candice Kersh attended a planning meeting for members of the Society of Digital Agencies (SODA) and the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
December 11, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Green Marketing” at the Law Seminars International Technology Law Conference in Seattle.
December 9, 2008 Frankfurt Kurnit hosted a Gotham Media Ventures breakfast on the state of the mobile video industry here in our boardroom from 8:00am to 9:30am. Jerry Spiegel moderated.
December 3, 2008 Candice Kersh spoke at Osborne Clarke's 10th Annual Marketing Law Forum in London. She will present "Key US Risks and Developments for UK Marketers."
November 24, 2008 Ronald Minkoff participated in a mock Departmental Disciplinary Committee hearing -- The Disciplinary Process: How it Works -- presented by the New York City Bar.
November 20, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “What Were They Thinking: Current Regulator Hot Buttons” at the 30th Annual Promotion Marketing Association Law Conference in Chicago.
November 20, 2008 Jerry Spiegel spoke on open source vs. proprietary licensing at a meeting of the Licensing Executives Society.
November 19, 2008 Melissa Georges taught a class on press access and other legal issues impacting journalists at NYU Law School.
November 19, 2008 Ronald Minkoff presented a seminar on Ethical Issues in Trusts and Estates Practice at the Yale Club in New York. The event was sponsored by Savings Bank of Long Island.
November 18, 2008 Candice Kersh spoke on the Mobile Advertising panel at the TM Forum Digital Commerce and Advertising Summit in Orlando.
November 18-19, 2008 Gavin McElroy spoke on the advertising panel at Digital Media Wire's Future of Television event at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC. Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored this event.
November 17, 2008 Gavin McElroy gave a presentation on valuing interactive marketing services companies for a group of NYU/Poly Tech MBA students here in our boardroom.
November 11, 2008 Ned Rosenthal and Rick Kurnit led an Association of Corporate Counsel breakfast panel discussion titled "Disposing of Vexatious IP Claims" in the Frankfurt Kurnit office.
November 6, 2008 Victoria Cook spoke on the Independent Feature Project's panel at the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council's Film Festival in New York.
October 27, 2008 Edward Rosenthal spoke on Rights of Publicity and Entertainment Licensing at the PLI event "Understanding the IP License" in New York.
October 24, 2008 Ronald Minkoff spoke on ethical issues and attorney advertising at the NYS Bar Association's Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section Music Business Law Seminar at the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival at NYU.
October 24, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the “FTC at 100” event at the Federal Trade Commission in New York City.
October 23, 2008 Cameron Myler spoke on the "Intellectual Property Aspects of Sports and Entertainment Properties" at the U.S. Sports Film Festival in Philadelphia.
October 22, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Hot Topics in Advertising and Marketing Law - 2008” at the New York City Bar.
October 17, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “User Generated Content Issues” at the New York State Bar Association's Intellectual Property Law Section Fall Meeting in Cooperstown, New York.
October 1-3, 2008 Lisa Davis spoke in Beverly Hills at the Corporate Counsel Women of Color Career Strategies Conference. Her panel -- Decision 2008 -- included former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun. Lisa also attended the annual Black Filmmaker Foundation Summit.
September 24, 2008 Rick Kurnit attended the 2008 Children's Advertising Review Unit's annual conference at the W Hotel in New York. Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored this event.
September 23, 2008 Candice Kersh and Victoria Cook spoke at the ATLAS Information Group's 8th Annual International Film & TV Finance Summit in New York.
September 21-22, 2008 Brian Murphy spoke at the Electronic Retail Association's 18th Annual Conference in Las Vegas. On Monday, Brian gave a presentation entitled "IP Advertising Cases of the Year." On Tuesday, Brian spoke about IP issues as part of ERA's Accredidation program.
September 19, 2008 Ronald Minkoff presented a legal ethics seminar for Lorman Seminars in New York.
September 17-19, 2008 Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored the NAA/NAB/MLRC Media Law Conference in Chantilly, VA.
September 10-11, 2008 Brian Murphy spoke at the Cusp Conference 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Theatre in Chicago.
September 10-11, 2008 Rick Kurnit spoke on "The Right of Publicity in the Internet Age" in Cleveland on September 10th and in Cincinnati on September 11th as part of The 18th All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property.
September 3, 2008 Ned Rosenthal spoke at PLI's Technology and Entertainment Convergence 2008: Technotainment Business and Legal Issues program in New York.
August 22, 2008 “Developments in New Media Advertising,” Complex IP Licensing 2008 Conference, Law Seminars International, Seattle, Washington
August 11, 2008 “Hot Topics in Affiliate Marketing,” Affiliate Summit 2008 East, Boston, Massachusetts
August 7, 2008 Rick Kurnit presented How to Cross Market Your Client Across Multi-Media Platforms at the ABA Annual Meeting Section of IP LAW Events at the Waldorf. The event is sponsored by the ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.
July 11, 2008 Brian Murphy presented "Developments in New Media Advertising" at Law Seminars International's two day Technology Law conference in Boise, ID.
July 8, 2008 Ronald Minkoff spoke at PLI's Attorney-Client Privilege and Internal Investigations program.
July 2, 2008 Ned Rosenthal reprised his presentation, "Copyright Termination: Issues for Publishers and Their Authors" at a meeting of the American Association of Publishers.
June 24, 2008 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the Association of Corporate Counsel's Ethics Marathon at the Marriott Marquis/Times Square.
June 23, 2008 Rich Maltz presented "Current Ethical Issues for Entertainment Lawyers" at the New York City Bar Association.
June 18, 2008 “Benchmarking Clients’ Advertising Practices Against the Best Practices of Self-Regulated Industries,” Advertisers' & Marketers' Regulatory Summit 2008, American Conference Institute, Washington, D.C
June 11, 2008 Rick Kurnit presented at the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court.
June 6, 2008 Brian Murphy was a featured speaker at the Significant Developments in Computer and Cyberspace Law Conference held at the University of Dayton School of Law.  His presentation is entitled "The Wonderful World of User Generated Content."
June 5, 2008

Brian Murphy visited client Hitchcock Fleming & Associates in Akron, OH where he gave a legal seminar entitled "Marketing Law Boot Camp."
June 2, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Viral and Word-of-Mouth Marketing” at the eHavioral, Peer-to-Peer, and New Media Marketing Conference in Seattle.
June 2, 2008 Ronald Minkoff presented "What Every Trusts and Estates Attorney Should Know About Ethics" at the City Bar Center for CLE's Trusts & Estates Ethics program.
May 29, 2008 Brian Murphy spoke about talent agreements at the ACI Advertising Law Conference in Las Vegas.
May 15, 2008 Candice Kersh spoke at the Gotham Media Breakfast's "Branded Entertainment 2.0" on May 15, 2008 at the Frankfurt Kurnit offices. The event is sponsored by Frankfurt Kurnit.
May 9, 2008 Edward Rosenthal and Linda Wank presented "Marilyn Monroe and the Post-Mortem Right of Publicity" at the Fall Meeting of the New York State Surrogate's Association at the City Bar Association.
April 30, 2008 Ronald Minkoff presented, "Understanding the Risks Associated with Advertisements and Solicitations through Various Media" at ACI's Law Firm General Counsel Summit in New York.
April 23, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Navigating Through the Network Clearance Process and Getting it Right the First Time” at the Regulatory Kid Watch Conference in Washington, D.C.
April 9, 2008 Brian Murphy gave a lecture entitled "Hear No Evil?: Music Copyrighted in the Real World" at New York Law School on April 9th, 2008.
April 8, 2008 Richard Hofstetter spoke at the Gotham Media Breakfast's "The Future of Digital Entertainment" on April 8, 2008 at the Friars Club. The event was sponsored by Frankfurt Kurnit.
March 18, 2008 “The Basics of the Law of Advertising and Marketing” Bridge the Gap Program, New York City Bar, New York, New York
March 14, 2008 Victoria Cook spoke on IFP's "Navigating Film Finance in the US Today" panel at The Canadian Consulate.  
March 7, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Developments in New Media Advertising” at the Current Issues in Complex IP Licensing Conference in Phoenix.
March 3, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Creating a Successful Blog Marketing Program: Safely and Effectively” at the Electronic Retailer Association's ERetailer Summit in Miami.
February 25, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Managing Legal Risks in Affiliate Marketing” at the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas.
February 12, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Money Power” at the High School of Economics and Finance in New York City.
February 1, 2008 Richard Hofstetter will present "Negotiating Off-Network Rights in a Multi-platform World" at the Real Screen Summit in Washington, DC.
January 31, 2008 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Marketing Communications and the Law” at the American Law Institute and American Bar Association event in San Diego.
December 17, 2007 Ronald Minkoff chaired PLI's "Staying Out of Trouble: What Every Attorney Must Know About Ethics 2007" conference in New York.
December 10, 2007 Candice Kersh and Brian Murphy spoke at the ACI Corporate Counsel Forum on Advertising Law at the Westin, Times Square. Ms. Kersh led a workshop on the agency-client relationship ; Mr. Murphy presented "Recent Developments in Protecting IP in Advertising and Marketing Practices."
November 15, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Who's in Control Now?” at the Promotion Marketing Association Annual Law Conference in Chicago.
November 14, 2007 Richard Maltz was the Program Chair for the New York City Bar's Practical Solutions to Routine Ethical Issues program.
November 11, 2007 Candice Kersh was interviewed on the Brian Lehrer show on November 11, 2007. She spoke on user-generated content and new development in advertising.
November 11, 2007 Rick Kurnit presented "Fair Trade in an All-Access World" at the Jordan Edmiston/Outsell Signature Event for media and entertainment CEOs and venture and private equity executives at The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina.
November 9, 2007 Candice Kersh moderated the Future of Television Advertising panel at the Future of Television conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City.
November 3, 2007 Gavin McElroy spoke on how to start a consulting business at the Take Two 50+ Entrepreneurship Event at Baruch College.
November 2, 2007 Brian Murphy spoke at "The Amateur Hour Conference" which took place at New York Law School.  This conference brought together leaders in business, law, and technology to address the challenges and opportunities of user-generated content to traditional media, entertainment law, and business.  Brian moderated and spoke on a panel about the use of user-generated content in advertising, marketing and public relations.
October 31, 2007 Edward Rosenthal and Linda Wank presented "Legally Blonde and Dead", a CLE seminar on publicity rights, for the William Morris Agency.
October 29, 2007 Judge Alex Kozinski and others joined Rick Kurnit on a free NYC Bar panel "Content Convergence:  The First Amendment in the Strange New World of Entertainment and Information." 
October 25, 2007 Brian Murphy guest lectured Professor Beth Noveck's "Intro to IP" class at NYLS.  His lecture was entitled "Proving Substantial Similarity in the Real World."
October 24, 2007 Brian Murphy presented "License Agreements -- When, How, and Whether to Obtain Rights," at the ACI Intellectual Property in Advertising and Marketing event at the Cornell Club in New York. The firm sponsored this event. 
October 24, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Hot Topics in Advertising - 2007” at the New York City Bar.
October 24, 2007 Gavin McElroy spoke at a New York Software and Information Industry Association event in New York. The topic was "Software as a Service."
October 23, 2007 Jerry Spiegel led the Prescription for Venture Success panel at the Life Sciences and Healthcare Venture Summit at Digital Sandbox.
October 22, 2007 Victoria Cook spoke on the "The Motion Picture Money Cycle" panel at the Film/TV Production & Finance Summit at the Westin in Times Square.
October 17, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Ensuring FTC Compliance When Using Product Demonstration Techniques” at the Claim Substantiation Conference in New York City.
October 15, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Counseling Clients on Sound Advertising Practices in Order to Avert Regulatory Scrutiny” at the Defending Consumer Product Fraud Class Actions Conference in New York City.
October 12, 2007 Linda Wank chaired the NYSBA Trusts and Estates Law Section Fall Meeting in San Diego.
October 10-14, 2007 Linda Wank chaired the NYSBA Trusts and Estates Law Section Fall Meeting in San Diego. Ron Minkoff spoke on "What Every Trusts and Estates Attorney Should Know About Ethics."
October 4, 2007 Ned Rosenthal spoke on Right of Publicity at the New York City Bar's Trademark and Copyright Licensing event. This was a 3-hour CLE event from 6PM to 9PM.
October 3, 2007 Lisa Davis  gave a CLE presentation at the Corporate Counsel Women of Color conference.
September 29, 2007 Brian Murphy led a workshop entitled "Copyright Protection and Emerging Media" at the 2007 Media and Marketing Summit presented by the South Asians in Media and Marketing Association (SAMMA) at NYU Stern, New York.  Rick Kurnit  also presented at this event. Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored the SAMMA summit.
September 26, 2007 Candice Kersh presented at the AAAA's 2007 Finance and Talent Conferences at the City University of New York.
September 25, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “What's New in Comparative Advertising” at the National Advertising Review Council's Claim Support and Self Regulation Conference in New York City.
September 20, 2007 Rick Kurnit spoke on the Gotham Media Ventures breakfast panel "Buzz 2.0: The Viral Epidemic." Frankfurt Kurnit  sponsors this panel.
September 19, 2007 Ronald Minkoff presented on transactional conflicts of interest at Lorman's Legal Ethics in New York conference.
September 18-19, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Benchmarking Clients' Advertising Practices Against the Best Practices of Self-Regulated Industries” at the American Conference Institute's Advertisers & Marketers Regulatory Summit in San Francisco.
September 18, 2007 Brian Murphy spoke on copyright issues arising from the use of music in advertising at the 17th Annual All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property conference. The conference took place in both Cleveland and Cincinnati.
August 24, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Developments in New Media Advertising” at the Current Issues in Complex IP Licensing Conference in Seattle.
August 11, 2007 Brian Murphy spoke before the Science & Technology Law Section at the ABA Annual Convention in San Francisco. His presentation was entitled “Lies, Lies, Lies (Yeah), They’re Gonna Get You: False Advertising and Emerging Media.”
July 18-19, 2007 Rick Kurnit co-chaired the ACI E-Marketing and Privacy Law conference in New York. He also presented "Avoiding Legal Risks in Stealth, Peer, and Viral Marketing."
June 28, 2007 Rick Kurnit and Candice Kersh spoke at the AAAA's Ownership of Agency Ideas and Work Seminar.
June 26, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Surviving the Comparative Advertising Battlefield” at the 19th National Advertising Law Conference in Las Vegas.
June 22, 2007 Lisa Davis spoke on a film finance panel at the Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival.
June 19, 2007 Ronald Minkoff spoke on transactional conflicts of interest at the Association of Corporate Counsel's Ethics Marathon in New York. The topic was Ethical Issues Facing GC's in Multi-Jurisdictional Corporations.
June 19, 2007 Jerry Spiegel moderated the "Planting the Seed: Raising Early-Stage Funding" panel at the 2007 New York Venture Summit. Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored this summit.
June 9, 2007 Tom Selz spoke on a film finance panel to members of the Producers Guild of America West in Los Angeles.
June 6, 2007 Linda Wank chaired the UJA Federation's 16th Annual Trusts and Estates Group Event honoring the late Arthur Sederbaum.
June 5-6, 2007 Brian Murphy presented “Advertising After Grokster" at the ACI's 19th National Advertising Law Conference at The Signature at MGM Grand, Las Vegas. Rick Kurnit presented "Facing the Dangers of Intellectual Property in a Digital Age." Jeff Greenbaum presented “Surviving the Comparative Advertising Battlefield." Candice Kersh participated in the “Managing the Complex Agency/Client Relationship—Expect More, Get More, and Be Ready for ANYTHING!” workshop.
June 4, 2007 Ronald Minkoff and Richard Maltz spoke on the new advertising rules for law firms. Marc Handelman will present "Winning Time and Work Management Strategies for Marketing Coordinators", at ACI's Law Firm Business Development Summit in New York.
June 2, 2007 Ronald Minkoff presented "Restrictive Covenants for Law Partners" at the Center for Professional Responsibility Conference.
May 23, 2007 Thomas Selz spoke at the "Industry in Focus: Tax Incentives for Filmmaking" panel at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Frankfurt Kurnit sponsors the panel.
May 22, 2007 Jerry Spiegel spoke at the Gotham Media Ventures breakfast panel,"Content: Who Owns What Online." Frankfurt Kurnit sponsored this panel.
May 21, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Dealing with Product Recalls and Government-Initiated Consumer Protection Actions” at the Defending Products in Litigation Conference in San Francisco.
May 5, 2007 Rick Kurnit was the featured speaker at the American Advertising Federation Southeast Region (aka 4th district) annual meeting and ADDY Awards in Miami.
May 4, 2007 Ronald Minkoff chaired the ethics panel "Attorney Advertising in the Digital Age" at the 20th annual Media and the Law seminar in Kansas City, KS.
May 1, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Advertiser’s Regulatory Summit” at the American Conference Institute in Washington, D.C.
April 27, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Rebate Debate” at the Federal Trade Commission in San Francisco.
April 24, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “New Marketing Channels” at the Electronic Retailing Association’s Legal Conference in Los Angeles.
April 23, 2007 Rick Kurnit presented "Intellectual Property, Product Substantiation, and Emarketing" to the Advantage User Group conference in Las Vegas.
March 28, 2007

Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Avoiding Commercial Misappropriation Claims When Integrating Brands and Products” at the Maximizing Branded Entertainment Deals Conference in New York City.
March 23, 2007 Jerry Spiegel spoke on IP and New Media at a Ford Foundation-sponsored meeting on the Future of Media in the Frankfurt Kurnit office.
March 21, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Influencing and Negotiating” at the Promotion Marketing Association Annual Marketing Conference in Chicago.
March 21, 2007 Candice Kersh and Rick Kurnit presented "How to Avoid the Legal Traps in Your Company's Marketing Efforts" to members of the Association of Corporate Counsel in the Frankfurt Kurnit office.
March 19-20, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Withstanding FTC and State Scrutiny of Emerging e-Marketing Practices” at the E-Marketing and Privacy Law Conference in Las Vegas.
March 19, 2007 Ronald Minkoff presented a CLE program on Transactional Conflicts at Fordham Law School.
March 15, 2007 The Network Journal magazine hosted a luncheon honoring Lisa Davis as one of the 25 Influential Black Women in Business.
March 15, 2007 Brian Murphy spoke on Intellectual Property for Technology Entrepreneurs at a joint meeting of the Princeton Media Communications Association and the Princeton Association for Computing Machinery.
March 15, 2007 Tom Selz spoke at the Appraisers Association of America's "Appraising Celebrity and Historical Objects" conference in New York. Mr. Selz's panel focused on "Defining the Celebrity Object and the Market."
March 8-10, 2007 Rick Kurnit presented "Advertising and Marketing Law" at the 22nd Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Product Distribution and Marketing conference, March 8-10, Miami, Fla.
March 8-10, 2007 Rick Kurnit presented "Intellectual Property and Marketing Communications" at the 22nd Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Product Distribution and Marketing conference, March 8-10, Miami, Fla.
March 7, 2007 Candice Kersh and Salil Gandhi gave a branded entertainment presentation for the New York City Bar's Entertainment Law Committee.
March 7-9, 2007 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the Legal Malpractice and Risk Management conference at the Westin in Chicago.
March 3, 2007 Brian Murphy spoke before the American Bar Association Law Student Division about careers in intellectual property law.
February 22, 2007 Tom Selz, Victoria Cook, and Bernard Topper spoke at the Producers Guild East panel Tax Benefits for Filmmaking hosted by Frankfurt Kurnit.
February 9, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented "IP Boot Camp for Advertising Executives and Attorneys" at the Executive Legal Summit on Alcohol Beverage Marketing Distribution Law Conference in Miami.
February 8, 2007 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Unsupported Claims and Other Regulatory Trip-Ups” at the Executive Legal Summit on Alcohol Beverage Marketing Distribution Law Conference in Miami.
February 7, 2007 Salil Gandhi spoke on branded entertainment at the New York City Bar's Integrated Marketing program. Jeff Greenbaum chaired the program.
January 25-26, 2007

Rick Kurnit spoke again at the Canadian Institute's Annual Advertising and Marketing Law Conference in Toronto on Claim Substantiation and Puffery under U.S. law.

January 22, 2007 Lisa Davis spoke on a panel titled "The Art of the Deal" at the Sundance Film Festival.
January 17, 2007 Rick Kurnit presented "Where Puffery Begins and Ends" at the Association of National Advertisers' Law & Business Affairs conference in New York. The firm sponsored this event.
December 18, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Money Power” at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.
December 12, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Align your Promotion with your Advertising” at the Promotion Marketing Association Annual Law Conference in Chicago.
December 5-6, 2006 Brian Murphy presented "Advertising Past, Present & Future --How Prepared Are We for the Next Wave?" at ACI's Advertising Law Conference in New York.
December 4, 2006 Rick Kurnit presented "Puffery or Claim? Navigating a Fine Line" at ACI's National Advertising Law conference in New York City.
November 27-28, 2006 Ned Rosenthal spoke on Rights of Publicity and Entertainment Licensing at PLI's Understanding the IP License event in New York City.
November 17, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Future of Television Advertising” at the Digital Media Wire Future of Television Conference at New York University.
November 13, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke on advertising law and regulation at Law Seminars International's Internet Marketing & Selling Conference in San Francisco.
October 24, 2006 Ned Rosenthal chaired an Association of Corporate Counsel CLE breakfast titled "e-Marketing Communications Make You a Publisher Too" at the Friars Club.
October 24, 2006 Jerrold Spiegel spoke on a panel, "Negotiating Investment Deals in the New Frontier of Mobile and Video Games" at the American Conference Institute's (ACI) National Investment Community's Forum on Entertainment Finance in New York City.
October 17, 2006 Candice Kersh led a 4A's thought leadership workshop titled "Agency Value Creation, Compensation, and Ownership and Use of Agency Ideas and Work Product."
October 16-17, 2006 Ronald Minkoff spoke on "Conflicts in Lateral Recruiting and Firm Mergers" at the American Conference Institute's (ACI) Law Firm Risk Management Conference in New York City.
October 13, 2006 Rick Kurnit and Candice Kersh presented "How to Avoid the Legal Traps in Your Company's Marketing" for the Association of Corporate Counsel in a CLE breakfast at the Friars Club.
October 12, 2006 Lisa Davis spoke at the Corporate Counsel Women of Color Second Annual Career Strategies Conference in NYC.
October 9, 2006 Brian Murphy spoke at a luncheon hosted by the IP Law Society at Cardozo Law School. Brian discussed life as an entertainment, media and advertising lawyer.
October 4, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Analyzing FTC Enforcement Trends & Triggers” at the American Conference Institute's Retail Counsel's Summit on E-Sales and Marketing Law in New York City.
October 3, 2006 Candice Kersh and Rick Kurnit spoke at the 4A’s “Ownership of Agency Ideas & Work” Seminar in Chicago
September 28, 2006 Ronald Minkoff was on an ethics panel "Ripped from Real Life: Ethics Hypotheticals" at the Media Law Resource Center’s conference in Virginia.
September 27, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Hot Topics in Advertising - 2006” at the New York City Bar.
September 27, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke on "Advertising and Promotion for Publishers and Broadcasters" at Media Law Resource Center's conference in Virginia.
September 20, 2006 Lisa Davis participated on a Black Ivy Alumni League legal panel discussion at Skadden Arps. The panel discussed Black lawyers entering the legal field and advancing in the profession.
September 20, 2006

Candice Kersh and Rick Kurnit spoke at the 4A’s “Ownership of Agency Ideas & Work” Seminar in Boston.
September 19, 2006 Jerry Spiegel participated in the Business Development Institute's Web Video Leadership Forum at NYU.
September 13, 2006 Jerry Spiegel was on the Licensing Entertainment Content for the New Digital Technologies panel at the Licensing Executives Society's Annual Meeting in New York.
September 7, 2006 Ronald Minkoff presented an ethics CLE seminar at the attorney luncheon.
September 6-8, 2006 Cameron Myler spoke at a workshop on the role of athletes and partners for development and peace. The workshop was part of the 59th Annual DPI/NGO Conference at the United Nations.
September 6, 2006 Lisa Davis co-hosted The Creative Coalition's Celebration of African Americans in the Arts during Congressional Black Caucas Week in Washington, DC.
September 1, 2006

Madhu Goel moderated two panels at the Network of Indian Professionals Annual Conference in Chicago.

August 17, 2006 Gavin McElroy addressed the legal issues surrounding "service provider licensing" agreements at a meeting of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners in New York.
August 1-3, 2006 Rick Kurnit lectured on Intellectual Property Rights and Fair Use at Beijing University as part of a special course for Chinese media executives and journalists.
July 31, 2006 Ronald Minkoff spoke on "Hello, I Must Be Going: Recusal and Disqualification Issues" at the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.
July 27-31, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke at "Marketing the 2008 Olympics" in Beijing.
June 21, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum,  Rick Kurnit and Brian G. Murphy presented “Imperative Regulatory & IP Issues You Cannot Avoid When Structuring Brand Integration Deals” at the American Conference Institute's Advertising Law Conference in Chicago.
June 20, 2006 Jerrold Spiegel moderated a panel "Navigating the Venture Path: Finding the Quickest Route to Investment" at the 2006 New York Venture Summit.
June 16-18, 2006 Madhu Goel spoke at the 3rd annual national convention of the North American South Asian Bar Association (NASABA) in Atlanta.
June 15, 2006 Brian Murphy spoke on a panel "Use of Real Products, Trademarks, Places, People, Song Lyrics, and Items of Pop Culture in Fiction" before the Committee on Copyright and Trademark of the New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Section.
June 15, 2006 Jerrold Spiegel spoke on a panel "Investment Opportunities in Web Video" at the Business Development Institute's conference, "Web Video Goes Mainstream-Is Your Brand Ready?" in New York City.
June 12, 2006 Gavin McElroy moderated "A Primer on Service Provider Licensing: Can it Work for You?" on June 12th, and "The Intersection of Business and Law in Software Licensing" on June 13th at the Advanced Software Law and Practice Forum in San Francisco. FKKS was a workshop sponsor at this event.
June 7, 2006 Linda Wank chaired the UJA Federation's 15th Annual Trusts & Estates Group dinner honoring Martin Rosen of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
June 3, 2006 Lisa Davis spoke in Miami on “Branded Entertainment and Intellectual Property: A Legal Perspective on the New Content Marketing Environment” at the 2006 Caribbean & Central America Media Summit.
June 1, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke at the Advertising Law Conference sponsored by American Conference Institute in Chicago.
May 10, 2006 Ronald Minkoff spoke at a "Hot Topics in Ethics" program at the New York County Lawyers Association.
May 6, 2006 Melissa Georges and Jean Voutsinas attended the International Trademark Association's (INTA) Annual Meeting in Toronto.
May 5, 2006 Edward Hernstadt spoke on a panel at the NELA/NY (National Employment Lawyers Association) Downstate Spring Conference at the Yale Club. Ed spoke about entertainment employment deals.
May 3, 2006 Ed Hernstadt and Ronald Minkoff were guest lecturers at an NYU Law and Journalism class for practicing journalists.
April 28, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Money Power” at Liberty High School in New York City.
April 27, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Green Lights and Red Flags: FTC/BBB Rules of the Road for Advertisers” at the Federal Trade Commission in New York City.
April 23, 2006
Rick Kurnit will present "Intellectual Property, Product Substantiation, and Emarketing" to the Advantage User Group conference in Las Vegas.
April 21, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke on advertising legal issues in producing cutting edge Creative at the VCU School of Advertising in Richmond, Virginia.
April 11, 2006 Brian Murphy spoke on a panel regarding the publishing industry’s lawsuit challenging Google Book Search at NYLS Institute for Information Law and Policy in NYC.
March 30, 2006 S. Jean Ward spoke at PLI's “Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry” seminar.
March 20, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke at Insight Advertising Law conference in Chicago.
March 16, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke on Advertising and Unfair Competition Issues at the 21st Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Course of Study for In-House and Outside Counsel, “Product Distribution and Marketing,” in San Francisco.
March 15, 2006 Lisa Davis spoke about intellectual property issues at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) 5th Annual CLE Expo Conference in Chicago.
February 27, 2006 Brian Murphy and Rick Kurnit spoke at the American Conference Institute’s IP in Advertising conference.
February 27, 2006 Rick Kurnit taught a class on Commercial Speech and the Right of Publicity at Columbia Law School.
February 27, 2006 Brian Murphy and Rick Kurnit spoke at the American Conference Institute’s IP in Advertising conference.
February 15, 2006 Candice Kersh spoke on a panel at the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) Sponsorship & Event Marketing Committee Meeting.
February 11, 2006

Candice Kersh presented on the business, legal and economic aspects of New Business NDA & Assignment/ Ownership of Rights Agreements to Directors of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
February 9, 2006 Ronald Minkoff ran the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers Conference at the ABA Convention in Chicago.
February 2, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke on the right of publicity at the International Trademark Association’s “Emerging Issues in Trademark Law Forum” in Savannah, Georgia.
January 31, 2006 Jerry Spiegel spoke on “The Explosion of Mobile Commerce: Where are the Opportunities?” at the Digital Commerce Summit 2006 sponsored by Digital Media Wire.
January 30, 2006 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “New Developments in Advertising Law/Traditional Advertisers Pushing Boundaries” at the Law Seminars International Advertising Law Conference in New York City.
January 30, 2006 Rick Kurnit and Brian Murphy spoke at the American Conference Institute’s “Brand Integration Deals” conference in LA. Mr. Kurnit was co-chair of the conference and spoke on managing the risks of regulatory uncertainty when applying traditional advertising rules to branded content. Mr. Murphy spoke on a panel about working with talent.
January 26, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke at a panel about “Understanding the Use of Intellectual Property in the Advertising Industry” at The Canadian Institute’s 12th Annual Advertising and Marketing Law conference.
January 25, 2006 Rick Kurnit spoke on developments in rights of privacy and publicity at the Association of National Advertisers 2006 Annual Advertising Law & Business Affairs Conference.
January 18, 2006 Jerry Spiegel spoke on a panel about “Managing Your IP Portfolio to Comply with New Sarbanes-Oxley and Common Law Requirements” at the Friars Club. Our firm is co-presented this event with Association of Corporate Counsel America (ACCA) and our friends at Kalow & Springut.
December 21, 2005 Ronald Minkoff was Program Chair of the Legal Malpractice Panel at the PLI's "Staying Out of Trouble: What Attorneys Need to Know About Ethics".
December 19, 2005 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) on "Attorney-Client Privilege."
December 13, 2005 Edward Rosenthal spoke on a panel about “Creating a Corporate Blogging Policy - Key to Managing Risk” at the Syndicate conference in San Francisco.
December 12, 2005 Candice Kersh and Rick Kurnit spoke at the American Conference Institute's Advertising Law conference. Mr. Kurnit spoke on "Using IP in Your Advertising: Offensive Strategies and Defensive Plays" and Ms. Kersh spoke on "Practical Strategies for Negotiating and Drafting Advertising Agency Contracts."
December 12, 2005 Thayer Thompson spoke on a panel that Jerry Spiegel moderated at the Angel Zone 2005 conference presented by Young StartUp. The panel was titled, “Enlisting Investors and the Role of Intermediaries: Pros and Cons.”
December 1, 2005 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Negotiating Advertising Agency/Client Agreements” at the Promotion Marketing Association's Annual Law Conference in Chicago.
November 29, 2005 Candice Kersh spoke about "Branded Entertainment for General Counsel" at the American Lawyer Media's IP Law & Business Winter Briefing in Washington, D.C.
November 18, 2005 Thomas Selz moderated a panel on Technology Beyond TiVo at the “Future of Television: Beyond the Box” conference presented by NYU's Stern School of Business and Digital Media Wire. Frankfurt Kurnit was a sponsor of this 1-day executive forum.
November 16, 2005 Brian Murphy spoke on a panel presented by the Copyright Society at the Princeton Club on the topic “Copyright, Lanham Act, Right of Publicity, and Contract Claims Arising from Use of Music in Jingles and Commercials.”
November 16, 2005 Edward Rosenthal spoke on "Rights of Publicity and Entertainment Licensing" at the Practicing Law Institute.
November 14, 2005 Cameron Myler made a presentation to the New York City Bar's Sports Law Committee regarding issues raised by recent arbitration decisions in Olympic sport anti-doping cases.
November 10, 2005 Ronald Minkoff is speaking at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's "Ethics for In-house Counsel" Program. Ron is also the Program Chair.
November 10, 2005 Brian Murphy and Salil Gandhi spoke on "Media, Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law" - a panel discussion for students at Hunter who are considering law school.
November 4, 2005 Cameron Myler spoke at New England Law School's sports law symposium "From Grand Slams to Grand Juries: Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Sport." The topic that her panel addressed was "Adjudication of Doping Cases in Professional and Olympic Sports: Is There Any Legal Relief Available?"
November 2, 2005 Gavin McElroy and Candice Kersh spoke to advertising agencies at the New Business Institute produced by the Sanders Group in Chicago.
October 31, 2005 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the "New Business Institute" for the Sanders Group in Los Angeles.
October 31, 2005 Rick Kurnit spoke at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
October 31, 2005 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the "New Business Institute" for the Sanders Group in Los Angeles.
October 27, 2005 Helen Wan moderated a panel discussing strategies for confronting the challenges faced by Asian women attorneys, presented by the Committee on Women in the Profession, the South Asian Bar Association of New York, and the Asian American Bar Association of New York. Madhu Goel helped put this event together as a member of the Committee on Women of the Profession and an officer in SABANY.
October 27, 2005 Candice Kersh and Rick Kurnit spoke on an Intellectual Property panel at the seminar on value-based compensation hosted by the American Association of Advertising Agencies in New York City.
October 18, 2005 Cameron Myler spoke at a conference of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and National Athletic Trainers Association called "Life Cycle of the Athlete" about her experiences as an Olympic athlete.
October 17, 2005 Edward Rosenthal spoke about “Licensing Copyrights, Trademarks and Rights of Publicity: The Do’s and Don’ts” at the New York City Bar.
October 11, 2005 Brian Murphy spoke at the New York Law School on LGBT Issues in the Workplace.
October 8, 2005 Stuart Silfen spoke on a panel, “The Buying, Selling and Evaluation of Copyrights,” at the ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries at The Marriott Marquis Hotel.
October 7, 2005 Cameron Myler spoke on the panel, "Drug Testing in the Future," during the ABA's Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries Annual Meeting.
September 30, 2005 Thomas D. Selz moderated the "Television Production in New York City" panel at the inaugural New York Television Festival, discussing the unique advantages and benefits of producing television in New York City and how to navigate the obstacles to production here.
September 30, 2005 Brian Murphy moderated a firm-sponsored panel discussion during Advertising Week 2005 titled, "So You've Decided to Hire a Celebrity Spokesperson." More details.
September 29, 2005 Lisa Davis spoke at a CLE presentation, "Branded Entertainment for Corporate Counsel," at the First Annual Career Strategies Conference organized by Corporate Counsel Women of Color.
September 29, 2005 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “TV Advertising and Beyond” at the Shoot Forum Conference in New York City.
September 26, 2005 Rick Kurnit spoke on the "Puffery and False Denigration" panel at the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus's annual conference, "What's New in Comparative Advertising, Claim Support, and Self-Regulation."
September 22, 2005 Victoria Cook spoke on a panel at the IFP (Independent Feature Project) called "Basic Legal Issues For Independent Producers."
September 21, 2005 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Hot Topics in Advertising Law - 2005” at the New York City Bar.
September 20, 2005 Victoria Cook spoke at the understanding legalese segment of a five-week course called “How to Make a Great Preschool Series” sponsored by the Little Airplane Academy.
September 15, 2005 Gavin McElroy spoke on a new venture panel, "The Art of Telling Your Story," at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn.
August 5, 2005 Ronald Minkoff spoke on New Developments on Sarbanes-Oxley at the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers meeting at the American Bar Association Convention in Chicago.
July 28, 2005 Edward Hernstadt spoke at Jupiter Media’s Digital Rights Management Strategies Conference on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.
June 28, 2005 Edward Hernstadt spoke on a panel titled, “Business & Regulatory Issues for DRM, Who's Watching? Whose Rights?” at the Entertainment Technology Alliance in Cooperation with The C3 Expo.
June 24, 2005 Lisa Davis moderated a Finance Panel at the Urbanworld Film Festival.
June 21, 2005 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “What’s New, What’s Important & What Will Keep You Out of Trouble” at the Long Island Advertising Club.
June 20, 2005 Thomas D. Selz was a Discussion Leader on Entertainment Licensing at the 2005 Licensing Show in New York.
June 14, 2005 Edward Rosenthal spoke at the Harvard Club at an American Lawyer Media event called Design Piracy: Protecting Your Products. Ned spoke on a panel titled “Pro-Actively Protecting Your Designs and Brands.”
June 6-7, 2005 Candice Kersh, Rick Kurnit and Brian Murphy spoke at the 15th National Advanced Corporate Counsel Forum on Advertising Law in Chicago. Candice spoke on “Agency, Client and Counsel: Critical Issues in Drafting the Contracts and Managing the Relationship”; Brian spoke on “Playing the Hollywood Game: Promotional Tie-ins and Branded Entertainment”; and Rick spoke on “Using Your IP in Your Advertising: Offensive Strategies and Defensive Plays.”
June 6-7, 2005 Jerry Spiegel lead a panel called "Preparing to Raise Capital: Making Your Company Investor-Ready" at the New York Venture Capital Summit.
June 2-5, 2005 Edward Rosenthal spoke at the Book Expo 2005 at Javits on legal issues arising from RSS, licensing books into online newsletters, digital audio books, the “jib jabbing” of books, and Google Print and Amazon “Look Inside”.
May 30-31, 2005 Rick Kurnit presented "Your Website and E-Commerce Content and Liabilities" at the Canadian Institute's Competition Law Compliance Conference.
May 24, 2005 Bernard Topper spoke on a panel titled, "Film Tax Breaks and Incentives: Federal, State, and That Country Up North" at the Entertainment and Sports Conference hosted by the Foundation for Accounting Education.
May 19, 2005 Candice Kersh spoke at the Spring Purple Forum Meeting sponsored by the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
May 19, 2005 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Advertising Law” at the New York Guard event in New York City.
May 17, 2005 Edward Rosenthal spoke on copyright, licensing, and other legal issues surrounding RSS (“really simple syndication”) of content at the RSS Publishing Conference at the Grand Marquis in NYC.
May 17, 2005 Madhu Goel presented for the Federal Bar Council Inns of Court a mock Senate hearing on whether the FCC should regulate cable and satellite media. The presentation was entitled: "Stern Warning: Regulating Indecency in the Media."
May 17, 2005 Victoria Cook and Richard Heller spoke on the subject "New Tax Incentives for Filmmakers in the United States" at a breakfast meeting of the Producer's Network at the Cannes Film Festival.
May 5, 2005 Victoria Cook spoke on “Documentaries and the Law” at Fordham University School of Law.
April 30, 2005 Michael Frankfurt was a co-host representing The Creative Coalition at the 2005 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
April 28, 2005 Richard Heller was on the “Copyrighting Creativity: No Eyes Allowed on the Prize” panel at The Tribeca Film Festival at The Knitting Factory.
April 27, 2005 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum spoke at the "Third Annual New Director’s Showcase” at Shoot in New York City.
April 15, 2005 Rick Kurnit spoke on “Convergence of Branding and Content and the Law” at the Annual Entertainment Law Conference presented by Harvard Law School Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law and The Creative Coalition.
April 8, 2005 Edward Rosenthal spoke on the "Changing Media and the Fate of Press Freedom" panel at the 2005 Media and the Law conference sponsored by The University of Kansas Continuing Education.
April 8, 2005 Gavin McElroy spoke on "Protecting Intellectual Property Rights" at the Brooklyn Enterprise on Science and Technology (BEST) Incubator at Polytechnic University.
April 7, 2005 Tom Selz, Bernie Topper, and Victoria Cook spoke to members of the Producers Guild of America about Federal and New York State film production tax credit programs.
March 31, 2005 Brian Murphy spoke at a Symposium called "New Developments in Copyright and Trademark Law" at New York Law School.
March 31, 2005 S. Jean Ward spoke at the Practicing Law Institute "2005 Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry" seminar held at PLI's offices in New York City.
March 30, 2005 Helen Wan presented along with Gail Gross at the Small Press Center on "Getting the Most Out of Your Book Deal: A Workshop for Authors and Agents" organized by The Women's National Book Association.
March 29, 2005 Cameron Myler spoke at “The Keys to Success” a special event for 5th & 6th grade students from schools enrolled in the New York Knicks Read-to-Achieve program. The roundtable discussion featured prominent women who shared their insights and gave real-life examples of what it takes to be a successful woman in today’s world.
March 23, 2005 Rick Kurnit spoke on “Preemption of Right of Publicity Claims” at the New York Copyright Society luncheon program.
March 21, 2005 Cameron Myler spoke at the City Bar Sports Law Committee about her representation of Chryste Gaines and the impact of BALCO on anti-doping efforts in the Olympic Movement.
March 18, 2005 Rick Kurnit spoke on advertising and marketing communications liability at the ALI/ABA course on Product Distribution and Marketing in New Orleans. He will also address Intellectual Property Protection.
March 17, 2005 Lisa Davis spoke at the "Excelling at Motherhood and the Law" panel sponsored by Practicing Attorneys and Law Students, Association of Black Women Attorneys and In-House Women of Color.
March 15, 2005 Thomas Selz spoke on film and television production tax credits for New York Women in Film and Television at their Made in New York event at The Laugh Factory. Katherine Oliver and Pat Swinney Kaufman were also on the panel.
March 11, 2005 Cameron Myler spoke on a panel entitled "Doping in Sports" at the 9th Annual Symposium on Current Legal Issues in Sports, which is sponsored by the NYSBA Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section and the Fordham University School of Law. (3/11)
February 24, 2005 Ronald Minkoff spoke on “Handling Inadvertently Produced or Obtained Privileged Documents” at the Legal Malpractice and Risk Management Conference in Chicago.
February 18, 2005 Cameron Myler spoke on the "Diversity in Athletics: How Sports Impact Society" panel  at the annual Winter Sports Law Symposium in Chicago presented by the DePaul Univeristy College of Law Journal of Sports Law and Contemporary Problems.
February 16, 2005 Helen Wan moderated a panel discussion on the topic "Will Nicole Kidman Play Me in the Movie?" organized by The Women's National Book Association at the Small Press Center. Authors, agents and studio execs illuminate the page-to-screen process.
February 15, 2005 Richard Heller participated in a panel discussion regarding business and legal aspects of motion picture production sponsored by New York Women In Film & Television.
February 10-12, 2005 Ronald Minkoff managed a three-day Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) Ethics Conference in Salt Lake City. He was the chair of the panel on "Update on the ABA Commission on the Model Code of Judicial Conduct."
February 10, 2005 Jerry Spiegel moderated a panel on "Broadband, Content & Commerce" at the McGraw-Hill Media Summit in New York City.
January 26-27, 2005 Rick Kurnit spoke at the Association of National Advertisers' Annual Legal Conference on developments in the Right of Publicity.
January 25-26, 2005 Rick Kurnit spoke on Comparative Advertising Law at the Canadian Institute's Advertising and Marketing Law Conference in Toronto.
January 24, 2005 Tom Selz moderated the panel titled, "Branding of Entertainment, the Media, and the First Amendment: Social Questions and Legal Challenges" at the NYSBA Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section Annual Meeting at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
January 18, 2005 Rick Kurnit spoke on “Frankenstein Meets Godzilla (The Right of Publicity v. Copyright)” at the Philadelphia Chapter of the Copyright Society.
January 14, 2005 Lisa Davis spoke on a panel at the ABA Forum on Communications Law discussing, "Hot Topics In Ethics."
December 15, 2004 Brian Murphy spoke at the Advanced Advertising Law Conference on Sponsorship, Talent and Sports Media Contracts presented by the American Conference Institute in New York.
December 13, 2004 Rick Kurnit spoke at the Advanced Advertising Law Conference on Intellectual Property in Marketing Communications presented by the American Conference Institute in New York..
December 8, 2004 Ronald Minkoff spoke at the Practicing Law Institute on "The Ethics of In-House Investigations."
December 7, 2004 Jerry Spiegel moderated a panel discussion titled, “Hunting for Seed Stage Funding” at the Angel Zone ’04 Investor Forum at Madison Square Garden.
December 3, 2004 Cameron Myler spoke as an Olympian at the 2004 Cultural Diversity Event entitled, "Celebrating the Olympic Tradition" hosted by the New York Power Authority and the New York State Olympic Games Commission.
December 3, 2004 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Endorsements and Testimonials” at the Promotion Marketing Association's Annual Law Conference in Chicago.
December 2, 2004 Rick Kurnit presented the Intellectual Property Law segment at the Promotion Marketing Association's Annual Law Conference in Chicago.
November 19, 2004 Richard Hofstetter moderated a panel discussion titled, “The Future of Advertising: The End of Television As We Know It (Or the Beginning of Something New)” at the Future of Television Conference presented by digitalmediawire and NYU Stern.
November 17, 2004 Tom Selz taught a class at NYU School of Journalism about legal issues for practicing journalists.
November 16, 2004 Jerry Spiegel spoke at the Executive Business Network Associates’ breakfast.
November 5, 2004 Candice Kersh and Gavin McElroy spoke at the New Business Summit in New York sponsored by Sanders Consulting Group.
October 29-30, 2004

Cameron Myler spoke on “Blood Doping and Steroids - Professional Ethics in Representing Amateur and Professional Athletes” at the NYSBA Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section Fall Meeting at Doral Arrowwood Hotel in Rye Brook, NY.

October 29, 2004 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “The Legal Side of New Business” at the Sanders Group's New Business Summit 2004 in Los Angeles.
October 27, 2004 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Hot Topics in Advertising Law - 2004” at the New York City Bar.
October 18, 2004 Edward Rosenthal spoke on the topic of "Licensing the Right of Publicity" at the Annual PLI Licensing program.
October 15, 2004 Gavin McElroy spoke at the New Business Summit in Chicago sponsored by Sanders Consulting Group.
October 13-17, 2004 Linda Wank chaired the Fall Meeting of the NY State Bar Association's Trusts and Estates Law Section in Savannah, Georgia.
October 12, 2004 Ronald Minkoff chaired an Ethics Program for In-house Counsel at the Bar Association and ill be speaking on the No-Contact Rule.
October 7, 2004 Ronald Minkoff spoke at a CLE program at Merrill Lynch.
October 5, 2004 Candice Kersh spoke at the New Business Summit in Toronto sponsored by Sanders Consulting Group.
October 5, 2004 Gavin McElroy spoke at the Polytechnic University In Brooklyn on "What You Need To Know Before Starting a Business."
September 29, 2004 Tom Selz, Jerry Spiegel, and branding strategist Kathy C. Yohalem presented “Marketing and Branding in 2005” at the Friars Club. The executive breakfast was co-presented by our firm and Yohalem & Associates.
September 27, 2004 Rick Kurnit spoke on "Using IP in Direct Marketing: Offensive Strategies and Defensive Plays" at the Direct & Interactive Marketing Law Conference hosted by American Conference Institute in Chicago.
September 22, 2004 Victoria Cook was a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she spoke about Documentary Filmmaking and the Law.
September 22, 2004 Lisa Davis and Ronald Minkoff presented "Ethics for Media Lawyers" to the Copyright Society in New York City.
September 21, 2004 The Firm presented Content and Commerce: Hollywood Meets Madison Avenue during Advertising Week in New York. Panelists included Jon Kamen, Chairman of @radical.media; Bruce Redditt, EVP of Omnicom Group; Bob Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of R/GA; and Richard Kirshenbaum, Co-Chairman of kirshenbaum bond + partners. Rick Kurnit moderated.
July 7-9, 2004 Jerry Spiegel spoke at an "Ask the Expert" session at the Flashforward2004 conference and Flash Film Festival on the topic of Intellectual Property.
June 22-23, 2004 Edward Hernstadt spoke at the American Conference Institute's Digital Entertainment Distribution conference in Los Angeles.
June 15, 2004 Ronald Minkoff spoke on "Ethics for Litigators" at the NY County Lawyers Association.
June 7, 2004 Edward Rosenthal spoke on Copyright Issues at the 2004 Licensing Show.
May 18, 2004 Rick Kurnit spoke at the Advantage Software User Group Meeting on Legal Clearance of advertising and intellectual property and advertising liability in Las Vegas.
May 17, 2004 Rick Kurnit and Brian Murphy spoke at the Advanced Forum on Advertising Law on Intellectual Property In Advertising in Chicago.
April 29, 2004 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “FTC Enforcement” at the New York County Lawyers Association's Hot Topics in Internet Law Program in New York City.
April 16, 2004 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Strategies for Defending Against Actions by State Attorneys General & Local Regulators” at the Aggressive Advertising & The Law Conference in New York City.
April 5, 2004 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented "Focus on Agency Compensation” at the Agency Leadership Summit 2004 in Los Angeles.
March 4, 2004 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented the “Best Practices for Driving Production Company Profitability” at the Show Biz Expo in New York City.
December 9, 2003 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Back to Basics: Contracts” at the Meeting Professionals International event in New York City.
December 1, 2003 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “FTC Enforcement” at the Promotion Marketing Association Annual Law Conference in Chicago.
November 19, 2003 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Nuts and Bolts of Advertising Law” at the New York County Lawyers Association event in New York City.
October 23, 2003 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Broadcast Production Department Business Issues: The Pulse Points” at the Shoot Forum Conference in New York City. 
October 22, 2003 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Hot Topics in Advertising Law” at the New York City Bar.
March 19, 2003 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Media Marketing” at the Columbia University Business School in New York City.
March 12, 2003 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Identity Theft: Current Enforcement and Prevention Efforts” at the New York City Bar.
October 30, 2002 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Hot Topics in Advertising Law” at the New York City Bar.
October 17, 2002 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “How Interactive Advertising, Video on Demand, and Ad Supported Programming Will Change the Role of Agency Production Departments,” at the Shoot Forum Conference in New York City.
July 24, 2002 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Advertising on the Web: What You Need to Know to Keep Out of Trouble” at the New York New Media Association event in New York City.
July 18, 2002 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Marketing Violent Entertainment to Youth” at the New York County Lawyers Association event in New York City.
April 30, 2002 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Green Lights and Red Flags: FTC/BBB Rules of the Road for Advertisers” at the Federal Trade Commission in New York City.
April 11, 2002 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Consumer Protection in 2002 and Beyond” at the New York City Bar.
March 30, 2001 Jeffrey A. Greenbaum presented “Agency Contracts - Whose Risk is it Anyway” at the Producers Conference in San Francisco.
   
 
 
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