About
A veteran entertainment attorney, arbitrator and writer, Mark Litwak additionally teaches leisure law at USC school of regulation. He recently gained a multi million greenback award towards a distributor who did not pay a filmmaker his percentage of movie revenue. Litwak additionally capabilities as an professional witness on amusement disputes and as a Producer s Rep, helping filmmakers in the advertising and distribution of their movies.
Litwak is the author of six books: Reel Power, The Struggle for Influence and Success within the New Hollywood (William Morrow, 1986), Courtroom Crusaders (William Morrow, 1989), Dealmaking inside the Film & Television Industry (Silman-James Press, 3rd. Ed. 2009)(winner of the 1996 Krazna-Kranz award for nice e book inside the international at the film enterprise), Contracts for the Film & Television Industry (Silman-James Press, 3rd Ed. 2012), Litwak s Multimedia Producer s Handbook (Silman-James Press, 1998) and Risky Business: Financing and Distributing Independent Film (2d Ed. 2009).
He has contributed articles for The Los Angeles Times, The Business of Film, The Hollywood Reporter, Moviemaker and The Independent. He is the creator of the famous CD-ROM application Movie Magic Contracts.
Mark Litwak earned a B.A. and M.A. from Queens College of the City University of New York, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University Of San Diego School Of Law. Mr. Litwak has been a attorney seeing that 1977. After graduation he became admitted to the bars in New York, California and Washington D.C. His exercise nowadays is based in Beverly Hills, California. He has an AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Southern California Super Lawyer via Law & Politics mag in 2006, 2007 and 2012.
As a law professor he has taught such subjects as entertainment regulation, copyright, torts and workerâs reimbursement at such institutions as U.S.C. Gould School of Law, Loyola Law School and the University of Puget Sound School of Law. He has taught entertainment regulation courses at U.C.L.A. extension for extra than 20 years. Litwak has lectured for persevering with felony educations programs of the American Bar Association as well as applications offered through the California and Texas country bar institutions. A common speaker, he has offered seminars across the USA, and in England, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada consisting of lectures at the American Film Institute, Harvard, Columbia, N.Y.U, the University of British Columbia and the Royal College of Art in London.
Litwak has represented clients in enjoyment enterprise arbitrations. He also serves as an arbitrator on the AAA and IFTA amusement panels. He has finished numerous AAA industrial arbitrator training workshops.
His historical past additionally includes stints as a television journalist, writing and generating information segments for Telepictures, and as a tv producer, with Marble Arch Productions. He is a former Vice President and General Counsel for Dorason, a merchant banking and communications agency. Litwak has packaged film projects and served as government producer on such characteristic films as "The Proposal," "Out Of Line" and "Pressure." He has supplied criminal services or labored as a rep on more than two hundred movement pics.
Litwak has been interviewed on more than one hundred television and radio shows consisting of ABC News, "The Larry King Show," National Public Radio s "All Things Considered," and CNN. He has been the challenge of articles in California Law Business, Australian Lawyer and L.A. Weekly. He is the author of the Magellan 4 Star website online, Entertainment Law Resources, at www.marklitwak.com.
Litwak changed into featured in a 2006 article in Southern California Super Lawyers magazine.
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U.S.C. Law Gould School of Law- Principal
Law Offices of Mark Litwak & Associates
1986
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Graduation year: 1974
