Mathew S. Rosengart, co-chair of the National Media & Entertainment Litigation Practice of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will speak at Harvard Law School’s Entertainment Law Symposium April 3.
The three-day event is jointly hosted by the Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law and the Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law and will take place from April 1-3 on the Harvard Law School campus. The symposium brings together law students, faculty, alumni, and leading practitioners from across the country to discuss some of the most pressing legal issues in the entertainment industry.
Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor and Justice Department trial attorney, was named 2024’s Entertainment Litigator of the Year by Benchmark Litigation, which recognizes “the country’s most distinguished litigators … for their exemplary work,” according to the publication. Among other accolades, he has also been recognized as one of the Top 200 lawyers in the nation by Forbes, which described him as an “elite” and “revered” litigator who “brings the passion and legal expertise to private practice that made him notable as a federal prosecutor;” been named by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Litigators in America; been listed twice as a Litigation Trailblazer by The National Law Journal; and been recognized as a Media & Entertainment MVP by Law360. Labelled a “tough as nails streetfighter with a big brain and bigger principles,” Rosengart has been previously recognized by the Daily Journal as a Leading Commercial Litigator, California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY), and a Top 100 Lawyer in the Golden State as well as a Top Litigator & Trial Attorney by the Los Angeles Business Journal, which honors “masters of their craft” who “go to the proverbial mat for their clients” and recognized him as “one of the nation’s preeminent litigators” and a “go to litigator for Hollywood’s elite.” He also is a recipient of the Power of Law Award from Variety and the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Excellence in Advocacy Award for legal excellence and philanthropy and has consistently been recognized as one of the industry’s leading attorneys by Variety in its Legal Impact Report and The Hollywood Reporter in its prestigious “Power Lawyers” list.
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