Attorney Profile
Jonathan Kirsch
Member
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Practice areas
- Copyright
- Trademarks
- Publishing
- Intellectual property
- Entertainment law
Admitted
- California, 1976
Education
- Loyola Marymount University, J.D.
Author
- Kids Allowed, California Lawyer, November 1983
- Access to Courts, California Lawyer, September, 1984
- War on Lawyers?, California Lawyer, March, 1985
- Malpractice Insurance Crisis, California Lawyer, July, 1985
- Which Courthouse? What Advantage?, California Lawyer, May, 1986
- Prop. 51 Shakes the House of Torts, California Lawyer, June, 1986
- Legal Eagles, California Business, November, 1988
- Look What They’ve Done to My Songs: Midler v. Ford Motor Co.,
- California Lawyer, July, 1989
- Lonesome Dove and the Electronic Rights Revolution in Publishing, Los Angeles Lawyers, June 1990
- Buchwald v. Paramount: Beyond the Hype, Los Angeles Lawyer, April 1991
- Vanity of Vanities: Subsidy’ Publishing After Stellema, Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 2, 1992
- Ethics in Entertainment Law, Los Angeles Lawyer, April 1993
- Kirsch’s Handbook of Publishing Law, 1996
- Kirsch’s Guide to the Book Contract, Silman-James Press, 1999
- A History of the End of the World, Harper One, 2006
Associations & memberships
- Los Angeles Bar Association (Intellectual Property Section)
- State Bar of California (Intellectual Property Section)
- Los Angeles Copyright Society
- California Lawyers for the Arts
- PEN Center USA West
- Los Angeles Intellectual Property Association
Biographical details
- Teaching Fellow, Legal Communications, Loyola Law School, 1975-1976
- Adjunct Professor, Center for Publishing, New York University, 2001-
- Member: Authors Guild, National Book Critics Circle
- Columnist, Los Angeles Times Book Review