Russ August & Kabat is honored to have been ranked in the 2021 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list.  U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers joined to rank more than 14,000 firms across the United States. Firms included in the 2021 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. It is a great honor. Read more.

Russ August & Kabat Partner, Irene Y. Lee, a leading Intellectual Property lawyer in the region, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Business Journal for her assessment of the current state of IP legislation, the new rules of copyright protection, licensing and technology, and the various trends that she’s been observing, and in some cases, driving. Read the article.

Russ August & Kabat is proud of Larry C. Russ and Stanton ‘Larry’ Stein, who have been named to the Best Lawyers in America (2021 Edition), as well as of Jacob M. Agi, Diana A. Sanders, and Ashley R. Yeargan, who have been named to the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2021 Edition). Read more.

Stanton “Larry” Stein was selected for inclusion in Billboard‘s Top Music Lawyers 2020 list, which was published on July 25, 2020. This issue of Billboard recognizes the biggest names and most prominent legal minds in the world of music and entertainment law. Click here to view Billboard‘s Top Music Lawyers 2020 List.

Stanton “Larry” Stein is a partner and the head of Russ August & Kabat’s Media & Entertainment group. Larry’s clients include actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, high-net-worth individuals, entertainment guilds, talent agencies, personal and business management companies, independent production companies, and interactive gaming companies. Larry is widely known in the entertainment industry for his work taking on Hollywood studios. Throughout the last decades, Larry created legal theories for challenging the film and television accounting practices of vertically integrated studios and media conglomerates through litigation. He is literally the father of vertical integration accounting lawsuits. His efforts have changed the face of talent and rights holders’ contract negotiations with studios, networks, and their affiliated production companies, seeking to more evenly allocate revenue to profit participants including actors, directors, writers and producers. Larry has brought countless lawsuits on behalf of his clients against companies that were self-dealing on licensing fees and a variety of other revenue streams. In addition to his groundbreaking litigation in the profit participation space, Larry has also fought to establish copyright protection for formats in reality television, bringing the seminal lawsuit in that area of law. For additional information, https://www.raklaw.com/attorney/stanton-larry-stein/.

Russ August & Kabat is proud of Christine S. Shin who has been named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2020 Leaders of Influence: Private Equity Investors & Advisors list. Christine S. Shin, one of only eleven attorneys honored on the list, is among some truly outstanding professionals making up the Los Angeles private equity lending and advising landscape. Read the article.

Russ August & Kabat Partner Ashley R. Yeargan, who has been recognized as a Southern California Rising Star since 2012, was interviewed in the 2020 Super Lawyers Rising Stars magazine. Read more.

Rising Stars are the top 2.5% percent of attorneys in each state, under 40 years old and/or who have been practicing for 10 years or less, as chosen by their peers and through an independent research. The Rising Stars process is designed to identify lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Rising Stars is a comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys, representing a wide range of practice areas, firm sizes and geographic locations.