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Harold Friedman

Legal Expertise

Entertainment and New Media: financing, development, production, distribution and licensing of motion picture and television productions; representation of individual writers, directors, producers and performers.

Corporate: Commercial and international law, domestic and international banking, manufacturing and real property development.

 

Representative Matters

  • A 50-year career representing actors, directors, producers, and writers in the motion picture and television industry.
  • Representation of lenders and borrowers in the financing of independent motion pictures.
  • Active in the practice of private international law and the representation of domestic real estate developers and aerospace companies.
Harold Friedman

Partner - Los Angeles


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Phone:

  (310) 312-3104

Fax:

  (310) 231-8304
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Practice Area

Industry Focus

Motion picture and television, real estate, manufacturing, banking, aerospace

Education Collapse

  • Yale Law School, J.D., 1951
  • Harvard College, A.B., 1948; cum laude

Court Admissions Collapse

  • California, 1952
  • U.S. District Court, 1952
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1952

Professional Recognition Expand

  • "8 over 80," Los Angeles Business Journal (2012)
  • AV® Preeminent™ Rating, Martindale-Hubbell

Professional, Business, and Civic Affiliations Expand

  • Member, Los Angeles Copyright Society
  • Former Director and President, Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Southern California
  • Former Director and Treasurer, Big Brothers of Los Angeles
  • Co-Founder of the Pathway Program at UCLA Extension

Other Career Experience Expand

  • Law Clerk to Judge Albert Lee Stephens, Sr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Former Secretary of Western Costume Company for more than 25 years