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A Los Angeles native, Mr. Sprecher is an
attorney whose practice focuses on all areas of entertainment law
representing talent.
Long before practicing law, Mr. Sprecher
followed the path of many Los Angeles natives -- appearing in
television commercials as a child. Thirty years later, Mr.
Sprecher remains an active member of the entertainment
industry, providing legal services to talent and independent
producers.
In 1992, Mr. Sprecher joined the firm of
Lavely & Singer P.C., one of the nations preeminent
entertainment litigation firms representing talent, as a summer law
clerk. After graduation in 1993, Mr. Sprecher joined the
firm as an associate for the following seven years. Mentored
by the finest entertainment litigators in Los Angeles, Mr. Sprecher
developed extensive experience in a wide variety of fast-paced
litigation representing talent.
In 2000, Mr. Sprecher joined the
entertainment litigation department at Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine
& Regenstreif LLP, one of Los Angeles' fastest growing law
firms. In September 2005, after the entertainment
litigation department grew to more than eight practitioners,
Mr. Sprecher decided to launch his own firm.
Mr. Sprecher's experience includes cases
in state and federal courts involving, among many other issues,
talent disputes, employment disengagement and wrongful termination
claims, pension fund claims, distribution rights, profit and
accounting issues, copyright infringement, right of publicity,
domain name and cybersquatting disputes, and defamation. Mr.
Sprecher also has significant experience before the California
Department of Industrial Relations and in arbitrations before the
Hollywood guilds.
Mr. Sprecher's reported decisions
include:
- ABKCO Music, Inc. v. La
Vere, 217 F.3d 684 (9th Cir. 2000)
- Endemol Entertainment, B.V.
v. Twentieth TV, 48 U.S.P.Q. 2d 1524 (U.S.D.C. Cal
1998)
- Bettie Page v. Something
Weird Video, 908 F.Supp. 714 (C.D.Cal. 1995)
- Bettie Page v. Something
Weird Video, 960 F.Supp. 1438 (C.D.Cal. 1996)
- Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v.
Welles, 7 F.Supp.2d 1098 (S.D.Cal.1998)
- Sobini Films v. Tri-Star
Pictures, Inc., 61 U.S.P.Q.2d 1930 (U.S.D.C. Cal
2001).
- SEC
v. Kasirer, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6494 (N.D.Ill. March 21,
2005)
- Garry Kasparov v.
Mark Andreev, NAF Case No. FA0505000471047 (June
16, 2005) (domain name dispute)
- Carmen Electra, a/k/a
Tara Leigh Patrick v. Network Operations Center,
D2003-0852 (WIPO)
- The Stein Agency
v. James Tripp-Haith, TAC
46-05
- Ruut Demeo v. Randy Spencer, TAC
22-06
Mr. Sprecher is a graduate of the
University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1985) and Southwestern
University School of Law (J.D., 1993).
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