Robert L. Seigel << back to list of attorneys
Partner rlsentlaw@aol.com
Admitted: New York

Robert L. Seigel is a well-known entertainment transactional attorney who specializes in the representation of directors, individual producers, production companies, writers, distribution companies and foreign sales agents concerning the development, production, marketing, distribution and licensing of fiction and non-fiction projects. His practice also includes representing performing artists, music recording and publishing companies, talent management companies, book authors, playwrights and digital media content and website developers.

Clients’ projects have appeared theatrically and on network, syndicated, public and cable television and have earned Academy Award nominations, Emmy nominations and awards, and prizes at major film festivals.
Current Contributing Editor, Indie Slate; Former Contributing Editor The Independent, the magazine for the Foundation for Independent Video and Film.
Author of numerous articles on business and legal topics for such publications as FILMMAKER, the magazine for the Independent Feature Project, Entertainment Law & Finance, Film Festival Today and The Benjamin Cardozo Journal of Arts & Entertainment Law.
Has lectured on issues concerning the motion picture and television industry at the Practising Law Institute, New York County Lawyers Association, New York Womn in Film & Television, the School of Visual Arts, the Association for Independent Video & Film, the Independent Feature Project, the Avignon/New York Film Festival, New York University, the School of Visual Arts and at other film, video and television seminars and panels.
Resource Consultant for the Independent Feature Project.
Member of the American Bar Association; the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section and the Motion Picture Committee of the New York State Bar; and the Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Section of the New York County Lawyers Association.
B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa at Queens College.
J.D., St. John's School of Law.
   

Practice Areas

> Entertainment Law
> Copyright
> Publishing

 

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