Senior Partner, Goldring, Hertz & Lichtenstein LLP (Los Angeles)
Ken is a Senior Partner in the Beverly Hills law firm of Goldring Hertz and Lichtenstein LLP. Ken and his partners specialize in representing talent and new media companies in the entertainment industries. The firm’s clients include Will Smith, Destiny’s Child, Beyonce Knowles, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, The Black Eyed Peas, Will.i.Am, Herbie Hancock, Britney Spears, Jason Mraz, The Script and Janet Jackson. Prior to joining the firm, Ken was in charge of music – business and legal affairs – for The Walt Disney Company.
Ken is also a principal in MemBrain – an entertainment strategy consulting firm. MemBrain consults a number of firms engaged in businesses operating in the entertainment content, fashion, technology and marketing industries (MemBrain’s clients include McDonald’s, Hasbro, Coty, Intel and The Intercontinental Hotel Group). Ken is a frequent speaker and commentator on the subjects of entertainment, marketing and convergence, is often quoted in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, has appeared on CNBC’s monthly newsmagazine Business Nation, has been an instructor at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management, and is currently an adjunct professor of law at USC.
Ken is also active in various causes – he is on the national board of directors of the ACLU Foundation, the Violence Policy Center, and the Drug Policy Alliance – and in December 2002 he, and his partner, Fred Goldring, received the ACLU’s Bill of Rights Award.
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