May 5, 2016
Rolling Stones not happy about Trump using their music
KHIKS founding and managing partner Larry Iser was quoted in The Washington Post today in Travis Andrews' piece on a phenomenon as predictable as the morning sunrise: the unauthorized use of popular songs by political candidates in their campaigns....
April 22, 2016
Suann MacIsaac Named Among 2016 Daily Journal “Top Women Lawyers”
Suann MacIsaac has been selected for inclusion in the 2016 list of “Top Women Lawyers” by California’s most prestigious legal publication, the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal....
April 21, 2016
Howard Weitzman and Larry Iser comment on Prince’s estate
Big news travels fast. And big questions follow right behind. On the very day pop superstar Prince was found dead, KHIKS founding members Howard Weitzman and Larry Iser were asked by The Hollywood Reporter and Los Angeles Times,...
April 21, 2016
Shawn Holley to be featured as panel member by Beverly Hills Bar Association
KHIKS partner Shawn Holley will be appearing at the May 4, 2016 CLE panel presentation by the Entertainment Law Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Based on her broad experience, Shawn will be offering advice and tips on...
April 20, 2016
Dale, Howard and Mike named ‘Top 100 Power Lawyers’ for 2016
KHIKS is proud to announce that founding members Dale Kinsella, Howard Weitzman and Michael Kump have been named to The Hollywood Reporter’s annual list of “Top 100 Power Lawyers” in the entertainment industry for 2016....
April 12, 2016
‘Variety’ recognizes Howard and Mike as 2016 Leading Entertainment Lawyers
In its annual “Legal Impact Report” for 2016, Variety selected KHIKS founding partners Howard Weitzman and Michael Kump as top litigators in the entertainment industry — the second year in a row each has received this high honor. Only twenty-two...
March 23, 2016
Howard Weitzman and Jeremiah Reynolds Comment on Hulk Hogan Privacy Lawsuit
Howard Weitzman was recently quoted in Carolina A. Miranda’s Los Angeles Times piece “Hulk Hogan verdict raises crucial privacy issues in the digital age,” which discusses the $140 million suit filed by Terry Bollea, a.k.a. Hulk Hogan, against the controversial...
March 14, 2016
Michael Kump named one of ‘Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America’
Lawdragon magazine has selected KHIKS founding partner Michael Kump for its "2016 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America," an honor also bestowed upon him in 2011. The Lawdragon 500 are selected from a combination of editorial research by Lawdragon staff,...
March 9, 2016
District Court awards KHIKS’s fees for defense of William Morris Endeavor (WME) Entertainment
The Honorable Stephen V. Wilson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California today granted KHIKS's motion for attorneys' fees in connection with our representation of defendant William Morris Endeavor (WME) Entertainment in a lawsuit brought by...
February 20, 2016
Scalia Often Put Limits On Rights In IP Decisions – Law360
Law360, New York (February 16, 2016, 11:03 PM ET) -- Justice Antonin Scalia wrote few opinions and dissents in intellectual property cases and was upfront that it was not exactly his favorite area of the law, but when he did...
February 17, 2016
9th Circuit says ‘Hurt Locker’ protected by First Amendment
In a resounding victory for the free-speech rights of filmmakers, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the 2010 Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker does not infringe the publicity rights of nor defame Master Sgt. Jeffrey S. Sarver,...
February 15, 2016
Is it ‘fair use’ or not? ‘That’swhatshesaid’ ruffles some copyright feathers
Driven by frustration over the lack of women's roles in theater, playwright Courtney Meaker, director Hatlo and creator/performer Erin Pike set out to show how women's roles in theater are light years behind men's, and in the process have raised...