Steve’s recent high-profile engagements include the following:

• ABC and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in a nationwide series of cases raising constitutional challenges to The Walt Disney Company’s enforcement of its Vaccine Mandate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Shein Distribution Corporation, the hugely successful online fast fashion platform in a federal district court RICO action raising allegations of criminal copyright infringement.
• One of the leading streaming platforms in a multi-million dollar dispute over a rival’s failure to deliver motion pictures for streaming under an output agreement
• Jimmy Donaldson (p/k/a “MrBeast), the world’s leading YouTube creator (with over 250 million subscribers to his channel) in a $100 million contract and business tort lawsuit relating to Donaldson’s endorsement contracts
• United Talent Agency, one of the “Big-3” Hollywood talent agencies, in the highly publicized dispute between the Writers Guild of America and the agencies, including in federal court litigation raising antitrust, RICO, labor, and business tort issues.
• Universal Music Group in several landmark copyright infringement lawsuits concerning the legality of displaying and distributing copyrighted music videos on “user-generated content” websites and the scope of the safe harbors of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for such activities.
• NBCUniversal and Legendary Entertainment in the defense of a class action alleging the studios’ text messaging campaign to promote the motion picture, Warcraft, violated various provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
• Warner Bros. Entertainment in a well-publicized class action alleging that the studios have failed to account properly for the exploitation of motion pictures in home video and video-on-demand markets.
• Activision in a multi-billion lawsuit relating to the development and profits from the best-selling Call of Duty video game series.
• A well-known consulting firm in a series of multiparty business tort actions arising out of a highly publicized credit card data security and privacy breach.

Other representative matters include:

• Acclaimed writer and director Peter Jackson in a dispute with New Line Pictures concerning Mr. Jackson’s profit participation for the blockbuster The Lord of the Rings trilogy of motion pictures.
• Pixar Animation Studios in the successful defense of several copyright actions alleging characters and story elements in Pixar motion pictures such as Onward, The Incredibles, Monster's Inc. and Finding Nemo infringed on third party rights.
• Successfully prosecuted, on behalf of Walt Disney Pictures, a trademark infringement action of Disney’s rights in the motion picture Frozen.
• Universal Music Group before the Supreme Court of California in a landmark case defining the scope of attorney-client privilege in California (HLC Properties v. UMG Recordings, Inc.).
• Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman in the landmark decision establishing the right to summary disposition motions in California arbitrations (Schlessinger v. Rosenfeld Meyer & Susman)..
• Dove Audio in a landmark case defining the scope of California’s anti-SLAPP statute.
• Mark Burnett against copyright infringement claims involving the NBC television series The Apprentice and Mr. Burnett in an arbitration over his rights in the CBS series Survivor.
• A leading video game publisher in a series of RICO and commercial bribery suits involving rights to the highly successful WWE video game series. 

• Lectured at many professional seminars, including the ABA Litigation Section Annual Meeting, the ABA Forum on Sports and Entertainment Law Annual Meeting, the PLI Antitrust Institute, and the USC Entertainment Law Institute.