Jeffrey Kravitz is an experienced entertainment mediator and arbitrator with over 20 years of entertainment litigation experience. Jeffrey was brought up in a working-class family where his father drove a truck and later owned a dry-cleaning store. At the age of 19, he left UCLA early to run his father’s business while he was ill. Once he got well, he worked his way through school, both undergraduate and law school.
Since then, he’s worked as an entertainment litigator for more than 20 years, bringing extensive negotiation skills and experience as a mediator and arbitrator in the State of California, with a focus on resolving entertainment, intellectual property, and insurance matters. His practical, approachable style combined with his hard-nosed empathy and patience make me the ideal neutral to help make peace for warring parties. He believes that yesterday’s foe can be tomorrow’s partner, if conflicts are managed and resolved.
Jeffrey possesses more than three decades of legal experience, including in the areas of:
- Business
- Entertainment
- Intellectual Property
- Copyrights
- Trademarks
- Unfair competition
- Media
- Trade secrets
- Partnership disputes
- Employment / Workplace
Jeffrey has been honored with numerous awards throughout his career, some of which have included being named by Chambers Legal Directory as the “Who’s Who Legal” list in the area of Sports & Entertainment Law (2014). Most recently Jeffrey was selected “Top Intellectual Property Litigator” in California by the Daily Journal (2015).
Education & Training
- Pepperdine Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, 2018
- Loyola Law School; Law Review Editor and Moot Court champion, J.D., 1975
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); departmental honors in Political Science, B.A., cum laude, 1972
Organizations & Achievements
- Twice named as one of the leading intellectual property, trademark, copyright and trade secrets attorneys in California by Chambers USA
- Recognized by the Daily Journal as a Top IP Attorney and one of the Top 10 Entertainment Litigation Attorneys
- Selected for inclusion in Who’s Who Legal in Sports and Entertainment Law
- Named a Southern California “Super Lawyer” in Intellectual Property annually since 2003
- American Arbitration Association mediator and arbitrator
- Mediation panelist for U.S. District Court, Los Angeles Superior Court, Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Panelist in the “Breaking into Entertainment Law” program presented by the Beverly Hills Bar Association Entertainment Law Section
- Featured in numerous publications and media, including the Daily Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Law360, The Hollywood Reporter,
- Entrepreneur Podcast Network, Los Angeles Business Journal, Forbes.com, Philadelphia Business Journal and Intellectual Property Today