Biography
Chad Fitzgerald specializes in entertainment and business litigation as well as transactional matters for entertainment industry clients. He has represented actors, musicians, professional athletes, clients in the apparel industry, distribution and production entities, personal managers, and talent agents and agencies in a variety of disputes in state and federal court, as well as before the California Labor Commissioner and the entertainment guilds. Mr. Fitzgerald has handled profit participation, financing, distribution, copyright, and trademark disputes as well as litigation matters involving contracts, partnership and franchise disputes, business torts, privacy, and defamation.
Prior to joining KWIKA, Mr. Fitzgerald worked as an attorney in Universal Pictures' Business and Legal Affairs Department, negotiating and drafting agreements to acquire motion picture rights and engaging writers, producers, directors, and actors to render services for Universal. While at Universal, Mr. Fitzgerald also handled above- and below-the-line agreements for films in production and oversaw all of Universal's visual and special effects agreements.
Mr. Fitzgerald is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. with distinction in English, 1998) and the UCLA School of Law (J.D. 2001). While in law school, he externed for the Honorable J. Spencer Letts, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Mr. Fitzgerald has been recognized as a "Rising Star" by Los Angeles Magazine. He sits on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Rowing Club and of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Santa Monica.
Chad Fitzgerald specializes in entertainment and business litigation as well as transactional matters for entertainment industry clients. He has represented actors, musicians, professional athletes, clients in the apparel industry, distribution and production entities, personal managers, and talent agents and agencies in a variety of disputes in state and federal court, as well as before the California Labor Commissioner and the entertainment guilds. Mr. Fitzgerald has handled profit participation, financing, distribution, copyright, and trademark disputes as well as litigation matters involving contracts, partnership and franchise disputes, business torts, privacy, and defamation.
Prior to joining KWIKA, Mr. Fitzgerald worked as an attorney in Universal Pictures' Business and Legal Affairs Department, negotiating and drafting agreements to acquire motion picture rights and engaging writers, producers, directors, and actors to render services for Universal. While at Universal, Mr. Fitzgerald also handled above- and below-the-line agreements for films in production and oversaw all of Universal's visual and special effects agreements.
Mr. Fitzgerald is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. with distinction in English, 1998) and the UCLA School of Law (J.D. 2001). While in law school, he externed for the Honorable J. Spencer Letts, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Mr. Fitzgerald has been recognized as a "Rising Star" by Los Angeles Magazine. He sits on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Rowing Club and of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Santa Monica.
