Educational & Professional Background

Charles B. Rosenberg received his B.A. from Antioch College in 1968 and his J.D. Degree from Harvard Law School in 1971, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Chuck spent earlier years of his career as an associate and, later, partner, in two downtown Los Angeles law firms, where he focused on a wide range of complex business-related litigation, representing large companies in both state and Federal courts.
Currently, he divides his professional time among lawyering, teaching, litigation management (including testifying as an expert witness), counseling start-up entrepreneurial companies, and consulting for prime time television.

Areas of Practice

IP and Entertainment Litigation and counseling/Entrepreneurial Companies
Chuck continues to represent clients in business litigation, with a focus on IP (particularly copyright) and entertainment, representing production companies, writers and others involved in the movie and television industry. His practice spans both litigation and counseling. Chuck also represents and counsels entrepreneurial companies outside the entertainment space.

Teaching

In recent years, Chuck has taught both Entertainment Law and Copyright Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law, Advanced Civil Discovery and Law and Popular Culture at the Loyola Law School as well as Legal Strategies for Business Leaders in the Executive MBA Program (EMBA) of the Anderson graduate School of Management at UCLA. That course focused on the management of litigation and business legal issues.  In prior years he taught civil Remedies at both the UCLA School of Law and the Southwestern University School of Law. In 2006, he was qualified and testified as an expert witness in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In that case, he testified on the projection of legal fees and costs with regard to the multi-million dollar bank litigation pending in the Adelphia bankruptcy matter.

Television

Chuck has been the credited legal technical consultant to the prime time hit Boston Legal and filled the same role with The Practice, LA Law and Paper Chase (Showtime). He was also the on-air legal commentator for E! Television’s coverage of the OJ Simpson criminal and civil trials and wrote a nationally distributed book on the trial.

Bar Admissions

California, 1972
District of Columbia, 1980