Entertainment, Digital, & Sports
Jackson Walkerâs Entertainment, Digital, & Sports Group leverages both its years of experience and full-service resources and capabilities to provide clients with valued advice in the multiple sectors and disciplines of the entertainment and sports industries, including with respect to their digital or ânew mediaâ matters.
Not surprisingly, the digital marketplace has quickly become the focus of Jackson Walkerâs clients within entertainment, sports, and across other commercial industries. Advances in new technology are leading to new fields of industry and, in turn, new legislation and precedent-setting cases on a seemingly regular basis. The multidimensional development of the new digital age, together with the globalization of financing, production, distribution, and licensing, is driving change at a speed and level of complexity never before encountered.
Clients turn to Jackson Walker because they are looking for creative, insightful attorneys who combine business acumen, legal experience, and vision to guide them safely and profitably through both known and unexplored commercial and legal landscapes. Such cutting-edge advice requires unique market insights about what drives these industries and the legal acuity necessary to not only know what todayâs issues are, but to anticipate what tomorrowâs issues will be as technology and its related business models and practices continue to develop.
Areas of Service
- Entertainment Litigation
Our entertainment litigators take an aggressive but strategic approach toward helping clients across the entertainment industry to solve their business challenges, protect their creative works, and defend their legal rights.
- Digital
Our digital and new media attorneys help assess, create, and implement winning legal solutions for clients in furtherance of their online, e-commerce, social media, digital marketing, digital distribution, and digital rights management strategies.
- Sports
From teams to owners, governing bodies, venues, and professional and Olympic athletes, our sports law attorneys have represented the full range of players in the business of sports.
* Jackson Walker does not accept unsolicited submissions for films, television programs, musical works, or other ideas or materials for any entertainment or media industry projects; and does not provide literary or talent agent services, talent management services, artist development services, shopping services, broker/dealer services, business management services, or the like.
April 3, 2024
Attorney News
Marc Fuller Appointed to Law360’s 2024 Editorial Advisory Board
Marc Fuller has been appointed to Law360’s 2024 Editorial Advisory Boards in the Media & Entertainment sector.
February 29, 2024
Mentions
Chip Babcock Profiled in Best American Baseball Experts Society
“Chip has earned a reputation as one of the nationâs top litigators and has garnered many awards from many distinguished trial groups along the way. There are likely more achievements to come as he continues to practice full-time, but the interesting storyline to me is that despite all of his success in a notoriously adversarial profession, Chip remains a down-to-earth, hail-fellow-well-met, in the truest sense of the terms. That is exceedingly rare in the modern world of Rambo litigation.”
February 5, 2024
Mentions
Paul Watler Featured in âThe Texas Lawbookâ Discussing the Fifth Circuit Decision on Journalist’s First Amendment Lawsuit
Jackson Walker partner Paul C. Watler shared insight with The Texas Lawbook on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s 9-7 decision that law enforcement officers in Laredo, Texas, who arrested citizen-journalist Priscilla Villarreal in 2017, cannot be sued for violating her First Amendment rights.
January 16, 2024
Insights
Sweet Caroline, No | SportsTravel Winners & Losers
With apologies to Neil Diamond, Bob Latham’s first SportsTravel column of 2024Â takes on what is rapidly becoming the most over-played song in sports.
October 13, 2023
Mentions
Paul Watler Featured in ‘ABA Journal’ Discussing Rise of Costly Libel Cases
As Gannett Co., the parent company of leading national newspaper USA Today, faces off against tax services provider Ryan LLC in a defamation and fraud lawsuit, Paul Watler shared insight with the ABA Journal on the increase of libel cases and the changing legal landscape.
September 11, 2023
Insights
Appreciating the Mittys of Sports | SportsTravel Winners & Losers
Some of the greatest moments in sports have come when everyday people are thrust into the spotlight.
By Bob Latham
August 23, 2023
Speaking Engagements
Shayan Gaziani and Demi Williams Speak on NIL Panel Presented by Dallas Bar Associationâs Entertainment, Art & Sports Law Section
The Dallas Bar Associationâs Entertainment, Art & Sports Law Section on August 23, 2023, hosted a CLE panel featuring Jackson Walker attorneys Shayan Gaziani and Demi Williams along with Justin Jones (Fee Smith & Sharp), Andrew Rhoden (Masterly Legal Solutions), and Kheana Pollard (Bell Nunnally & Martin).
August 16, 2023
Insights
With Police Actions Recently Targeting Journalists, Will Courts Protect the Rights of the Free Press? | The Texas Lawbook
“In an era when common understandings of the U.S. Constitution are questioned more than ever, the Marion and Laredo cases show â as never before â the vital importance of federal courts in protecting fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment,” Paul Watler wrote in this article contributed to The Texas Lawbook.
July 26, 2023
Newsletters
JW Media | VIA ePostcard â July 2023
View the July 2023 edition of the JW Media | VIA ePostcard.
