Avocats – United States

Dylan Kletter

Partner

Brown Rudnick LLP

Dylan Mason

Associate - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Dylan Price

Dylan Price is a seasoned trial lawyer and strategic advocate who represents leading entertainment, media, fashion and retail companies in complex disputes, and guides them through transactional risks and business strategy. Counseling entertainment clients throughout the creative lifecycle—Dylan advises on copyright and trademark clearance, navigating rights and licensing challenges, and delivering practical solutions to business-critical problems. Known for his strategic insight and practical, results-driven approach, he helps clients anticipate legal and commercial risks, make informed decisions and achieve successful outcomes through settlement or trial. Dylan has taken multiple matters to jury verdict. He frequently appears before state and federal courts as well as arbitrations before JAMS, AAA and IFTA. Dylan’s broad entertainment litigation practice covers a wide range of disputes involving content claims, distribution rights, licensing, participation accounting claims, sponsorship and endorsement agreements, final cut rights, partnership and commission matters, defamation claims and breaches of contract. In copyright, trademark and right of publicity matters, Dylan has significant experience both protecting his clients’ intellectual property rights and defending against claims of infringement. Advising studios, filmmakers and other content creators on IP clearance, fair use and sensitive risk assessments, Dylan uses his deep industry knowledge to provide business-focused guidance to help his clients make informed, risk-based business decisions. Beyond the entertainment and media industries, Dylan represents corporate clients in business, tort, insurance and consumer litigation, including defending national retailers and fashion companies in consumer privacy and false advertising disputes. Outside the office, Dylan enjoys spending time with his family at the beach. A classic car enthusiast, he is a proud daily driver of a 1968 Porsche 912.

Sheppard

Dylan Scher

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Dylan W. Benac

Dylan Benac focuses his practice on financial lending, hedging and banking transactions. He advises lenders and borrowers in a variety of traditional and creative secured and unsecured credit transactions, including reserve-based loans, acquisition financings, revolvers, term loans and bankruptcy exit facilities. He also has experience in secured and unsecured hedging transactions, commodity transactions and hedge divestitures. Before joining Bracewell, Dylan was an associate with a large international law firm and served as a judicial intern to Justice Jeffrey S. Boyd of the Texas Supreme Court

Bracewell LLP

Dylan Wiseman

For 28 years, Mr. Wiseman has practiced exclusively in the fields of trade secrets, unfair competition, and employee mobility. Mr. Wiseman is the Co-Chair of Buchalter’s Trade Secret and Employee Mobility Practice Group. Since 2021, Dylan has been recognized by the Daily Journal, California’s legal industry newspaper, as among the Top Trade Secrets Lawyers in California. He is nationally recognized by London-based IAM (Intellectual Asset Management) for trade secret litigation. In 2023, IAM tapped Mr. Wiseman as its exclusive commentator on trade secrets law for the United States. In 2024, Mr. Wiseman spoke via Zoom at the United States Patent & Trademark Office’s trade secrets conference in Bangkok, Thailand for the Association of South East Asian Nations. In 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office tapped Mr. Wiseman to present on the status of U.S. trade secrets at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s trade secret workshop in Incheon, South Korea. Mr. Wiseman represents businesses, on both the plaintiff and defense side in disputes involving: Trade secrets Unfair competition Employee mobility and en masse departures Antitrust claims Disputes involving customer non-solicitation restrictions He also counsels employers and start-ups regarding best practices for intellectual property. Mr. Wiseman’s diverse group of clients include: Insurance brokerages Venture capital, private equity, and investment banking firms Aerospace companies Artificial intelligence and machine learning companies Mortgage banking firms Biomedical device companies Inventors Professional service firms Life sciences companies Renewable and sustainable energy companies Casinos Healthcare companies Sporting goods companies Media outlets Commercial banks Mr. Wiseman has extensive jury trial experience. He has been lead trial counsel in several complex designated unfair competition jury trials, including an eight-week jury trial. Mr. Wiseman also has substantial first-chair experience in complex arbitrations. Because of his trial experience, the California Lawyers Association asked Mr. Wiseman to be the sole author of the chapter on jury instructions in the treatise Trade Secret Litigation & Protection: A Practice Guide to the DTSA and CUTSA (4th Ed. 2021). Mr. Wiseman’s chapter provides a comprehensive critique of the CACI 4400 series jury instructions used for trade secret claims. Similarly recognizing Mr. Wiseman’s two decades of trade secrets trial verdicts, he is a co-author of the Template Civil Jury Instructions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, which was published in 2021 in the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal. In 2023, Mr. Wiseman joined The Sedona Conference – Working Group 12 (Trade Secrets), which is developing a set of pattern jury instructions for the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act. Appearing in state and federal courts, Mr. Wiseman has extensive experience litigating disputes under: The Uniform Trade Secrets Act The Defend Trade Secrets Act The Sherman Antitrust Act The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act California’s Unfair Competition Law, Business and Professions Code, section 17200 California’s Business & Professions Code sections 16600 and 16601 California’s intellectual property assignment provisions California Penal Code section 502 California’s employee duty loyalty provisions On multiple occasions, Mr. Wiseman has taught continuing education seminars regarding trade secrets and unfair competition litigation for the State Bar of California’s Labor and Employment Law Section. An award-winning lecturer, he has also taught continuing legal education seminars regarding intellectual property protection, social media and confidentiality, computer forensics, and eDiscovery. In 2017, Mr. Wiseman opened the Sacramento office after working for a year to plan, organize, and recruit the other Sacramento attorneys. The Sacramento office now has over 40 resident lawyers. Prior to joining Buchalter, Mr. Wiseman was a Shareholder for ten years at Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest labor and employment law firm.

Buchalter Law Firm

Dávid Duda

Dávid is a junior associate and a member of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice primarily on banking and finance transactions. He has also gained extensive experience while working on projects related to M&A, capital markets, and financial regulation.

Dentons

E. (Ted) Tazewell Ellett

Senior Counsel

Hogan Lovells US LLP

E. Barney Robinson III

Barney's practice focuses on commercial litigation and governmental litigation. He is Vice Chair of the Committee on Character and Fitness of the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions and is a member of the Standing Committee on Local Civil Rules for the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi.

Butler Snow LLP

E. Desmond Hogan

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

E. Garrison White

Attorney

Offit Kurman

E. Marcellus Williamson

Partner

Latham & Watkins

E. Paul Quinn

Co-Chair, M&A and Private Equity Practice

Akerman LLP

E. Righton Johnson-Lewis

Butler Snow LLP

E. Sawyer Neely

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Eagle Robinson

Norton Rose Fulbright

Earl Austin

Senior Counsel

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Earl Austin

Senior Counsel

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Earl Comstock

Senior Policy Counsel

White & Case LLP

Eason Balch

Of Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Eben Flaster

Partner

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

Ed Allen

Of Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Ed Haden

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Ed Pagano

Ed Pagano provides advice to clients in the artificial intelligence, antitrust, communications, small business, privacy and emerging technology, among others. He has a profound understanding of the federal government’s inner workings, given his tenure with the Obama administration as Senate liaison and deputy assistant to the President for legislative affairs and with Sen. Leahy and the Senate Judiciary Committee for more than 20 years. Ed began his professional career as an associate at a large law firm before moving on to serve as a field director for the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign in 1992. During college, he played power forward for four years for the Vermont Catamounts basketball team. He remains active at the University of Vermont as a member of the board of trustees and through alumni and student engagement. To learn more about Ed, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/ed-pagano.html

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