Practice Areas
- Entertainment Litigation
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Business Litigation
- Defamation Litigation
Honors & Awards
- Named a "Rising Star" by Southern California Super Lawyers, 2025-2026
Education
- William and Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Virginia
- J.D. - 2020
- Elon University
- B.S. - 2015
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Major: Marketing with Focus in Sales, Leadership Studies
Bar Admissions
- California, 2021
- Tennessee, 2021
Biography
Max's practice includes protecting clients in disputes in all areas of the entertainment industry, as well as in general business and employment disputes, including in media and intellectual property matters, contract disputes, defamation and reputation protection, and invasion of privacy.
EXPERIENCE / REPRESENTATIVE CASES
- Representation of a high-profile entertainer in a multi-forum dispute involving fraud, corporate-governance misconduct, and misuse of NIL rights. Successfully defeated multiple procedural challenges—including demurrer, motion to quash, forum non conveniens, and motion to disqualify counsel—while prosecuting affirmative claims for financial misconduct and unauthorized exploitation of publicity rights.
- Representation of a prominent businessperson and his commercial entities against an international and AI-powered defamation and extortion ring. Successfully removed hundreds of thousands of false and defamatory articles regarding the clients and secured a favorable settlement and stipulated judgment with numerous once-anonymous wrongdoers after aggressively acting to unveil their true identities in discovery.
- Representation of a music industry mogul and his recording and publishing entities in a 50-million dollar arbitration dispute. Secured a completely absolving interim and final award, defeating the claims and numerous efforts by the opposing counsel to expand the arbitrator’s governing rules and authority.
- Representation of a music-rights administrator in a dispute with a licensing collective concerning unreasonable catalog freezes, unsubstantiated claims of wrongdoing, and royalty-payment delays.
- Secured favorable settlement for a songwriter litigating against top-selling artist and his lead producer who attempted to deny the client credit and owed substantial compensation for his original contributions to a Billboard chart-topping single that had earned millions of dollars in royalties.
- Secured favorable settlement for scripted television writer/producer in private arbitration against a major production company that attempted to avoid its credit and payment obligations to the client.
- Representation of world-renowned model and socialite in numerous intellectual property and publicity rights disputes against photographers and designers involving alleged copyright and trademark infringements and the client’s purported uses of images featuring her own likeness.
- Representation of high-net-worth tenants in residential property litigation involving liability for fire damage arising out of the 2025 Palisades fires, wrongful withholding of a substantial security deposit, and unlawful “self-help” statutory violations.
- Successfully handled thousands of takedowns, registrar-level actions, and pre-litigation resolutions involving domain misappropriation, false and defamatory articles, and unauthorized NIL uses.
Professional Associations
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, 2022 to Present
- Beverly Hills Bar Association, 2022 to Present