Practice Areas
- Entertainment and Business Litigation
- Right of Publicity Law / Privacy and Defamation Law
- Intellectual Property and Copyright Law
- Cyber, Domain and Social Media Protection
- Employment Law (Employer Protection, NDAs)
Honors & Awards
- Selected to Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2026
Education
- University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law
- J.D. - 1998
- Honors: Moot Court
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- B.A. (With Honors) - 1993
Bar Admissions
- California, 1998
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
Professional Associations
- Century City, Beverly Hills and Los Angeles County Bar Associations (Member, Sections on: Entertainment Law, Litigation, Intellectual Property)
Biography
With a client roster including numerous Hollywood A-Listers, influencers, business executives, and other high-net-worth individuals and their companies, and with almost three-decades as an attorney and two-decades as a partner with Lavely & Singer (renamed, in 2026, to Singer Weinsten Wolf & Jonelis), Evan Spiegel has been recognized as a Southern California “Super Lawyer.”
Evan Spiegel is one of Hollywood’s go-to rights protection attorneys (for actors, models, producers, business executives, agents, talent managers and management companies, production and distribution companies), known for his skill and specialization in talent, public figure and brand rights protection, including cyber-internet online rights of publicity, rights of privacy, intellectual property and copyright protection, cybersquatting and domain protection, and social media and online identity protection. Evan Spiegel’s practice covers a wide range of disputes regarding entertainment and media law, business and contract disputes and litigation, employment law and disputes, intellectual property and copyright and trademark litigation, defamation, rights of publicity, celebrity brand endorsement contracts, rights of privacy, domain name law, and online identity protection.
Speaker & Seminars
- Speaker/Panelist: CA Attorney General's (Kamala Harris’s) Cyber-Exploitation Roundtable & Panel (2015)
- Speaker/Panelist: CA Attorney General's Cyber Exploitation Working Group, and Education & Prevention Subcommittee (2015-16)
- Panel Organizer and Panelist, Motion Picture and Television Fund ("MPTF") PAN's: "Social Media's Impact on the Entertainment Industry: A Look at Talent-Side Use and Strategies" (featuring panelists from CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Twitter and WhoSay), (Aug. 2015)
Experience / Representative Cases
- Represented and advised celebrities, public figures and companies to protect and enforce brand identification.
- Successfully pursued and resolved numerous claims to protect and enforce the rights of publicity and rights of privacy on behalf celebrities, public figures and high-net-worth individuals, with a specialized expertise on online-rights protection.
- Successfully prosecuted claims on behalf of celebrities and public figures for commercial use of right of publicity.
- Successfully pursued numerous claims on behalf of celebrities, public figures and high-net-worth individuals for defamation.
- Successfully pursued, and defended, numerous claims and actions for copyright infringement on behalf of corporate and individual owners of photographic works, literary works, audiovisual works and other intellectual property.
- Successfully pursued claims and legal actions for trademark infringement on behalf of companies and individuals to protect and enforce brand identification.
- Successfully represented numerous clients in recovery of cybersquatting confusingly similar and unauthorized domain names; and administration of client protective domain holdings.
- Represented individuals and commercial clients in all manner of contractual disputes.
- Successfully pursued and obtained TRO and then injunction in federal court prohibiting and recalling distribution of a motion picture exploiting Oscar winning actor’s name, image and likeness in violation of client’s contractual rights.
- Successfully pursued and obtained a $1 Million Judgment and Permanent Injunction in federal court (2026), on behalf of Anthony Robbins and his companies against an AI Chatbot service site and app, arising from unauthorized exploitation of imposter and infringing Chatbots violating the clients’ trademarks and rights of publicity.
- Represented celebrities in national and international endorsement campaign agreement negotiations (in collaboration with their agents), and crafting of the services and rights agreements.
- Represented celebrities and high-net-worth individuals and their companies in employment disputes.
- Represent as outside general counsel advising and protecting high-net-worth individuals and their companies in negotiation and preparation of protective employment agreements and NDAs.
Reported Cases
- Gracie Films, Inc. v. BAL c/o Krystina Puzluska, ICANN Domain Name Arb., NAF Claim Number: FA0107000098214 (2001)
- Vin Diesel v. LMN a/k/a L.M. Nordell, ICANN Domain Name Arb., NAF Claim Number: FA0609000804924 (2006)
- Shana Hiatt v. personal fan & official site builders : we build great sites [a/k/a Binoj George], ICANN Domain Name Arb, NAF Claim Number: FA0701000881460 (2007)
- Robbins Research International, Inc. v. Netmarker Kft., ICANN Domain Name Arb, NAF Claim Number FA1005001326911 (2010)
- Vin Diesel v. Private Whois Service a/k/a Obmanim, ICANN Domain Name Arb., NAF Claim Number: FA1101001369947 (2011)
- Robbins Research International, Inc. v. Freddy Atton d/b/a Personal Focus Network, et al., USDC 2:11-cv-09313 (2012) (re MasteryUniversity.com)
- John Stamos v. Domain Admin / Whois Privacy Corp. and Ryan G Foo / PPA Media Services, ICANN Domain Name Arb., NAF Claim Number: FA1505001618847 (2015)
- Untitled Entertainment, Inc. v. Nanci Nette, ICANN Domain Name Arb., NAF Case No. FA1804001782023 (2018)
- Julia Haart v. Karrant Santos / Marca Blindada - Marcas & Patentes / Gabriel Verde, ICANN Domain Name Arb., NAF Case No. FA2112001977775 (2022)
- Robbins Research International, Inc. v. Biplob Hossen, ICANN Domain Name Arb, NAF Claim Number FA2304002038818 (2023) (recovery of OfficialTonyRobbins.com)
- Robbins Research International, Inc. v. [unknown holder], ICANN Domain Name Arb, NAF Claim Number FA2312002075882 (2024) (recovery of TonyRobbinsPodcast.com)
- Robbins Research International, Inc. v. Gary Rabatin, ICANN Domain Name Arb, NAF Claim Number FA2506002161350 (2025) (recovery of TonyRobbins.AI)
- Robbins Research International, Inc. v. Matthew Davis, ICANN Domain Name Arb, NAF Claim Number FA2506002161349 (2025) (recovery of TonyRobbinsAI.com)