LOS ANGELES – Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to announce that Gail Migdal Title, head of the Firm’s Entertainment Litigation Practice and managing partner of its Los Angeles office, has been selected as Litigator of the Year by the Century City Bar Association. Ms. Title was honored at the Century City Bar Association’s 38th Annual Installation Dinner and Awards Ceremony on March 15 at the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa.

“Gail is one of the entertainment industry’s finest and most respected litigators,” said Vincent A.F. Sergi, national managing partner of Katten Muchin Rosenman. “We are very proud that she has been selected for this most deserved honor.”

In addition to serving as managing partner of Katten Muchin Rosenman’s Los Angeles office, Ms. Title is a member of the Firm's national Executive Committee and Board of Directors, as well as head of the Entertainment Litigation Practice.

Ms. Title is also a practicing litigator, handling a range of legal and business issues that arise in commercial disputes, with particular focus on the entertainment industry where her practice includes development, finance, production and distribution and involves trademark, unfair competition, contract, and business torts. Her practice encompasses all aspects of the entertainment industry, from motion picture and television development, finance, and production, to distribution in all media worldwide. She has extensive experience in state and federal, trial and appellate courts, as well as in arbitration tribunals.

Ms. Title has been involved in numerous precedent setting intellectual property cases, including representing several studios as amici in Grosso v. Miramax, a recent Ninth Circuit decision regarding copyright preemption, as well as representing petitioner Miramax in the United States Supreme Court in the same matter. She also represented Tom Clancy in Sohmer v. Clancy, a case that focused on the impact of the LMRA on the author's rights under the Copyright Act and representation of television exhibitors with respect to restoration of copyrights in foreign works under GATT and the Uruguay Accords.

Ms. Title has also handled many entertainment industry accounting disputes, primarily in defense of producers in actions brought by profit participants. She won judgments in favor of such producers in Anthony Yerkovich v. Universal; James Garner v. Universal; and DeGuere v. Universal. Additionally, Ms. Title also handled the case of Enright, et al. v. Universal, et al., in which she successfully defended a multi-billion dollar suit challenging the studio's distribution practices worldwide.

Ms. Title is a recognized leader in the Los Angeles legal community and the recipient of the Top Women Lawyers in Business WLALA Women of Distinction award. She was recognized as a “Super Lawyer” in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas in 2004 and 2005 by Los Angeles Magazine Inc. and is included in Marquis Who’s Who. Ms. Title regularly lectures on a wide range of entertainment, business, and ethics-related matters, and has served as a commentator on MSNBC and in various print publications.

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