Charles M. Coate is a partner in the firm.  He began practicing law in 1989 and has focused on business and entertainment litigation since 1991.  As a litigator, Mr. Coate has represented or been retained by AIG, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, American Airlines, Nu Image, Inc. and Millennium Films, Inc. in addition to numerous motion picture producers, distributors and financiers.  In recent years he has also litigated or resolved disputes involving Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, Miramax Film Corporation, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Larry King, among others.  

Mr. Coate is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeal For the Fourth and Ninth Circuits and the Courts of The State of California.  He is also a long-standing member of the Entertainment Sections of the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles County Bar Associations and has lectured at the South By Southwest Film Festival and before the Beverly Hills Bar Association on entertainment litigation issues.

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