Biography
Richard Chernick, Vice President and Managing Director of JAMS' Arbitration Practice, has conducted hundreds of large and complex arbitrations and mediations. Many matters involved the entertainment industry including the following representative cases.
Representative Mediations
- Contractual claims between producer and film distributor
- Copyright infringement claims involving the music industry
- Copyright infringement claim involving a television commercial
- Dispute between investors and producers of a documentary film series
- Dispute between recording artist and record label
- Dispute concerning loss of valuable entertainment industry product by a bailee
- Disputes between owner of cartoon properties and licensee
- Partnership dispute in video distribution business
- Trade name and personal privacy right claim by sports celebrity against advertiser and agency
Representative Arbitrations
- Contractual claims by owner of syndicated cartoon properties against distributor
- Contract dispute involving vertical integration issues in television syndication
- Dispute between international partners of film production and distribution business
- Dispute between professional sports teams involving a player trade
- Disputes between talent and agencies (SAG, JAMS and AAA administered arbitrations)
- Dissolution and post-dissolution trademark and contractual claims among members of musical group
- Dissolution of reality television production company and disposition of assets
- Idea submission claim involving a television series
- International licensing dispute in winter sports industry
- Profit participation and other contractual claims by producer against network
- Wrongful discharge and contractual claims by high-level executive of concert promoter
- Wrongful discharge claim by magazine executive against major entertainment conglomerate
- Wrongful discharge of an entertainment industry executive holding stock options in employer
- Wrongful termination claim by musician against network
Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS.
- Recognized as "Best Lawyers in Arbitration" and "Best Lawyers in Mediation," Best Lawyers, 2023
- Recognized as "Lawyer of the Year" for Arbitration in Los Angeles, 2020
- Listed on "Best Lawyers in America," Best Lawyers, 2020-2023
- Recipient of the "Champion of Justice" Award, Western Justice Center, 2019
- Recognized as an “ADR Champion”, National Law Journal, 2016-2018
- Los Angeles Arbitration Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2016
- Recognized as a Best Lawyer, Alternative Dispute Resolution Category, Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2016
- Selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2010-2016, 2019-2022
- Los Angeles ADR Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2011 and 2015
- Los Angeles Mediation Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2013
- Recognized as a leader among world's commercial arbitration specialists, Global Arbitration Review, 2013
- Recognized as a Top California Neutral, Daily Journal, 2003, 2006-2010 and 2012
- Recognized as a Best Lawyer, Southern California's Best Lawyers, 2012
- Recognized as a leading practitioner, Alternative Dispute Resolution Category, Who's Who Legal: California, 2009
- Selected as an entertainment law "Power Mediator," Hollywood Reporter, 2007
- Recognized as One of the 500 Leading Judges in America, Lawdragon Magazine, 2006
- Peacemaker of the Year, Southern California Mediation Association, 1999
- Griffin Bell Volunteer Service Award, Dispute Resolution Services, 1994
- Bernard E. Witkin Amicus Curiae Award, California Judicial Council, 1994
- Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Responsible Use of ADR, American Arbitration Association, 1993
- Presidential Award, Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, 1993
- Legal Services Leadership Award, Western Center on Law and Poverty, 1993
- Norma Zarky Memorial Award, Beverly Hills Bar Foundation, 1991
- Board member: California Dispute Resolution Council; Western Justice Center
- Former Chair of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section and of its Arbitration Committee
- Founding President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators
- Founding Chair of the ADR Committee of the State Bar of California
- Past president, Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and past Chairman of the Board of Dispute Resolution Services, Inc., the dispute resolution program of the Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Co-presenter, "Drafting and Enforcing Effective ADR Provisions," State Bar of California 84th Annual Meeting, 2011
- Author or co-author of leading texts on ADR, Employment ADR, and international arbitration and mediation; frequent trainer and lecturer on arbitration and mediation topics. Author of monthly ADR Practitioner column in Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal
- Received comprehensive training in JAMS in-house Entertainment Law workshops including, but not limited to:
- “Net Profits and New Media: The Future of Entertainment Litigation”
- "Legal Issues and Developments in Video Game Law"
ADR Profiles
- "The Pioneer," Daily Journal, ADR Profile, December 29, 2017
- "Right Place, Right Time," Daily Journal, ADR Profile, April 10, 2009
- Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 1977-1994; (associate, 1971-1976); specialized in commercial litigation and domestic and international arbitration
- Law Clerk, Donald R. Wright, Chief Justice of California, 1970-1971
- J.D., University of Southern California (USC), 1970 (Order of the Coif, Articles Editor, S. Cal. L. Rev.)
- A.B., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), (English), 1967
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