Miles Feldman

Founding Partner

[email protected]

310-734-0398

310-691-1943

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Overview

Areas of Practice

Education

Admissions

Significant Engagements & Transactions

Professional Affiliation

Professional Membership

Publications, Recognitions and Speaking Engagements

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Overview

Miles Feldman is a founding partner of Raines Feldman Littrell LLP and a nationally recognized trial lawyer with decades of experience in complicated, high-profile disputes. He helped build the firm into a legal powerhouse. Known for handling the toughest business cases through trial and appeal, Miles has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America by U.S. News & World Report and one of the Top 100 lawyers in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. He has been honored as a “Business Visionary” twice by the Los Angeles Times and named as a Super Lawyer every year since 2008. He holds an “AV Preeminent” rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Miles handles all manner of complex business, competition, and intellectual property disputes. His clients span entertainment, technology, media, finance, hospitality, and other industries. Known for using creative and innovative approaches, he has solved crises, managed high risks and secured jury verdicts and judgments worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Miles enhances his legal practice with the study of mindfulness, meditation, and behavioral psychology. Outside the courtroom he is also a musician, lifelong surfer, and nonprofit advisor, leading a local band that supports charitable causes.

Education

  • J.D., University of California, Berkeley Law
  • B.A., University of California at Berkeley, Rhetoric, Honors and Distinction

Admissions

  • State Bar of California
  • United States Appeals Court, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Courts, All Districts in California
  • Previously admitted pro hac vice in New York, Florida, and Missouri

Significant Engagements & Transactions

  • Ran trial team in a three-week jury trial against a publicly traded media company over a stock sale transaction and obtained highly favorable settlement while jury was deliberating.
  • Obtained a complete defense verdict victory for Julien’s Auctions (premier celebrity auction house) after a four-week jury trial in Los Angeles Superior Court.
  • Ran trial team in four-week jury trial on behalf of a private equity company against claims of fraud and interference with contract and obtained a complete defense victory.
  • Supervised consumer product trademark litigation (including national trademark confusion survey) and co-chaired month-long jury trial concerning trademark ownership and infringement. Obtained significant jury verdict in favor of the client.
  • Represented heirs of Boris Karloff in landmark litigation against Universal Studios.
  • Represented co-financier of the hit film “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” in litigation over financial participations filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
  • Successfully represented numerous companies, rights holders and artists in copyright infringement actions including Legendary Pictures, Uproxx Media, Frank Zappa Family Trust, Will.i.am, Rick Ross, Herbie Hancock and the Black Eyes Peas.
  • Co-represented plaintiff private equity firm in a state law antitrust action for the use of secret rebates. Obtained a verdict for the plaintiff after a three-week jury trial.
  • Represented private equity firm in a large-scale litigation arising out of a reverse merger of a group of limited partnerships (real estate assets) valued at $650 million.
  • Defended Hong Kong based technology company in a $65 million action. Achieved a complete dismissal of all claims for his client based on challenge to jurisdiction of California courts.
  • Supervised all aspects of large unfair competition/trade libel action, including obtaining TRO and preliminary injunction and defeating nine motions for summary judgment on behalf of publicly traded company.
  • Represented Brighton Collectibles in multiple federal court proceedings involving trade dress and copyright claims and obtained a permanent injunction prohibiting the sale and distribution of infringing fashion accessories.
  • Represented super-agent Ed Limato in dispute over employment agreement with a leading talent agency which resulted in a complete voiding of the agreement under the 7-year rule.

 

Professional Affiliation

  • Best Lawyers, U.S. News and World Report
  • Top 50 Litigators in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Business Journal
  • Super Lawyer, Los Angeles Magazine/Law + Politics, 2008—2019
  • AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell
  • Fellow, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society of the Litigation Counsel of America

Professional Membership

  • Association of Business Trial Lawyers
  • Co-Chair of the Entertainment Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association
  • Entertainment and Intellectual Property Section of the Los Angeles Bar Association
  • Litigation Counsel of America

Miles’ charitable endeavors have included serving as legal counsel to the Board of Directors of Rock the Vote Educational Fund, a well-known non-profit organization dedicated to increasing political participation, and as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Surfing Lawyers (ASL). Miles is also active in the Surfrider Foundation and is a member of Heal the Bay.

Publications, Recognitions and Speaking Engagements

  • Miles has appeared on television on the following networks as a legal expert: Bloomberg, E!, Web Pro News, and on NPR radio.
  • Miles is a co-author of the Entertainment Litigation legal treatise (Oxford Press 2011 Right of Privacy chapter); co-author of the leading multi-volume legal treatise and practice guide, California Business Litigation CEB 2002, Copyrights, Rights of Publicity; co-author of Copy Caveats, Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine (May, 2010); co-author of Anti-Paparazzi Law Sports Bigger Bite, Los Angeles Daily Journal (January, 2010); co-author of Copyright Grants: as Powerful as Kryptonite? Los Angeles Daily Journal (September, 2009); co-author of License to Shill, Los Angeles Daily Journal (March, 2009); and author of Except the Inevitable: A Court Balances Trade Secret Disclosure Interests, Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal (March, 1996).
  • Miles is a frequent speaker and panelist including: Lecturer at the University of Southern California Law Center; Speaker, Digital Hollywood / Variety / Entertainment Publicists Professional Society Summit; Panelist and Speaker at the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Annual Entertainment Law Year in Review and numerous other events; Speaker at the California State Bar Annual Conference in San Diego on Intellectual Property.