Max Fabricant

Associate

Max Fabricant assists clients in complex commercial disputes, particularly those arising in the entertainment and media industry. Max has experience handling matters involving reputational, intellectual property (IP), contractual, and employment issues, drawing on his keen understanding of the agreements and relationships that often shape these disputes. He has also worked on matters involving publishing arrangements, recording agreements, synchronization licenses, album clearances, and royalty terms, giving him insight into both the legal and business considerations that can arise in entertainment matters. Max has successfully handled registrar-level actions, and pre-litigation resolutions involving domain misappropriation, false and defamatory articles, and unauthorized NIL uses.

Experience

Representative Matters

  • Represented a high-profile entertainer in a multi-forum dispute involving fraud, corporate governance misconduct, and misuse of NIL rights. Successfully defeated multiple procedural challenges—including demurrer, motion to quash, forum non conveniens, and motion to disqualify counsel—while prosecuting affirmative claims for financial misconduct and unauthorized exploitation of publicity rights
  • Represented a prominent businessperson and his commercial entities against an international and AI-powered defamation and extortion ring. Successfully removed hundreds of thousands of false and defamatory articles regarding the clients and secured a favorable settlement and stipulated judgment with numerous once-anonymous wrongdoers after aggressively acting to unveil their true identities in discovery
  • Represented a music industry mogul and his recording and publishing entities in a $50 million arbitration dispute. Secured a completely absolving interim and final award, defeating the claims and numerous efforts by the opposing counsel to expand the arbitrator’s governing rules and authority
  • Represented a music rights administrator in a dispute with a licensing collective concerning unreasonable catalog freezes, unsubstantiated claims of wrongdoing, and royalty-payment delays. Secured a favorable settlement for a songwriter litigating against a top-selling artist and his lead producer, who attempted to deny the client credit and owed substantial compensation for his original contributions to a Billboard chart-topping single that had earned millions of dollars in royalties
  • Secured a favorable settlement for a scripted television writer/producer in a private arbitration against a major production company that attempted to avoid its credit and payment obligations to the client
  • Represented a world-renowned model and socialite in numerous intellectual property and publicity rights disputes against photographers and designers involving alleged copyright and trademark infringements and the client’s purported use of images featuring her own likeness
  • Represented high-net-worth tenants in residential property litigation involving liability for fire damage arising out of the 2025 Palisades fires, wrongful withholding of a substantial security deposit, and unlawful "self-help" statutory violations

Credentials
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Education

  • J.D. William & Mary School of Law 2020
    • Concentration: Intellectual Property
  • B.S. Marketing and Leadership Studies magna cum laude Elon University 2015

Bar Admissions

  • California
  • Tennessee

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Professional Memberships and Activities

  • Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • Member, Beverly Hills Bar Association
  • Deputy editor, ABA Communications Lawyer

Recognition
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  • Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Southern California, 2025 – 2027