Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP

12/06/2021

JASON ZELIN JOINS RIAG
Rufus-Isaacs Acland & Grantham LLP is delighted to announce that Jason Zelin has accepted an invitation to become Of Counsel to the firm. Jason has extensive experience in many facets of the entertainment industry, from both legal and business perspectives. In addition to working at private law firms, he has worked inhouse for Warner Bros. Television, Lorimar Entertainment, The Completion Bond Company, Village Roadshow Pictures, Miramax Films and others.
Jason has negotiated talent deals, network licensing agreements, literary acquisitions as well as scripted and unscripted television development and production. Working outside film studios, he bonded more than $100 million in budgeted new films, and served as a primary liaison with studios. When working as part of film studios, Jason also gained experience supervising all legal and business aspects of multi-national productions, and as COO of a production company he developed film projects at Paramount and Dreamworks with such notables as Ridley and Tony Scott, Will Smith, and Janet Yang.
RIAG managing partner Alexander Rufus-Isaacs says, “Jason and I have worked together in the past and become good friends. He is a superb lawyer whom I admire and like very much. I could not be happier that he has joined us, and he will be a great asset.”
For more information about Jason, see

Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham LLP is a California law firm with offices in Beverly Hills. Our focus is on litigation, entertainment/media, technology, Internet and e-commerce, general business/commercial and insurance.

07/15/2021

Rufus-Isaacs Acland & Grantham LLP is delighted to announce that Holly Browde has joined the firm as a partner. Holly is a transactional lawyer specializing in all facets of the music business. She was V.P., Music Business and Legal Affairs at the Walt Disney Company and has a broad and varied experience of the industry, having worked at Polygram Records, the Left Bank Organization (artist management), Polygram Music Publishing, Tonos Entertainment, Inc. (digital startup) and in private practice. She has a keen awareness of operational realities and practical issues and is exceptionally skilled at prioritizing her clients’ needs.
Holly was admitted to practice law in New York since 1981 and is also admitted in California under the provisional licensure program.
For specific details of Holly’s expertise, please see

Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham LLP is a California law firm with offices in Beverly Hills. Our focus is on litigation, entertainment/media, technology, Internet and e-commerce, general business/commercial and insurance.

06/08/2021

The webinar moderated by Alexander Rufus-Isaacs on May 25 about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, is now up on the Beverly Hills Bar Assn's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cvhy5jFcGU - Section 230 immunizes platforms from liability for content provided by others. Without it, Facebook, Google, Yelp and other social media and review sites could not exist. But it has also created huge problems for victims of cyber harassment and others. The webinar consists of a quick history of Section 230 by Jeff Kosseff followed by a lively discussion about possible reforms by our panel of nationally recognized experts. We hope you find it interesting.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has been described as 26 words that created the Internet. Now that we have the Internet, not everyone is convin...

02/07/2019

Congratulations to Alexander Rufus-Isaacs on his selection to the 2019 Southern California Super Lawyers list in the Entertainment and Sports category!
Our firm, Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP, has also been selected for several 2019 media litigation awards including M&A Today's Media Sector Litigation Law Firm of the Year - California, US, Corporate Intl Global Awards' Media Sector Litigation Law Firm of the Year in California and Global Law Experts Media Sector Litigation Law Firm of the Year.

07/02/2018

RIAG's Alexander Rufus-Isaacs has been recognized as one of So Cal’s “Super Lawyers” for 2018 in Media Law.

06/06/2018

RIAG is pleased and proud to have received several awards this year for its media litigation practice.
CorporateINTL's Media Sector Litigation Law Firm of the Year in California, US
AI's Best Entertainment & Media Law Firm 2018 - California
International Advisory Experts' Media Litigation award winner within California
Corporate LiveWire's Media Sector Litigation Law Firm of the Year - California

07/22/2015

Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP’s Paul D. Supnik will be the speaker at the August 6, 2015 Beverly Hills Bar Association luncheon program “Trademarks 101 – Selection and Protection Basics for the Business Attorney.”
Read more: http://www.rufuslaw.com/2015/07/trademarks-101-at-the-beverly-hills-bar-association-with-speaker-paul-d-supnik-2/

Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham LLP is a California law firm with offices in Beverly Hills. Our focus is on litigation, entertainment/media, technology, Internet and e-commerce, general business/commercial and insurance.

03/20/2015

RIAG partner Bill Grantham’s client Richard Saperstein is producing the remake of ‘The Blob’ with Brian Witten. Read more: http://www.rufuslaw.com/2015/03/from-deadline-com-the-blob-remake/

Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham LLP is a California law firm with offices in Beverly Hills. Our focus is on litigation, entertainment/media, technology, Internet and e-commerce, general business/commercial and insurance.

12/01/2014

The good news: a bill before the lame duck session of Congress would extend the Section 181 federal tax break for certain individual film and television production investments. The bad news: the extension will only run through the end of THIS year. In other words, if you've already made an eligible investment, or if you can start shooting your project this month, then you may qualify. But in what's become an annual ritual, you won't know if your 2015 expenditures qualify until a further extension to the legislation, which on past form won't come, if it comes at all, until this time next year.https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s1859/BILLS-113s1859pcs.pdf

06/24/2014

Will new securities laws allow small investors to make punts on new schemes, including films? They may, eventually, but the writer of this article thinks that's a terrible idea. http://slate.me/1lLChiF. Ask us what we think. http://www.rufuslaw.com.

Bipartisanship is so rare in Congress these days that one hopes every meaningful law passed with even just an ounce of across-the-aisle support is the best gosh-darn law it can be. Unfortunately, that can’t be said about one of the last bipartisan laws of note, the JOBS Act of 2012....