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Leonard W. Wagman was formerly a senior partner with the law firm of Golenbock and Barell. Mr. Wagman has 45 years of litigation experience in many areas of corporate, commercial real estate and labor law. He has represented corporate and individual defendants in civil and criminal antitrust and price fixing cases. Mr. Wagman also has participated in litigation involving the valuation of corporations and shareholders' interests. His entertainment industry litigation experience has included actions involving the production, financing and distribution of motion pictures. He successfully represented the plaintiffs in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Price and Harmon v. Roach, one of the first cases recognizing a commercial right of publicity. He also represented a significant motion picture producer and distributor in the California federal and state courts in protecting and upholding the client's distribution and profit participation rights in a well-known film, and in a second case arising from the sale of the client's television production subsidiary. In the field of labor law Mr. Wagman has represented the management of publicly held and private businesses, in a variety of industries, in collective bargaining negotiations, arbitrations, proceedings at the National Labor Relations Board, National Mediation Board and in the courts. Mr. Wagman is admitted to practice law in the state of New York, and before numerous federal courts. He has argued appeals in the respective United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Sixth and Ninth Circuits. Mr. Wagman is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association and the New York Bar Association. He has served as an arbitrator at the American Arbitration Association and has been an arbitrator in the Small Claims Part of the Civil Court of the City of New York. Mr. Wagman is a graduate of Columbia Law School.