Robert M. (“Bobby”) Schwartz is a partner in O’Melveny’s Century City office and a nationally recognized leader in both entertainment and business litigation. As Chair of the Entertainment and Media Litigation Practice and a member of the Business Trial and Litigation Practice, he has garnered acclaim from the Best Lawyers in America, Chambers, Super Lawyers, and Lawdragon guides. The Daily Journal has called Bobby one of California’s “Top 75 Intellectual Property Lawyers.” For each of the past five years The Hollywood Reporter has saluted him as a “Top 100 Power Lawyer.” He is the author of four chapters in the 2011 Oxford University Press treatise Entertainment Litigation and the 2014 revision, Entertainment Law & Litigation: COPYRIGHT (direct infringement), COPYRIGHT (secondary liability), LAW OF IDEAS/CONTRACTS/CREDIT, and TRADEMARK & UNFAIR COMPETITION. In his twenty-nine years at the firm, he has successfully represented some of the Fortune 500’s and the entertainment industry’s most influential companies in matters of far-reaching significance.

Class and representative actions
Complex commercial disputes
Copyright, trademark, trade dress, and antipiracy
Corporate governance and internal investigations
Defamation, right of privacy and publicity
First Amendment
Governmental investigations and regulatory proceedings (including FTC, DOJ, public utility commissions, and bank regulatory agencies)
Media/content creation, promotion, distribution, and exhibition, including film, television, music and video games
Patents and trade secrets
Personal service contracts
Unfair competition and false advertising, including Lanham Act and California Business & Professions Code sections 17200 & 17500