BALFUSLAW.com
JONATHAN C. BALFUS, ESQ. ◎ 100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700 ◎ Santa Monica, CA 90401 ◎ 310.883.8803 ◎ jb@balfuslaw.com
ABOUT
Jonathan C. Balfus is a seasoned litigator with an emphasis in complex business and intellectual property. Mr. Balfus has extensive experience handling copyright, trademark, trade secret, and rights of publicity matters all over the country. He has counseled individual, small business and large corporate clients regarding the strategic use and licensing of all forms of intellectual property. In the entertainment field, Mr. Balfus represents clients in the television, radio, recording, merchandising and music publishing industries. For several years, Mr. Balfus represented Clear Channel Communications in a series of successful infringement actions over the expansion of national radio brands in California, New York, Illinois, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Nevada and Texas. More recently, Mr. Balfus has focused on social media, ecommerce and online advertising matters. In his art law practice, Mr. Balfus counsels artists, galleries, collectors and curators in the sale, provenance, attribution, licensing, fabrication and reproduction of art.
Mr. Balfus graduated with honors from New York University’s College of Arts and Sciences and School of Law. While at NYU Law, he clerked for New York Appellate Court Judge Frederick T. Santucci. He is a member of the State Bars of New York and California and is admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts in the Central, Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of California. He is a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Prior to establishing his solo practice Mr. Balfus was a partner with Weiss & Spees, LLP in Los Angeles.
Mr. Balfus’ reported decisions include:
First Team Real Estate v. Lewandowski, 30-2017- 00959242 (OC Sup.Ct. 2024)
Trowbridge Sidoti LLP v. Taylor, 8:16-cv-00771-ODW-SK (D.C. Cal. 2018)
In re Karykeion, Inc., 435 B.R. 663 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 2010)
Rosen v. Franklin Mint Company, 2004 WL 728718
In re Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hosp., 282 B.R. 444 (9th Cir.BAP Cal.) (2002)
Citicasters Licenses, Inc. v. Cumulus Media, Inc., 189 F. Supp.2d 1372 (S.D. Ga. 2002)
PLCM Group v. Drexler, 22 Cal.4th 1084 (2000)
Wilkes v. Rhino Records, Inc., 133 F.3d 931 (9th Cir. 1997)