Prior to joining McLaughlin & Stern in 2001, David Blasband had been a member of Deutsch Klagsbrun & Blasband and its predecessor, with whom he practiced law since 1963. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Mr. Blasband specializes in the areas of intellectual property, copyright, trademark, publishing, entertainment law and First Amendment issues. He has successfully litigated major lawsuits in those fields, representing the prevailing parties in leading cases
such as:

• Peggy Lee v. Disney, Case No. C705414 (Sup. Ct. L.A. Co. 1991);
• Steve Wynn v. Lyle Stuart, 16 P 3d 424 (2001);
• T.B. Harms Company v. Eliscu, 339 F.2d 823 (2d Cir. 1964);
• Childress v. Taylor, 945 F.2d 500 (2d Cir. 1991);
• Eisen v. Houghton Mifflin, Tolkien et al., 794 F. Supp. 85 (S.D.N.Y. 1992), aff’d, 990 F.2d 623 (2d Cir. 1993);
• Hospital for Sick Children v. Melody Fare Dinner Theater, 516 F. Supp. 67 (E.D. Va. 1980);
• Harcourt Brace & World v. Graphic Controls Corporation, 329 F. Supp. 517 (S.D.N.Y. 1971);
• Woods v. Bourne Co., 841 F. Supp 118 (S.D.N.Y. 1994);
• Hearn v. Meyer, 664 F. Supp. 832 (S.D.N.Y. 1987);
• Southeast Bank, N.A. as Personal Representative of the Estate of Tennessee
• Williams v. Lawrence, 66 N.Y.2d 910, 498 N.Y.S.2d 775 (1985);
• Branch v. Ogilvy & Mather, 772 F. Supp. 1359 (S.D.N.Y. 1991);
• Locke v. Times Mirror, 1985 Copyright L. Dec. (CCH) ¶25,750 9S.D.N.Y. 1990), 772 F. Supp. 1359 (S.D.N.Y. 1991);
• Salamone v. Macmillan, 77 A.D.2d 501 (1980);
• Margo v. Weiss, 213 F.3d 55 (2d Cir. 2000)

Mr. Blasband has also litigated employment discrimination, antitrust and commercial cases, and prevailed on behalf of members of the New York State Board of Regents, whom he represented in the Buffalo, New York, school desegregation case, Arthur v. Nyquist, 573 F.2d 134 (2d Cir. 1978).

He is a member of the board of directors of the Trisha Brown Dance Company and the Hebrew Hospital Home, of which he is general counsel. He lectures on copyright law at the Cardozo School of Law and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Blasband resides in New York City with his wife, Francie Alexander. His daughter Katherine attends Northwestern University.