Jonathan Blaufarb is the Founding Partner of the San Francisco law firm Counsel LLP. His law practice includes advising major recording and performing artists and celebrities, songwriters, producers, record labels, digital music and technology companies, concert promoters, gaming companies, mobile firms, merchandising companies, film and television talent, and authors. Jon was formerly the Managing Partner of the San Francisco office of Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP, a national music law firm with other offices in New York and Beverly Hills. Before that he was a partner in the Beverly Hills entertainment law firm of Bloom, Hergott, Diemer & Cook. His background also includes complex business and entertainment litigation with Rogers & Wells and Wyman, Bautzer, as well as music transactions as in-house counsel for Sony Music, personal management of recording artists, record retail operations, and performing and recording as a professional musician. Jon is also a principal of the social gaming company Enthusiast Entertainment, music navigation platform TunesMap, gaming and texting platform MogoTxt/MogoBall, and iPhone app development company iPhactory, and a partner in The Network Group, a consulting and connectivity organization bridging Silicon Valley and the entertainment worlds.

DAVID M. GIVEN is a founding partner of Phillips, Erlewine & Given LLP, with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has served as counsel in the copyright infringement case against AVRIL LAVIGNE; in the dispute among members of DEAD KENNEDYS; and in the battle over the right to use the name THE DOOBIE BROTHERS. David has also counseled clients on a range of transactional matters, including on such issues as digital rights management and licensing, digital distribution of entertainment-related content, and international copyright law. David graduated from Cornell University and obtained his law degree from the University of Virginia. He is licensed to practice law in the States of New York and California.