Practice Groups:


Education:

  • New York University School of Law (J.D.)
  • Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film and TV Department
  • Adjunct professor New York University School of Law

Memberships:

  • New York State Bar Association
  • District of Columbia Bar Association
  • U.S. Supreme Court Bar Association

 

Languages:

  • French
  • Hebrew

MARILYN G. HAFT
Partner
New York

 

(212) 692-5527
mhaft@dsllp.com

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Marilyn Haft chairs the firm’s Entertainment and Digital Media Practice Group.  She specializes in the business and legal affairs of the multimedia and communication industries, including the film, television, digital and publishing sectors, representing companies as well as individuals in those businesses. 

 

Ms. Haft has been a partner at a number of firms and was a test case constitutional law litigator at the national level for six years when she litigated in the State and Federal courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. 

 

Ms. Haft has served as General Counsel and Managing Director of a financial services company that provided short-term funding requirements for major film studios, independent film producers and distributors.  In that capacity, she was responsible for co- creating the financing structure of the transactions.  Ms. Haft was also General Counsel to a publicly traded multimedia and digital acquisitions company, where she was responsible for all aspects relating to acquisitions, including intellectual property issues involving patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrets.

 

Ms. Haft is also an award-winning independent film producer and has worked at NBC News and ABC News as a producer on Peter Jennings’ specials.  She Executive Produced an Emmy award-winning documentary on Preston Sturges for “American Masters” on National Public Television, and co-produced “Grace is Gone,” the John Cusack movie that won the Audience Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.  She also co-produced two 2008 Sundance films, “Diminished Capacity,” starring Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen and Alan Alda, and “Birds of America,” starring and co-produced by Hillary Swank.

 

Ms. Haft served the Carter Administration as Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison in the White House, Deputy Counsel to Vice President Walter Mondale in the White House and as a U.S. Representative to the United Nations. 

 

Ms. Haft is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and is a member of the Bars of New York State, the District of Columbia and the US Supreme Court.

 

 


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