Law Offices of Steven Kurtz

Education:
Dartmouth College, B.A. 1984 (cum laude)
Duke University Law School, J.D. 1987

As a transactional attorney, Steve has represented artists, booking agencies, writers, managers, and record companies, in a variety of areas, including the negotiation of recording, distribution, publishing, administration, domestic and foreign licensing, synchronization and production agreements with such major recording and publishing labels as Warner Bros., Blue Note, Sony, Epic, PolyGram, Virgin, EMI, RCA, Arista, Elektra, Atlantic; as well as negotiating personal appearance contracts, personal management contracts, theatrical and book publishing contracts.

Since 2003, Steve has served as general counsel to the Good Home Co. which sells over $4M per year of its wholesome and uniquely scented products such as laundry sheets, laundry beads and hand soap in over 1,000 stores nationwide. This dynamic company was founded in 1995 by Christine Dimmick (who is also personally managed by Steve).

Experienced before all courts in New York and having handled numerous Intellectual Property, Federal Copyright Act, Trademark and Lanham Act litigations, Steve has recently obtained successful results in litigation matters against companies such as TVT Records, Restoration Hardware, Marvel Entertainment, and Anheuser-Busch.