Justin E. Klein

Practices:	Intellectual Property Litigation & Dispute Resolution Media Law Sports Law
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Experience:

Justin E. Klein is a partner of Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP and he is the head of the firm’s sports law practice.  Mr. Klein concentrates his practice in commercial litigation, intellectual property law, media law, and sports law. 

Mr. Klein has significant experience in both pursuing and defending civil claims for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18. U.S.C. § 1030, and the Stored Wire and Electronic Communications and Transaction Records Access Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2701, and has collaborated with federal law enforcement in investigating computer related claims on behalf of his clients.

Mr. Klein is admitted to practice in New York, before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Second Circuit, Fourth Circuit and Ninth Circuit, and before the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Mr. Klein is a member of the Committee on Sports Law, New York City Bar, the Sports Lawyers Association, the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Klein is also licensed by the New York State Athletic Commission as a boxing manager.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Klein was an associate in the litigation department at Fried Frank in New York. Mr. Klein also clerked for the Honorable Mary Ellen Coster Williams of the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Klein has received recognition for his pro bono service, including the Legal Aid Society Award in Recognition of Outstanding Pro Bono Service.

Mr. Klein is founder and Chairman of the Board of the New York Mixed Martial Arts Initiative, a non-profit organization that provides funding for youth and young adults in New York so that they can experience the benefits of martial arts training which include increased self discipline, self confidence, self respect, good sportsmanship, and healthy lifestyle habits.  Currently, the NYMMAI is supporting an after-school self defense program at a public high school in East Harlem.

Decisions of Interest: 

Ipreo Holdings LLC v. Thomson Reuters Corp., Reuters America LLC et al., 2011 WL 855872 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 8, 2011)

Dillon v. West Publishing Corporation et al., 2011 WL 148823 (9th Cir. January 18, 2011)

Triano v. Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc., 2010 WL 3932334, (S.D.N.Y. September 29, 2010), appeal dismissed, (2d Cir. Dec. 1, 2010)

Christen v. Iparadigms, LLC, No. 10-620, 2010 WL 3063137 (E.D.Va. Aug. 4, 2010)

Industrial Quick Search, Inc., et al. v. Terryn, 2010 WL 481057 (Mich. Ct. App. Feb. 11, 2010) appeal denied, 2010 WL 2795386 (Mich. July 15, 2010)

A.V. ex rel. Vanderhye v. iParadigms, LLC, 562 F.3d 630 (4th Cir. 2009)

Hypergraphics Press, Inc. v. Cengage Learning, Inc., Slip Copy, 2009 WL 972823 (N.D. Ill. 2009)

A.V. v. iParadigms, LLC, 544 F.Supp.2d 473 (E.D. Va. 2008)

Brandt v. MIT Development Corp., 552 F.Supp.2d 304 (D. Conn. 2008)

MMZ Associates, Inc. v. Gelco Corp., Slip Copy, 2006 WL 3531429 (S.D.N.Y. 2006)

Publications:

Court Dismisses Libel Claim Over Erroneous Newspaper Headline:  Headline Should Not Be Read In Isolation, Media Law Resource Center, Media Law Letter, October 2010.

Fourth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Plagiarism Detection Service: Digital Database a Fair Use; Important Implications For New Media, Media Law Resource Center, Media Law Letter, May 2009.

A History Lesson (or History’s Lesson) on Mixed Martial Arts in New York, MMAPayout: The Business of MMA, November 17, 2010.

Zuffa’s Piracy Fight– Winning The Battle, But Can It Win The War?, MMAPayout: The Business of MMA, November 10, 2010.

Mr. Klein regularly addresses current legal issues that pertain to MMA and boxing, including efforts to legalize MMA in New York, at his Fight Lawyer website and is a weekly contributor to MMAPayout: The Business of MMA. In addition, Mr. Klein’s website was featured on Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch and has been cited by a number of MMA and boxing media outlets.

Speaking Engagements:

Moderator of panel at the 2011 MMA World Expo at the Jacob Javits Center on mixed martial arts safety and regulatory issues and legalization in New York—panelists included, Nicholas Lembo, Deputy Attorney General for New Jersey and Counsel to the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, Dr. Sheryl Wulkan, selected as the Ringside Physician of the Year by the American Association of Professional Ringside Physicians, lead MMA/Muay Thai physician for the NJ State Athletic Control Board and a licensed ringside physician with the New York Athletic Commissionin, Jim Genia, author of “Raw Combat” and expert on underground, unregulated fight scene in New York.

Guest on ESPN Radio’s Gross Point Blank to discuss the mixed martial arts ban in New York and legislative efforts to lift the ban.

Guest on SiriusXM Radio to discuss the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the ban on mixed martial arts in New York.

Guest on MMA Nation on CBS Sports Radio, 106.7 The Fan.

Guest on Hot97 Street Soldiers with FOX 5 New York’s Lisa Evers for a roundtable discussion on mixed martial arts in New York.

Featured in a 2010 Wall Street Journal video, New York Not Yet Ready for Mixed Martial Arts.

Panelist at the 2010 MMA World Expo at the Jacob Javits Center on the “Past, Present, and Future of Mixed Martial Arts.”

Guest on “Right Hook Radio,” the official radio show for the New York State Young Republicans.

Featured in a 2011 segment on mixed martial arts in New York on Brooklyn Independent Television’s “Brooklyn Review.”

Guest on MMAJunkie Radio.

Guest on TapouT Radio Live.

Education:

Mr. Klein received his undergraduate degree (B.A.) from the University of Michigan, where he was a James B. Angell Scholar, a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, and a member of Sigma Iota Rho. Mr. Klein received his law degree (J.D.) from Fordham University School of Law, where he received Dean’s List Honors.