Harold Flegelman

Harold Flegelman was a co-author of the proposal that created the Graduate Program in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law at the University of Miami School of Law in 2015. He served as the founding Director of the Program and the Program’s Entertainment Track, and as a Lecturer in Law.

Before joining UM, Mr. Flegelman was a partner in the Corporate Department in the Los Angeles office of Loeb & Loeb LLP, and a Co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Media and Entertainment Practice Group. Loeb & Loeb’s motion picture, television, music and sports practices are regularly recognized by U.S. News and World Report as being among the “Best Law Firms.” Prior to that, he was a law partner of now-Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in the New York City office of Pavia & Harcourt LLP.

While in private practice, Flegelman was engaged principally in advising clients in all legal and business aspects of the entertainment and media industries, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments, business planning and executive employment agreements. Among his many illustrative transactions, he represented (i) purchasers and sellers of record companies, music management companies, music publishing catalogues, and talent and advertising agencies; (ii) motion picture producers and directors in both the raising of equity capital for film funds and the purchase and sale of motion picture libraries; and (iii) companies engaged in sports transactions.

Flegelman received his BA, cum laude, from Yale University in 1975, and his JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978, where he was an Associate Editor of The Tax Lawyer.