Cozen O’Connor member Justin B. Wineburgh recently participated in Drexel University College of Law’s Inaugural Career Symposium. He served as a panelist during the program, speaking on the development of his practice as an entertainment lawyer, as well as the current scope of his cases and clients. He also advised students on how to best prepare for and find a job in the entertainment industry.
Wineburgh, co-chair of the firm’s sports and entertainment practice group, counsels clients in the entertainment industry in the U.S. and abroad. He represents clients in the film, television, music, new media and sports industries in complex tort, commercial, defamation, privacy, corporate, employment and intellectual property matters. Wineburgh has represented talent, writers, distributors, retailers, managers, agents, producers, music engineers, production companies and artists in a variety of matters, including litigation, contract negotiations, transactional matters and pre-litigation counseling, and has also served as production counsel for a number of films.
Wineburgh is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey. He has also been specially admitted to handle cases in New York, California, Illinois, Virginia, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michigan and the District of Columbia, as well as before the California Labor Commission.
Wineburgh is a member of the American, Pennsylvania (Sports and Entertainment Law Committee) and Florida Bar Associations, the sports and entertainment law section of The Florida Bar, the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Philadelphia VIP and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. He is also a member of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A., as well as a member of the advisory board of the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel. He is active in numerous civic organizations, serves as a mentor to law students and newly admitted attorneys, and regularly handles pro bono matters for a variety of organizations.
Wineburgh has been selected as a Pennsylvania "Lawyer on the Fast Track" by American Lawyer Media and was also selected as a Widener University School of Law Alumni Spotlight Honoree, an award given to four alumni of the law school each year. In addition, in 2007 Wineburgh was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer by Law and Politics, based on a survey mailed to more than 36,000 attorneys, and was ranked in the top 5% of Pennsylvania attorneys.
Wineburgh earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College (B.A., 1994). He earned his law degree from Widener University School of Law (J.D., 1997), where he was editor/administrative board member of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and a member of Phi Delta Phi, Harrington Inn, Honor Chapter. He served as a judicial intern to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and as a law clerk for the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.