Steven Karic is an AV-rated business litigator and trial lawyer who pragmatically helps clients resolve disputes in a variety of business settings.  He has successfully prosecuted and defended both complex and straightforward lawsuits and arbitrations concerning entertainment (television, motion pictures, and music), real estate, construction, securities, intellectual property, contracts, employment, fraud, unfair business practices and competition, and corporate and partnership disputes.  Mr. Karic regularly appears before state and federal trial and appellate courts in California and elsewhere, as well as various alternative dispute resolution tribunals, such as the American Arbitration Association, JAMS and Judicate West.  He has also appeared before a variety of state, federal and self-regulatory bodies, including FINRA (formerly, NASD), the  Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild of America, the California Department of Labor, and various state insurance departments.  Mr. Karic was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1982 and the California Bar in 1985.  He is licensed to practice law before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California, and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  He has also appeared pro hac vice in the United States District Court for numerous additional districts, including the Southern District of New York, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Eastern and Middle Districts of Virginia.  Before joining Hamburg, Karic, Edwards & Martin LLP, he was a partner and member of the board of disrectors of the national law firm of Buchalter, Nemer in Los Angeles.  Mr. Karic was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1954, received his B.A., with honors, from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1977, and his J.D., cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 1982, where he served as a member and editor of the Tulane Law Review.  While a member of the Tulane Law Review, he published the Note, Admiralty-Procedure for Maritime Acton in Rem Found Unconstitutional, 55 Tulane Law Review 936 (1981).