Max D. Fabricant - Los Angeles, CA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • William and Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2020
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Elon University, 2015
    B.S.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Major: Marketing with Focus in Sales, Leadership Studies

Current Employment Position(s)

• Associate

Representative Cases

• Representation of a high-profile entertainer in a multi-forum dispute involving fraud, corporate-governance misconduct, and misuse of NIL rights. Successfully defeated multiple procedural challenges—including demurrer, motion to quash, forum non conveniens, and motion to disqualify counsel—while prosecuting affirmative claims for financial misconduct and unauthorized exploitation of publicity rights.
• Representation of a prominent businessperson and his commercial entities against an international and AI-powered defamation and extortion ring. Successfully removed hundreds of thousands of false and defamatory articles regarding the clients and secured a favorable settlement and stipulated judgment with numerous once-anonymous wrongdoers after aggressively acting to unveil their true identities in discovery.
• Representation of a music industry mogul and his recording and publishing entities in a 50-million dollar arbitration dispute. Secured a completely absolving interim and final award, defeating the claims and numerous efforts by the opposing counsel to expand the arbitrator’s governing rules and authority.
• Representation of a music-rights administrator in a dispute with a licensing collective concerning unreasonable catalog freezes, unsubstantiated claims of wrongdoing, and royalty-payment delays.
• Secured favorable settlement for a songwriter litigating against top-selling artist and his lead producer who attempted to deny the client credit and owed substantial compensation for his original contributions to a Billboard chart-topping single that had earned millions of dollars in royalties.
• Secured favorable settlement for scripted television writer/producer in private arbitration against a major production company that attempted to avoid its credit and payment obligations to the client.
• Representation of world-renowned model and socialite in numerous intellectual property and publicity rights disputes against photographers and designers involving alleged copyright and trademark infringements and the client’s purported uses of images featuring her own likeness.
• Representation of high-net-worth tenants in residential property litigation involving liability for fire damage arising out of the 2025 Palisades fires, wrongful withholding of a substantial security deposit, and unlawful “self-help” statutory violations.
• Successfully handled thousands of takedowns, registrar-level actions, and pre-litigation resolutions involving domain misappropriation, false and defamatory articles, and unauthorized NIL uses.

Bar Admissions

• California, 2021
• Tennessee, 2021

Other Affiliations

• Los Angeles County Bar Association, 2022 - Present
• Beverly Hills Bar Association, 2022 - Present