Rick Kurnit is retired from the firm. During his long career, he was internationally recognized in the advertising and marketing services and publishing industries.
Rick Kurnit was the only lawyer named to Adweek’s Top 50 Executives Who Make the Wheels Turn list. Selected by Best Lawyers as its first New York Media Lawyer of the Year and 2018 Copyright Lawyer of the Year, he was recognized annually in its survey in six fields: Advertising, Copyright, Entertainment, Intellectual Property Litigation, Media, and Trademark and was again listed as a "Lawyer of the Year" for 2018 in Copyright. Rick was ranked by Chambers USA as a star in Advertising law, as a “Leading Lawyer” and “Hall of Famer” in Marketing and Advertising by The Legal 500, a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers magazine in advertising, and a Leading IP Lawyer by Lawyer Monthly Magazine.
For many years, Rick was the chair of the firm’s Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations Group. He was a founding Vice Chair of the ABA Committee on Private Advertising Litigation. He handled many of the leading cases defining the application of intellectual property law to advertising and marketing communications, including repres...