Ben Feldman, Esq.
Of Counsel

Ben Feldman is affiliated with the firm, and focuses his practice in matters concerning theatre and independent film.  Mr. Feldman also provides counsel in the areas of art, book publishing, and television.  His varied clientele consists of film and theater producers (including film production companies and regional theaters), network sitcom television leads, Manhattan art galleries, publicists, New York stage venue owners, major motion picture distributors, talent agencies, writers, and even the puppet designers and builders of the one of the most popular stage musicals of recent memory.  He has secured the film rights for stories appearing in publications ranging from The New York Times to Vanity Fair and the live musical stage rights to numerous novels and popular films.  He has completed book deals with major publishing houses and has acted as production counsel on a number of independent films, including two that have received national theatrical release since 2004.  Also in his film practice, he represented more documentaries at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival than any other attorney, and as a producer rep he sold one, in an unprecedented deal, to a national broadcast network for prime time exhibition.  He subsequently sold two additional films at the Tribeca Festival later that same year, in the Spring of 2004, and will represent four movies as both production counsel and producer rep at that festival in 2006.  Ben represents two Oscar nominated director-producers and a third whose work was acknowledged with the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Mr. Feldman’s work as a theatrical attorney has been acknowledged twice in this century, more than any other attorney.  His clients have been recognized in such categories as best Play Revival (producer), Best Actress in a Play, Best Orchestrations, Best Score, and Best Book of a Musical.  He has represented either the producers or authors of at least one winner of major New York theatrical Festivals (Fringe, NYMTF or NAMT) during each of the last five years.  All of these productions have moved on to Broadway or off.

In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Feldman also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hourglass Group and of the New Festival Inc., sponsor of the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. As a producer himself, Mr. Feldman has presented The Cutting Room, a short film featuring Kate Hudson, and the commercial run of The Stand In, a play developed by Naked Angels and later optioned by Miramax.  Finally, Ben is also a writer whose work has been produced at the LaJolla Playhouse.  He was commissioned by major film studios to write the librettos of two musicals to be based on major motion pictures.

Mr. Feldman became affiliated with Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP, in 2002. Formerly, he was affiliated with the law firms of Parker, Chapin, Flattau & Klimpl, LLP, and Kaufmann, Feiner, Yamin, Gildin & Robbins, LLP.  Mr. Feldman was admitted to the New York Bar in 1999. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he won the ASCAP Copyright Law Prize and the school’s Moot Court Oral Argument Competition.  He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Yale College.