Joe Bogdan

Joe Bogdan works at the intersection of intellectual property, entertainment and technology industries, providing a broad array of advice in a variety of subject matter disciplines. Joe’s career has involved legal work in all areas of entertainment and arts, intellectual property, and technology industries. He is a serial General Counsel to technology, entertainment and technology/entertainment companies, and he has long been a defender of authors’ rights to their intellectual property (for example, having protected the intellectual property rights of musicians who have sold over one billion records and earned more than ten Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions). The value he provides to clients also includes his significant business-side experience, with a combined 15 years as a business affairs executive and a chief operating officer of the companies for which he was concurrently General Counsel.

While Joe’s legal career began in IP licensing, and the cornerstone of his practice has long been licensing, entertainment, and technology-industry transactions, over time he also developed proficiency in corporate, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, compliance, international law, privacy, and commercial real estate. It is in all those areas that he advises clients today.

Joe is admitted to practice in Illinois (active) and California (inactive). He obtained his J.D. from USC Gould School of Law and an M.A. in Communications Technologies from the USC Annenberg School of Communications and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature with a Government Law minor from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also teaches a variety live entertainment, music business, and intellectual property courses at Columbia College Chicago and for the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law’s School of American Law.