Richard J. Greenstone practices copyright, trademark, licensing, and transactional law for the computer, entertainment, and publishing industries in San Francisco representing multimedia and online media companies, software, book and magazine publishers, programmers, authors, actors, artists, and producers throughout California, the United States, and the world. Richard Greenstone has over twenty nine years of legal experience in these industries and substantive law areas.

Richard Greenstone is a member of the California state bar, admitted to several United States District Courts, and is an elected member of the Los Angeles Copyright Society. Richard Greenstone practices before the United States Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in trademark matters. He has well over five hundred trademark applications and registrations to his credit performed for both clients and other attorneys who seek his advice. Richard has recently opened and is now developing a website, Trademarks All The Time, exclusively devoted to trademarks law, branding, registration, infringements, and trademark portfolio management.

Richard Greenstone also has an active entertainment law practice representing producers in the motion picture, television and music industries. He currently acts as production attorney for the television show One On One and represents the producer for the internet game show Starlicious.

Richard Greenstone actively participates in the American Bar Association. He currently produces the program Young Lawyer and Law Student Orientation: Your Questions Answered for the American Bar Association's Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. This year's Forum Annual Meeting will take place in Las Vegas October 7 - 9, 2010. Richard served on the governing committee of the Forum and was also Division Chair for the Visual Arts Division, Publications Chair, and editor-in-chief of the Forum's law journal Entertainment and Sports Lawyer. Richard Greenstone also served as Forum liaison to the American Bar Association's Technology Counsel and was a member of the Standing Committee on Strategic Communications.

Richard Greenstone has authored over twenty articles on copyright, trademark, computer, entertainment, and licensing law, and has authored software on copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.) and the sale of fine prints (California Civil Code §§ 1740 - 1745.5). Richard Greenstone served on the advisory board and wrote a monthly column for Aspen Law and Business' magazine The Licensing Journal. Richard Greenstone also publishes Law Bytes. Currently in Law Bytes is an article by Richard Greenstone and Alexander Lai on Section 2257 record keeping requirements for adult entertainment producers.

In 2005 and 2006 Richard Greenstone lectured on music industry relationships and compensation at the Haas School of Business, University of California, and on record keeping requirements for the adult entertainment industry, also known as s requirements. He has also produced a compilation record album for the Chicago Dental Society's annual mid-winter meeting, negotiated a book publishing contract for Cary Nasatir's Praise and Worship Drumming and acted as production attorney for the television show One On One. Richard Greenstone also wrote a book review of "Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays on the Bronx Bombers" in 22 Entertainment & Sports Lawyer No. 1, Spring 2004. Richard Greenstone's latest article is a book review of "Art, Artifact & Architecture Law" by Jessica L. Darraby in 25 Entertainment & Sports Lawyer No. 1, Spring 2007.

In January 2009, Richard Greenstone lectured on trademark registration practice at the Golden Gate University School of Law Beat the Clock 2009 MCLE course. In 2009 Richard Greenstone counseled animation students for the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. 2010 has seen the continued expansion of his practice including the trademark only website Trademarks All The Time. Check it out!

Richard Greenstone is an avid photographer; his pictures appear on this website. In October and November 2010 Richard Greenstone will show his work in a solo art show at Zindagi in San Francisco. More information on the show will be published shortly. While all of Richard Greenstone's photographs are original and created with great care, what you will not see on this website are pictures of models—like on large law firm web sites—acting as if they were attorneys. Our firm is the real thing with real vision and real legal experience and no stock photos!

Dry Standpipe by Richard Greenstone, 2004