Attorney Richard Liebowitz, who passed the bar in 2015, started filing copyright cases in 2017. Since then, has become one of the most frequently sanctioned lawyers, if not the most frequently sanctioned lawyer, in the the Southern District of New York. Liebowitz, who is the undisputed king of mass copyright litigation, received a fine $8,745 and a dubious distinction from federal court judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York.
The judge stated, attorney Richard Liebowitz, “has earned the dubious distinction of being a regular target of sanctions-related motions and orders.
He has been called “a copyright troll,” McDermott v. Monday Monday, LLC (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 26, 2018); “a clear and present danger to the fair and efficient administration of justice,” Mondragon v. Nosrak LLC (D. Colo. May 11, 2020); a “legal lamprey[],” Ward v. Consequence Holdings, Inc. (S.D. Ill. May 7, 2020); and an “example of the worst kind of lawyering,”.
Just recently, Judge Jesse Furman decided in Usherson v. Bandshell Artists Mgmt. (S.D.N.Y.) that Mr. Liebowitz must pay, among other fines… “$83,517.49 in fees and costs attributable to the mediation and the sanctions motion” “for misrepresenting that the Mediator gave permission for Mr. Usherson not to attend the mediation in person and for his multiple other violations of the Court’s Orders,”
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