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Creating Games & Simulation for Learning |
Speaker Profile
Richard Thompson Richard Thompson was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and attended Harvard College, where he graduated with an A.B. in 1977, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. From there he entered Stanford Law School where he received a J.D. in 1980 and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. From 1980 to 1983 he was an associate at the firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman where he practiced transactional entertainment law, litigation and real estate law. From 1983 through 1988 he was an associate and later a partner, practicing transactional entertainment law at the firm of Silverberg, Rosen, Leon & Behr. Upon dissolution of that firm at the end of 1988, he became a founding partner of Silverberg, Katz, Thompson & Braun where he stayed until March 1995. From 1995 through May 2000, he was a partner in the firm of Bloom, Hergott, Diemer & Cook, one of the leading motion picture entertainment law firms in Los Angeles. From May 2000 until December 2001, he was first Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and General Counsel and then later promoted to Chief Operating Officer of The Brodia Group, which developed and licensed a consumer payments platform that facilitated secure online payments for the customers of major credit card companies. He has now returned to his practice with Bloom, Hergott. Beginning in 1989 he began to focus a significant part of his practice in the new media area, initially representing developers and publishers of multimedia CD-ROM products as well as designers, writers, programmers, producers and other individual talent. As the internet became a significant commercial medium, his new media practice shifted to clients focused on internet businesses and included web site designers, developers and publishers of online games and other forms of online entertainment, and a wide variety of other internet and wireless businesses. He has also continued to represent talent and corporate clients in motion pictures, television, home video and licensing. He has spoken extensively regarding legal issues in the new media business at, among other places, USC, UCLA, the Practicing Law Institute and the Los Angeles Copyright Society. He is a past president of the Los Angeles Copyright Society.
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