What Kind of Lawyers Do Celebrities Have?

Lawyers usually are among celebrities’ engagement and heritage of legal affairs.

Some key things celebrity lawyers help with include:

- Entertainment contract - Leveraging, brokering and writing contracts for TV/movies roles, sponsorships from brands, licensing deals, book deals among others.

- Intellectual property - Trademarking the star's name and image, registering copyrights, protecting legal rights, preventing others from exploiting the star for personal gain.

- Libel - Overview and examination of the content and words used about celebrities and respond to and prevent false and inaccurate accusations. Drafting cease and desist letters or litigating as situation might arise.

- Privacy protection - Enabling celebrities to exercise and limit the dissemination of private data (e.g. information, photographs etc.) without their consent.

- Defending the celebrity against any lawsuits or legal problems in case he (she) is sued due to the accusation of misconduct, violation of contract terms, etc. Celebrities often hire breach of contract attorney to help them with litigation.

- Estate planning - Writing the last will, creating trusts and taxation strategies to protect the inherited property and assets. Estate planning may also include intangible assets such as intellectual property, music, songs, and movies.

Many major celebrities are represented by lawyers from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios' legal department or smaller celebrity law practices, which only specialize in fame-related issues. The attorneys ordinarily have quite a lot of experience in entertainment and their practices have often touched upon celebrity issues.

What Law Deals with Celebrities?

There is no kind of law that specifies celebrities specifically. However, there are a few key laws and legal areas that commonly apply to celebrities:

- Privacy laws - Celebrities constantly face snoops in their private times, that could be by paparazzi, the media, or other social networks. Celebrities can use privacy laws such as defamation law and right of publicity law which can help individuals battle with unwanted information being released.

- The celebrities have a commercial interest in their names, their images, likenesses, etc. Intellectual property laws like brand trademarks, copyrights, and so forth, help them to take control and make a profit from the use of these properties.

- A contract law - Entertainment contracts which are the basis most of career of celebrities like movie deals, record deals, endorsement deals etc. This law is concerned with terms and enforceability of these agreements.

- Family law—Marriage, divorce, child custody/support recommend the same laws for celebrities as for everybody. Prominent and transparent split up cases are peculiar and can become a constant source of attention among the public for well-known celebrities.

- Tax Law - Celebrities who are financially stable can access a wide range of tax issues such as income taxes, property, investment, estate, gifts, among many others. Owings an obligation to tax planning leads to easier compliance.

In this sense, the fact that there aren't any laws specifically focused on celebrities in the first place, in fact, forces them to deal with a special kind of legal terrain because of their high-profile careers and public lives. Usually, the celebrities employ lawyers who specialize in all those different issues mentioned above.