Edward Klaris

Edward Klaris is the Managing Partner of Klaris Law PLLC, a media and intellectual property law firm, and he is C.E.O. of KlarisIP LLC, a consulting and managed services firm specializing in intellectual property rights & royalty management, digital asset management and master data management. Ed has been an adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School since 2005 where he teaches media and intellectual property law. Ed serves on the Communications Committee of Human Rights Watch and is a member of the Communications Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

For more than eight years, Ed was Senior Vice President of Intellectual Property Assets & Rights at Condé Nast, where he led a group of about 50 people managing and monetizing all of the company’s media assets worldwide. Ed was General Counsel of The New Yorker for more than six years; he was Media Counsel at ABC, Inc.; and he started his career defending media and entertainment companies against libel, privacy, newsgathering, copyright, and other claims in courts around the country. Ed was the Chair of the Communications Law Committee of the NY State Bar, and was Chairman of the Board of Pilobolus Dance Theater for thirteen years.