LLB (Manitoba), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario

Casey Chisick is a partner in the Entertainment Law Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. Having worked as a law professor, a jazz promoter and a musician, he offers his clients a rare combination of recognized expertise in copyright law and other intellectual property and first-hand experience in the business of entertainment.

Mr. Chisick's diverse practice spans a number of related areas, including intellectual property, entertainment law,  communications, advertising and marketing and fashion and apparel. He provides transactional advice and litigation counsel to clients in the film, television, music, broadcasting, theatre, advertising, literary, visual arts, new media and fashion industries, as well as to general business clients with intellectual property needs. He also consults on negotiation strategy for businesses of all kinds.

Mr. Chisick was the gold medalist in law at the University of Manitoba, earned a Masters of Law as a Fulbright and Frank Knox scholar at Harvard Law School, and served as law clerk to The Hon. Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada. He began his professional career as a law professor, first at the University of Manitoba and later at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he taught copyright, intellectual property, corporate law, negotiation and dispute resolution to hundreds of students and was recognized by National Magazine as a leader in introducing technology to the Canadian law school classroom. Through numerous writing and speaking engagements in Canada and internationally, Mr. Chisick became, and remains, one of Canada's best-known authorities on digital copyright issues. He has also taught at the University of Toronto and is a frequent commentator on copyright and entertainment issues for CBC television and radio.

Mr. Chisick is recognized as a leading practitioner by Chambers Global, PLC Which Lawyer? and LawDay and holds a BV Distinguished(tm) rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He currently serves as co-chair of the biennial Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) Entertainment, Media & Advertising Law Symposium and a member of the Copyright-Technical Committee of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. He is also active in a number of professional associations, including ALAI Canada, the Copyright Society of the USA and the ABA Entertainment & Sports Law Forum.