[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 115 (Monday, September 25, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1581]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      TRIBUTE TO DONALD BIEDERMAN

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                         HON. HOWARD L. BERMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 25, 2000

  Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor an outstanding 
attorney and model citizen, Mr. Donald Biederman who will be saluted 
tonight by Southwestern University Law School on his appointment as the 
head of its Entertainment and Media Law Institute. I have been proud to 
call Don a friend for almost twenty years. He is a man of enormous 
energy, intellect and integrity, who is an outstanding choice for this 
position.
  As a J.D. and LL.M. recipient from Harvard and New York University 
Law Schools respectively, Don has enjoyed an illustrious legal career 
in both the private sector and academia. He first began practicing 
entertainment law in 1972, when he became the chief legal officer at 
CBS Inc. From there, he moved to ABC Records Inc., where he served as 
the Vice President for Legal Affairs and Administration. Prior to 
starting his most recent position to the private sector, Executive Vice 
President and General Counsel at Warner/Chapell Music, Don was a 
partner at the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp.
  Throughout his legal career, Don has been a vigilant and outspoken 
opponent of intellectual piracy. The Record Industry Association of 
America and Billboard are just two of the many organizations that have 
honored him for his efforts in this area.
  Despite leading a distinguished career in the corporate world, Don 
has found the time for an equally outstanding tenure in academia. He 
has taught at such institutions of higher learning as: Peperdine 
University School of Law, USC Law Center, the UCLA School of Law, the 
Anderson School of Management, Vanderbilt, Harvard and Stanford. Prior 
to assuming his current position at Southwestern, Don was the director 
of USC's Entertainment Law Institute.
  While in academia, Don co-authored Law and Business of Entertainment 
Industries, a widely-used textbook on Media Law. He also wrote articles 
for a variety of publications including: the Hastings Communication/
Entertainment Law Journal, Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, and the 
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Practice.
  I am proud to be a friend to such an accomplished individual, and it 
is my distinct pleasure to ask my colleagues to join with me in 
saluting Professor Donald E. Biederman on his new position as the 
Director of Southwestern Unversity Law School's Entertainment and Media 
Law Institute. Southwestern could not have chosen a finer individual.

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