Marjorie Garcia
Practice Areas
- Music
- Entertainment
- Intellectual Property
Biography
Marjorie Garcia is a partner in the Entertainment Department of the firm, where she represents a diverse range of clients across the music, entertainment, and digital media industries. Her clients include recording artists, songwriters, producers, influencers, digital creators, entertainment companies, independent labels, and established and emerging brands. Her practice focuses on the negotiation and drafting of sophisticated commercial transactions, including recording, publishing, sponsorship, branding, product endorsement and integration, catalog acquisitions, merchandising, live performance, licensing, and other intellectual property and entertainment agreements.
Ms. Garcia regularly advises recording artists, producers, writers, influencers, digital creators, and public personalities on all aspects of the commercial exploitation, protection, and monetization of their intellectual property rights across all forms of media. She negotiates brand partnerships, sponsorships, content licensing and production agreements, talent and management agreements.
With over 20 years of experience in entertainment law, Ms. Garcia brings a comprehensive understanding of both domestic and international markets. She represents clients across a broad spectrum of the entertainment industry and is particularly recognized for her extensive experience in the Latin music business, where she has advised many of the industry's leading artists, songwriters, producers, and entertainment companies on high-profile domestic and cross-border transactions. Her strategic counsel has helped clients protect and maximize the value of their intellectual property while supporting long-term business growth.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Garcia served as legal counsel in the Business and Legal Affairs department at Universal Music Group, where she supported operations in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Spain. In that role, she advised on a broad range of intellectual property, licensing, marketing, digital media, and content production matters for one of the world's largest music companies.
Ms. Garcia is a frequent speaker on entertainment law and is recognized as a leading entertainment attorney. She has been featured by Billboard as one of the industry's Top Music Lawyers, recognized by Variety in its Power of Women in Hollywood issue, and named one of Remezcla's Major Mujeres in Latin Music for her contributions to the entertainment industry.
Education
- University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California
- J.D. - 2005
- California State University At Northridge, Northridge, California
- B.A. - 2002
Bar Admission
- California, 2005
Current Employment Position
- Partner
Honors
- Billboard Magazine, Top Music Lawyers List
- HITS Magazine, Top Entertainment Lawyers
- Variety, Power of Women in Hollywood feature
- Wonder Women of Latin Music
- Remezcla, Major Mujeres in Latin Music
Speaking Engagements
- CLE panelist, Beverly Hills Bar Association’s “Racial Bias in the Entertainment Industry,” November 2022
- Speaker, Harvard Law School’s “Latin Music Market,” April 2025
Articles & Publications
- "Need for Pro-Immigrant Voices" – Billboard Op-Ed (June 2025).
Languages
- English
- Spanish
