David A. Gurwin is an attorney and Shareholder with the national law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, resident in the Firm's Pittsburgh and New York City offices. A professional jazz pianist himself, he chairs the Firm's Entertainment, Media & Sports Law Group. He also chairs the Firm's Technology Transactions Group and is also a member of the Corporate Finance and Technology Section as well as the Venture Capital and Emerging Companies Group.

Mr. Gurwin represents clients in a broad variety of industries, with a particular focus on Internet, computer and technology clients, as well as those involved in the entertainment industries.

In the technology arena, Mr. Gurwin represents and has represented clients in a broad variety of industries including Internet, e-commerce, software and information technology, biomedical, health care, advertising, consumer products, manufacturing, insurance and retail in connection with licensing and other business transactions involving the sale, acquisition and commercial exploitation of software, biotech and other technology assets.

In the entertainment and sports industries, his clients include and have included video game developers, film producers, musicians, record companies, recording artists, record producers, concert promoters, songwriters, music publishers, advertising and interactive agencies, fine artists, authors, literary publishers, television personalities, broadcasters, webcasters, playwrights, video production companies, arts organizations, professional athletes and sports teams and organizations. He also practices extensively in the areas of copyright, trademark and intellectual property law.

Mr. Gurwin received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree, summa cum laude, from The Ohio State University in 1982. He received his Juris Doctor degree, with honors in Law, from The Ohio State University in 1985, where he served as Article Editor of The Ohio State Law Journal and was elected to The Order of the Coif.

He is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

He is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association and The International Technology Law Association. He is Past-Chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association's Arts and Law Section.

He is a School Director of the Hampton Township School District; a member of the Board of Directors of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Pittsburgh; a member of the Advisory Board of the Pittsburgh Technology Council IT Network; a member of the Board of Advisors of Carnegie Mellon University's Arts and Culture Observatory; and a member of the Board of Directors and Musical Director of Adat Shalom Synagogue.

He is a co-author of Inside the Minds: The Legal Side of Entertainment, Sports, & Media, Aspatore Books (2004) and the author of Information Technology Consulting and Other Professional Services Agreements: Line by Line, Aspatore Books (2005).

Mr. Gurwin also is an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School where he teaches a course on Law & the Arts in the Masters of Arts Management Program. He also is a frequent lecturer and author on the subjects of entertainment law, Internet and computer law and intellectual property law.