Stephen Smith serves as Greenberg Glusker's Managing Partner.  His law practice focuses on representing entertainment companies in the motion picture, television and interactive gaming industries, and real estate development companies, as defendants or plaintiffs, and providing those companies with legal counseling related to all aspects of their businesses.

Mr. Smith also serves as outside employment counsel to small and medium-size companies in Southern California. 

• Successfully negotiated and closed one of the most significant video game deals in the industry on behalf of Ubisoft Entertainment in an acquisition of rights to use bestselling author Tom Clancy's name and likeness in connection with interactive games, related books and motion pictures  
• Represented Ubisoft Entertainment, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, in a license dispute against MGA Entertainment, the owner of the girl doll property known as “Bratz,” which resulted in a $13 million award in favor of Ubisoft
• Represented Crave Entertainment in a video game development dispute against Visiware Entertainment, a video game developer, which resulted in an award in favor of Crave for 100 percent of the damages sought by Crave along with all of its attorneys’ fees and costs
• Represented Spark Unlimited, the developer of video games Call of Duty Finest Hour, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty and Legendary: The Box, in a breach of contract and fraud claim against Activision Publishing
• Represented Savage Entertainment, a video game developer whose work includes Transformers, Blacksite, Medal of Honor: Vanguard and U.S. Army: DARPA Real World, in a breach of contract dispute with video game publisher Take Two Interactive
• Represented Gameloft, a mobile phone interactive gaming publisher, in copyright and trademark infringement action brought against it by Activision Publishing

• Represented Fun 4 All, a manufacturer of plush dolls, in a license dispute against MGA Entertainment, resulting in a $2 million award in favor of Fun 4 All
• Obtained a mandatory permanent injunction on behalf of the Estate of George Harrison, requiring Mr. Harrison’s former brother-in-law to return to the estate the personal property of Mr. Harrison, which the former brother-in-law had stolen 20 years earlier and then attempted to sell as memorabilia immediately after Mr. Harrison’s death
• Obtained a defense judgment on behalf of Abbott Laboratories, a medical device distributor, in a product defect case arising from a severe burn suffered by a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease when his gastrostomy feeding tube became dislodged causing his stomach acid to leak onto his skin 

• Obtained a complete dismissal on behalf of Taylor Thomson of wrongful termination, interference with contract and invasion of privacy claims that had been filed by Ms. Thomson's former nanny and, thereafter, obtained judgment against the nanny for malicious prosecution for having brought the wrongful termination claim

• Profiled, "Why arbitration remains the better option," Smart Business Magazine, September 1, 2011
• Featured in Lawyer Limelight, Lawdragon.com, August 24, 2009
  Quoted in, "Crushing Sales Figures Don't Signal 'Game Over' for Industry," E-Commerce Times, August 14, 2009
• Author, "Gimme Some Truth," The Recorder, August 20, 2008
• Co-author, “Entertainment and Media Law Client Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Case Strategies, Exceeding Client Expectations, and Negotiating Deals,” Aspatore Books, 2007
• Co-author, “Exemption Clause Gap,” Game Developer Magazine, June 2007
• Author, “Play Smart with Wages,” Game Developer Magazine, May 2006
• Co-author, “Contractual Jury Waivers Held Unenforceable,” California Real Estate Journal, February 13, 2006