Frederick has extensive experience handling complex issues for media, entertainment, and technology companies, including deep knowledge of artificial intelligence and the related legal disputes that can arise.
Prior to rejoining the firm, he served as vice president and assistant chief counsel for The Walt Disney Company, where he headed the product legal group for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. Prior to that he was corporate counsel at Amazon Prime Video, where he oversaw all AI-related projects and also served as global head of legal for its transactional video-on-demand business. He was also previously general counsel at a Harvard-backed blockchain technology company with a $5 billion market cap and co-founded a litigation finance company.
While an associate at BSF, Frederick represented clients in over fifty matters in federal and state court, arbitrations, and government investigations in a wide range of domestic and international disputes, including intellectual property, fair use, securities-fraud, antitrust, breach-of-contract, tax, and corporate governance matters. His representative matters included cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the successful representation of the plaintiff class in Erica P. John Fund v. Halliburton Co., which held that securities fraud plaintiffs need not prove loss causation at the class certification stage. He also helped successfully represent artist Richard Prince in Cariou v. Prince, which held that certain works of appropriation art made fair use of copyrighted photographs.
Before law school, Frederick was an associate analyst at NERA Economic Consulting. He has published articles in the fields of law and economics.