Jason Baruch

Jason Baruch represents clients in all areas of the entertainment industry.

Jason has served as production counsel for stage productions in New York and around the world, including musicals like The Great Gatsby, Illinoise, Buena Vista Social Club, Spamalot, Into the Woods, A Strange Loop, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Band’s Visit, The Cher Show, SpongeBob Squarepants, Rock of Ages, and The Producers, and plays like Othello, Good Night Oscar, Network, Burn This, Lifespan of a Fact, Present Laughter, An Act of God, and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winners Clybourne Park and I am My Own Wife. He also represents outside-the-box immersive productions such as Life & Trust.

Jason has served as legal counsel to some of the most innovative and exciting regional theaters including, in New York City, The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Second Stage, Ars Nova, Naked Angels and La Mama, and, around the country, Signature Theater (Arlington, VA), Berkeley Rep, Kansas City Rep, Shakespeare Theater Company, The Fisher Center at Bard, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In addition to commercial producers and theater companies, Jason and his firm are legal counsel to a long list of award-winning dramatists, directors and choreographers, designers, performers, orchestrators and arrangers. Clients of Sendroff & Baruch, LLP are involved in most of the shows on Broadway.

In addition to theater, Jason represents companies and individuals in the music industry, including recording artists and music publishers, as well as play licensing companies and fiction and non-fiction authors. He also renders film and television production services and represents producers, writers, actors and other talent in the film and television industry.

Jason is a co-chair of the Theater and Performing Arts committee of the Entertainment, Arts, Sports Law (EASL) section of the New York State Bar Association. He serves on various boards of directors and advisory boards. He has taught for more than two decades at the Commercial Theater Institute (CTI) and wrote a chapter in CTI’s book called “The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals.” He also organizes and participates regularly in panels and lectures on the subject of theater law.

Jason clerked for The Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is admitted to the bars in both the States of California (1994) and New York (1993).  He founded Sendroff & Baruch, LLP in 2007 with law partner Mark Sendroff. Every year since 2012, Jason has been chosen as a Super Lawyer® and in 2020 and again in 2023 was selected as the only entertainment lawyer on the “Top 100” Super Lawyer® in the United States, and he is named regularly on the list of Best Lawyers in New York City in Best Lawyers® magazine (where he was selected “Lawyer of the Year” by his peers for 2023, an honor awarded to a single attorney in a practice area), and in the Chambers® USA directory of top attorneys.

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‍Yale College - 1990
B.A. philosophy magna cum laude ‍

NYU Law School - 1994
J.D. cum laude

University of Hong Kong Law School – 1997
LL.M.

New York State Bar
Admitted 1993

California State Bar
Admitted 1994

US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Admitted 1994

US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Admitted 1994

New York State Bar Association, Entertainment Arts & Sports Law Section
Executive Committee, Chair of Theater and Performing Arts Committee, Since 1996

Commercial Theater Institute
Since 1997, Lecturer

Pipeline Theater Company
Board Member
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On advisory boards to various not-for-profit theater companies

Top-Rated Attorney (annually since 2012)
SuperLawyers

Top 100 Lawyer (2022)
SuperLawyers

Top-Rated Attorney (annually since 2016)
Best Lawyers

Lawyer of the Year (2023)
Best Lawyers

“Best Law Firm” Top-Rate Firm (annually since 2016)
Best Lawyer’s

Best Lawer and Best Law Firm (annually since 2016)
Chambers USA

HERE-manitarian Award (2023)
HERE Arts Center

November 8, 2024 - Jason spoke on a panel with general manager Carl Pasbjerg of Alchemy Productions and certified public accountant Robert Fried of Withum+ about the roles of the accountants, lawyers, and general managers in commercial stage productions, in a 3-day program organized by the Commercial Theater Institute.

October 31, 2024 -  Jason organized a panel discussion for the NYSBA EASL Fall 2-day program about not-for-profit and commercial theater financing with fellow theater counsel Doug Nevin of Klaris Law and general manager Danielle Karliner Naish of RCI.

March 6, 2024 – Jason spoke at a panel on generative artificial intelligence and its impact on the theater industry, along with fellow attorneys Carrie Casselman and Fillip Kofman of Davis Wright Tremaine LLC, and agent Patrick Herold of United Talent Agency.

September 19, 2024 – Jason taught a class on the legal aspects of U.S. commercial theater producing to UK producers under the auspices of a joint program between Stage One in the UK and Columbia University in NYC, organized by Columbia faculty member Steven Chaikelson and accountant Robert Fried at Withum+’

June 14, 2023 – Jason organized and spoke at a panel for NYSBA’s EASL Section about commercial theater financing with general manager Amanda Harper at Foresight Theatrical, and fellow attorneys Carol Kaplan and Scott Wilcox, both at Loeb & Loeb LLP.