Mr. Hernstadt has a significant litigation and counseling practice. He has litigated a number of ground-breaking intellectual property and First Amendment cases, including successfully defending Tribune Entertainment Company against copyright and false advertising claims brought by Twentieth Century Fox in connection with the television show Mutant-X; defending Harvard University Press against libel claims; representing a web publisher in Universal City Studios v. Reimerdes, the first case to address the First American implications of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; and representing Bloomberg LP in Time Warner v. New York City, a First Amendment case involving the rights of the public, New York City, and a cable operator under the Cable Television Act. He has been a legal commentator for MSNBC, CNNfn, and National Public Radio, and recently authored an article on technology and copyright for the launch issue of eDesign Magazine. Mr. Hernstadt was recently invited to join the prestigious Federal Bar Council Inn of Court.

As an experienced employment attorney, Mr. Hernstadt has tried discrimination claims in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels, negotiated separation agreements for senior executives, and advised employers regarding a variety of employment and Human Resources matters.

Mr. Hernstadt graduated from Columbia University (B.A.) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law (cum laude, Order of the Coif), where he was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit in 1995, Mr. Hernstadt clerked for the Honorable Whitman Knapp in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York