Elisabeth Freinberg
Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel
LA28
Elisabeth Freinberg is Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel at LA28, the Los Angeles
organizing committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Before joining LA28,
Freinberg served as vice president of business and legal affairs at Warner Bros. Entertainment
Inc., having previously served as a director of legal affairs for Warner Bros. Television and as
senior counsel to TMZ, which was owned and operated by a division of Warner Bros. Television
Group. From 2007 through 2011, Freinberg litigated cases as an associate at the Los Angelesbased
law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. While at the firm, she had the opportunity to
litigate cases on behalf of her clients in both state and federal courts at the trial and appellate
levels, including before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Freinberg began her legal career as a law clerk, first to the Hon. Margaret M. Morrow of the
United States District Court for the Central District of California, and then to the Hon. Joseph A.
Greenaway, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (and now of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit).
Freinberg earned her BA in history with honors from Columbia University, and her JD cum
laude from the University of Michigan Law School. She is admitted to practice in both California
and New York, as well as before a number of federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the
United States.
As a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law, Freinberg teaches courses on federal courts
and entertainment law.