Bio

Alexander Murphy Jr. received his B.S. in Music with Honors from the highly acclaimed Wells School of Music, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania, and was a graduate teaching assistant at the School while undertaking post-graduate work in music theory, composition, and orchestration. He graduated with a J.D. from Delaware Law School (Widener University).

He is a frequent panelist and lecturer on entertainment law at entertainment industry programs and seminars at law schools, film festivals, film schools, bar associations, and other educational institutions and associations, including for continuing legal education courses, he was an adjunct professor at Rutgers University School of Law for several years, and has been an adjunct professor at the Delaware Law School for over twenty years, where he teaches entertainment law, and is the faculty advisor for its Sports and Entertainment Law Association (SELA), for which he moderates its annual "Sports and Entertainment Law CLE Symposium." He is a member of the Law School's Alumni Network Mentoring Program and is an advisor for its First Generation Law Student Association (FGLSA) as well.

Mr. Murphy is a two-term past member of the Board of Directors of the West Chester University Alumni Association, a member of the University's Law Alumni Chapter, and a member of the Chester County Chapter. He also has substantial accomplishments as an artist. His capabilities span the world of music to include jazz, classical, popular, and choral works. He has been a freelance musician and arranged and performed with several well-known popular jazz groups during and after his college years, including being a former arranger for the West Chester University's Golden Rams Marching Band, which was presented with the prestigious Sudler Trophy by the John Philip Sousa Foundation for most innovative and highest musical standards over the years (known as the "Heisman Trophy" of the collegiate band world).

Mr. Murphy has been named the number one 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 Top Lawyer for entertainment law by MAIN LINE TODAY magazine and a 2022 and 2023 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers selection.

Mr. Murphy lives in West Chester (Birmingham Township), Chester County, Pennsylvania. His daughter, Mackenzie, is a graduate of The Agnes Irwin School and Dartmouth College and is currently pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology, with a focus on adolescents, at Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Selected Programs and Speaking Engagements Include the Following

The Institute of Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Delaware Law School Intellectual Property Society, "The Role of Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century."

Temple University (Law School; Radio, Television and Film Department; Music Department)

Dartmouth College

Writers Groups: Brandywine Valley Writer's Group, Main Line Writer's Group, Wilmington-Chads Ford Writer's Group, The Princeton Club of New York Writers Group

Delaware Law School, "Law for Creators," a Workshop

Pennsylvania Bar Association/Pennsylvania Bar Institute (Entertainment Law CLE Program Speaker, "The Influence of Globalization on Film Financing"; Course Planner and Moderator,2012, "Entertainment Law in the Twenty-First Century: Effective Representation in an Ever-Changing Industry," 2014, and "Entertainment Law," 2017".

Drexel University, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship (IHHE)

University of Virginia Law School

University of Pennsylvania

Rutgers University School of Law

Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University

University of Tennessee College of Law

North Carolina School of the Arts (School of Filmmaking)/Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad Film Commission

North Carolina Film and Video Festival

North Carolina Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts/Arts & Entertainment Committee, North Carolina Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Course-Entertainment Law

Ohio Independent Film Festival

Rehoboth Beach Film Festival

East Lansing Film Festival

Nashville International Film Festival

Knoxville Film Festival

Villanova University (Law School; Theater Department; Art Law Association, Entertainment and Media Law Society)

University of Massachusetts

West Chester University (Wells School of Music; Theater Department)

Wayne State University (Dept. of Film and Communications)

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema/Philadelphia Film Festival

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