An entertainment law attorney with more than 25 years of legal experience, this professional specializes in film, television, book publishing, copyright, licensing, Internet-related matters, executive employment compensation, and corporate transactions. The practice includes production counsel work, film-related transactions, financing for film, television, and theater productions, book-to-film and true-life adaptation matters, and mergers and acquisitions involving privately held businesses. Additional experience encompasses licensing, intellectual property issues, joint-venture financing, and other business transactions involving entertainment and media. The supplied materials do not document prior expert witness consultations, deposition testimony, or courtroom testimony, so those litigation functions are not attributed.

Professional responsibilities have included advising authors, playwrights, business professionals, producers, and other participants in entertainment and media transactions. Production counsel experience has involved feature films, documentaries, and other productions distributed through major and independent channels, with additional film-related transactions in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Executive compensation work includes negotiating employment agreements and severance packages for senior executives in industries including publishing, securities, motion pictures, architecture, and other privately and publicly held businesses.

Educational attainment includes a bachelor’s degree and a Juris Doctor degree. Academic experience includes more than 14 years teaching entertainment law at the law-school level and later teaching in graduate and undergraduate film programs. Professional involvement includes membership in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, prior chairmanship of its Entertainment Law Committee, and board service with New York Women in Film and the Creative Coalition. This combination of entertainment transactions, production counsel work, intellectual property matters, financing, executive compensation, and corporate deal experience provides a substantial legal foundation for evaluating agreements, rights, compensation arrangements, and business practices in entertainment and media-related disputes.