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You can view my Digital Media Law blog at jhandel.com.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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- Jonathan Handel
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I practice transactional entertainment and technology law at TroyGould in Los Angeles and am a contributing editor for The Hollywood Reporter, where I cover entertainment labor and select other matters. I am also the author of the book Hollywood on Strike!, which chronicles and analyzes the Hollywood writers strike of 2007-2008 and ensuing Screen Actors Guild stalemate that lasted through mid-2009.
I was an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School in January 2012 (intersession) and at UCLA School of Law in Spring 2010. I’ve previously worked as a talent lawyer; as associate counsel at the Writers Guild; and as a litigator.
I am a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and was named by the Daily Journal as one of the top 100 lawyers in California in 2008. I’ve been profiled in the book social.lawyers by Jayne Navarre and by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College in applied math and computer science, I worked in the computer industry before attending Harvard Law School. I graduated from law school cum laude in 1990, and then clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. During 1993, while a litigation associate at a Los Angeles firm, I concurrently served as a federal Associate Independent Counsel (special prosecutor) investigating alleged misconduct in the Bush administration.
In addition to The Hollywood Reporter, my writing has also been published in the Los Angeles Times, Variety, Los Angeles Business Journal, Daily Journal, Huffington Post, Forbes.com and IMDb.com.
I’m also the author of a short book for technology executives, entitled How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. My article on trademark registration for movie titles was selected as a cover article by Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, and his law review article Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown: Why Content’s Kingdom is Slipping Away, which discusses the struggle between content and technology, appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law.
I’ve presented seminars on the entertainment industry to professional audiences in Los Angeles, Park City (at the Sundance Film Festival), Nashville (Vanderbilt Law School), Taiwan, and Havana. For several years, I taught a film appreciation and screening class (approximately 400 students) for UCLA Extension.
BTW, in case you were looking for a dose of legalese, here it is. My blog reflects my own opinions, may constitute “attorney advertising,” is not legal advice, may not reflect the most current legal developments, and should not be attributed to my clients, TroyGould or The Hollywood Reporter. My blog is copyright © 2007-2012 Jonathan Handel. You’re welcome to reproduce reasonable portions of it as long as you include my name and a link to the original post.