Here are my practice areas and background in a grid format (download).

Practice Areas

  • General entertainment transactions and counseling (no music or entertainment finance)

  • Entertainment technology deals/counseling

  • Guild relations (negotiations and pre-arb contexts, not serving as litigation/arb counsel)

  • Talent agreements (on talent or producer side)

  • Software and other technology development and joint venture deals

  • Book publishing deals

  • Executive employment agreements

  • Talent agency matters

  • Title protection (author of innovative article on trademark registration for movie titles)

  • LGBTQ projects (former gay activist; prior to law school, initiated, drafted and lobbied for Cambridge, Mass. civil rights ordinance, then served on commission that the law established to investigate and adjudicate discrimination claims)

  • Clients have included Fortune 500 media and tech cos., mid-size and smaller cos., independent producers, directors, writers, actors, brands, software developers, entrepreneurs, authors, execs

Contact

jh@jhandel.com
jhandel.com
Bio, LinkedIn
323-650-0060 (landline)

Memberships

TV Academy
Dramatists Guild
Soc. Composers & Lyricists
Alliance LA Playwrights

Presentations

LA, Park City, Nashville, Taiwan, Havana

Profiled

Daily Journal (top 100 lawyers in Cal.)
Social.Lawyers (book)
LA Business Journal
Muck Rack, Forbes.com

Education

Harvard College (magna cum laude,
applied math and computer science)
Harvard Law School (cum laude)
Clerkship, US 5th Circuit

Books

Entertainment Residuals: A Full Color Guide
How to Write LOIs & Term Sheets
Hollywood on Strike!
The New Zealand Hobbit Crisis
Entertainment Unions & Guilds: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography

Additional Experience

Talent lawyer, Behr & Abramson
Assoc. counsel, Writers Guild (WGA)
Appellate litigator, Manatt Phelps
US Associate Independent Counsel (prosecutor)

Teaching/Research

Adjunct Professor, USC Law School and Southwestern LS
Research Fellow, Rutgers Univ.
UCLA Extension

Journalism

THR (10 years, 1,400 articles),
Los Angeles Times, Variety, Billboard, Campaigns & Elections, Backstage, Los Angeles Business Journal, Daily Journal, HuffPost, Forbes.com, Fortune.com

Sidebar

● Media commentator, 1,100+ appearances (int’l, nat’l & local TV, radio, print & online)
● Tech industry, 14 yrs. experience
● Several entertainment law journal articles
● Creative writing: poetry, scripts, stories