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