I speak to professional and industry groups on a range of entertainment legal and business topics.

Reverse Chronological List of Presentations

• [2025-2026 updates coming soon]

• AI: Challenges and Changes to the Industry and New Opportunities for Artists, The 10th Annual 'State of Music' in Media Conference, Guild of Music Supervisors (8/17/2024) (panelist).

• The Case for AI in Filmmaking, HollyShorts Film Festival (8/15/2024) (panelist).

• Strike Post-Mortem, Entertainment Industry Conference, California Society of CPAs (6/20/2024) (panelist).

• Entertainment Industry Strikes, Negotiations and Ratifications in 2023 - Lessons Learned, USC Gould School of Law (4/19/2024) (moderator).

• Ask Me Anything—Legal, National Assn. of Broadcasters (Las Vegas, 4/15/2024) (guild law panelist).

• Labor Patterns and Collective Bargaining: Artificial Intelligence and (vs) Entertainment Agreements, ABA Forum on Entertainment & Sports Industries (4/12/2024) (panelist).

• Examining Labor Laws in Light of the SAG-AFTRA Strike, Harvard Law School 2024 Entertainment Law Symposium (3/21/2024).

• Generative AI and the Current Legal Landscape, AI Summit, Television Academy (2/24/2024) (moderator).

• Robots Come to Hollywood: Breaking Down the Artificial Intelligence Provisions in the New SAG-AFTRA and WGA Contracts, Manatt (2/6/2024) (panelist).

• Nine investor conference calls on the 2023 Hollywood union and guild negotiations, strikes and agreements (2022-2024).

• Artist Representation: Unions & Talent Agencies, Fordham Law School Ninth Annual Media & Entertainment Law Symposium (NY, 1/19/2024) (panelist).

• The Impact of AI on Entertainment, New York State Bar Assn. Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section (NY, 1/18/2024) (moderator).

• The Writing on the Wall: Lessons, Takeaways & Opportunities From the Hollywood Strikes, California Copyright Conference (1/9/2024) (panelist).

• SAG-AFTRA Lightning Round Part 3: What the Actors Won (and Didn’t Get), Media Law Resource Center (12/15/2023) (presenter).

• What's in the New SAG-AFTRA Deal: AI, Residuals, and More; Plus the Video Game Negotiations, Media Financial Management Assn. (12/12/2023) (presenter).

• Strike-A-Geddon: How the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes will reshape Hollywood Deal-Making, LAIPLA Techtainment 9.0 (11/15/2023).

• Lunch & Learn, Arizona State U. Law School (Phoenix, 10/30/2023) (panelist).

• Writers Guild of America Strike, U. of Fl. EASLS (10/26/2023) (panelist).

• WGA Strike: What the Writers Won & What’s Next?, Media Law Resource Center (10/18/2023) (presenter).

• Labor Update 2023, USC Gould School of Law – Beverly Hills Bar Association 2023 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business (10/14/2023) (moderator/panelist).

• Hollywood Labor Panel: What’s Happening / What Just Happened?, ABA 45th Annual Conference of the Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries (Las Vegas, 10/6/2023) (presenter).

• Beyond the Fine Print: New WGA Deal Unpacked and Analyzed, Beverly Hills Bar Assn. (10/5/2023) (presenter).

• Understanding the Hollywood Strikes, Media Financial Management Assn. (8/29/2023) (presenter).

• Solidarity in a Divided Hollywood: From the Blacklist to Today's Hollywood Strikes, Skirball Center (8/13/2023).

• Mediating the Strikes: Can Neutrals Help Resolve Hollywood's Labor Strife? Beverly Hills Bar Assn. (7/28/2023).

• Hollywood on Hold: Everything You Want to Know about the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes, Media Law Resource Center (7/21/2023) (presenter).

• Unpacking the Writer’s Strike, Palm Springs International ShortFest (Palm Springs, 6/23/2023) (panelist).

• Towards an Early History of Entertainment Residuals, 1933-60, Beyster Symposium, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (videoconference, June 23, 2020) (presenter).

• What is AB 5 and What Does it Mean for Me?, Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group (January 22, 2020) (presenter).

• Shifting Media Landscape, 17th Annual Entertainment and Media Law Conference of Media Law Resource Center and Southwestern Law School (January 16, 2020) (panelist).

• All the World’s an App: Entertainment in Flux Across the Globe, Legal Network International (October 18, 2019) (moderator).

• Beyond the Headlines: What’s Really Going on in the WGA / Talent Agency Dispute, Los Angeles Copyright Society (September 11, 2019).

• Journalism in Entertainment: Protecting the First Amendment, Finding the Truth, and Reaching the Audience, Pepperdine University Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law Summer Classroom Series (August 7, 2019).

• WGA / Talent Agency Fight, presentation to large downtown Los Angeles law firm (July 8, 2019).

• Profit Sharing in Hollywood, Beyster Symposium, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (La Jolla, June 24, 2019) (presenter).

• WGA/ATA: How to Win the Peace, Content LA (May 17, 2019) (panelist).

• The WGA, Agencies & Labor, The Difficult to Name Reading Series, Stories Books & Café (April 19, 2019).

• Mid-Year Fellows Workshop in Honor of Louis O. Kelso, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (New Brunswick, NJ, January 12, 2019) (discussant).

• Curb Bad Behavior: Curtailing Harassment from Start to Finish, Beverly Hills Bar Assoc. (October 30, 2018) (co-moderator).

• All the World’s an App: Channeling the Past, Present and Future of Media, Entertainment and Technology, Ivy Entertainment Summit (August 4, 2018) (keynote) (video starting at about 4:30).

• The Changing Landscape of the Entertainment Industry, Harvard Law School Alumni Assoc. (February 24, 2016) (panelist).

• Presentation on residuals, Green Hasson Janks (March 25, 2015).

• Startups Legal Advice To Help Avoid ‘Soul-Crushing’ Mistakes, Silicon Beach @ USC (October 29, 2014) (panelist).

• Entertainment Law for Short Filmmakers, HollyShorts Film Conference (August 19, 2014) (moderator).

• Presentation on entertainment unions and guilds, Columbia College Chicago (May 8, 2014).

• Aereo, investor conference call for DeMatteo Monness (April 17, 2014).

• Aereo, FilmOn, Aereokiller … A Copyright Thriller!: A tale of 2 countries, 3 companies and 13 cases, Pannone Legal Group (international association of law firms) (October 11, 2013).

• Aereo, investor conference call for DeMatteo Monness (May 28, 2013).

• Presentation on entertainment journalism, Columbia College Chicago (February 14, 2013).

• Loyola Law School Entertainment Law and Litigation Symposium (December 6, 2012) (panelist).

• Presentation on unions and guilds, Columbia College Chicago (September 25, 2012).

• Master Class on Guilds and Unions, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (April 20, 2012).

• Residuals Management: A Challenging Opportunity, Hollywood IT Summit (March 2, 2012) (panelist).

• Residuals Management: Past Present and Future, Hollywood IT Society (HITS) breakfast meeting (January 25, 2012).

• PR Summit Chat-Up (November 12, 2011) (panelist).

• Over the Top and Through the Woods: Navigating the New Television Thicket, USC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business (October 22, 2011) (moderator).

• Art of the Deal, Digital Hollywood (October 18, 2011) (panelist).

• Social Networking, Social Media and Video for Results, Legal Marketing Technology Conference/West (San Francisco, September 15, 2011) (panelist).

• SAG/AFTRA Merger, presentation to The Actors’ Network (June 2011).

• “A Conversation with … Jonathan Handel,” Southwestern Law School (April 12, 2011).

• Compensation & Creative Labor Roundtable, Net Worth: Media Distribution in the Digital Era conference, UC Santa Barbara (February 18, 2011) (panelist).

• Legal panel, Screen Actors Guild Diversity Day (October 16, 2010) (moderator).

• Art of the Deal, Digital Hollywood (May 6, 2010) (panelist).

• Southeast European Film Festival Business Conference (May 3, 2010) (panelist).

• Chapman University School of Law Distinguished Entertainment and Sports Law Speaker Series (September 30, 2009) (presenter).

• Meltdown to Ramp Up: Entertainment Law Year in Review, Beverly Hills Bar Association (April 2009) (panelist).

• Like Scorpions in a Silicon Cage: How Hollywood Management and Labor Fought While Content's Kingdom Was Slipping Away, Lights, Labor, Action: Labor Controversy in the Sports and Entertainment Industries conference, Vanderbilt Law School (March 2009) (keynote speaker).

• Labor Discord in Hollywood, Zocalo Public Square (March 2009) (panelist).

• Will SAG Strike?, investor conference call for RBC Capital Markets (December 18, 2008).

• Union: Contract Negotiations, presentation to the Actors' Network (July 2008).

• No SAG Resolution Yet—Stay Tuned, investor conference call for Wachovia Capital Markets (July 2, 2008).

• New Ways of Storytelling, MediaXchange conference (June 2008) (moderator).

• Spinning the Web, Writers Guild of America (June 2008) (panelist).

• Understanding the Issues in the WGA Strike, investor conference call for RBC Capital Markets (February 1, 2008).

• The Writers Strike and You, presentation at Queer Lounge / Sundance Film Festival (January 21, 2008).

• One-week Masterclass on US entertainment industry, Taipei National University of the Arts (Taipei, Taiwan, 2007).

• Legal Issues for Screenwriters, Screenwriting Expo and Script Writers Showcase (2003–2006) (panelist).

• Technology in the Entertainment Industry, presentation to ICAIC, the Cuban Institute of Motion Picture Arts and Industry (Havana, Cuba, December 2003).

• Technology and the Entertainment Industry, presentation to 30 CEOs of Korean video game and animation companies (December 2003) (UCLA Extension).

• Technology and the Television Busi­ness, Presentation for Fuji Television Network (November 2003).

• The Film Industry: Business, Law and Technology, presen­tation to Warner Bros. Global Trainee Program (September 2003).

• Entertainment law and intellectual property presentations to Los Angeles Film School producing class (2002, 2004, 2008).

• Filmmaking and Technology, presentation to Masterclass Los Angeles: Three-Week Custom Program for Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (August 2002) (UCLA Extension).

• Doing Deals in a Digital World, panel at ShowBiz Expo (June 2002) (moderator).

• Internet and Entertainment Technology, presenta­tions at Beverly Hills Bar Association and Disney, Dreamworks, Sony, and William Morris Agency (1998–1999).

• Cybercrime, Copyright and Free Speech on the Internet (October 1995) (panelist).

• Appellate Advocacy in the Fifth Circuit, presentation to Dallas Bar Association entertainment law group (August 1991).