The Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel

About AMEC The Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel was formed in late 2005. AMEC was founded by Arnold Peter, President and Managing Partner of the boutique law firm, Peter Law Group and the former Vice President of Legal Affairs and Labor Relationships at Universal Studios; Bill Simon, Chair of the Global Media & Entertainment Practice at executive search firm Korn Ferry International, and Peter Winkler, then the marketing leader of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment & Media Practice. Our founders were concerned that there was no organization representing the interests and celebrating talented in-house counsel and attorneys at Entertainment and Media companies. Organizations existed to support and honor the achievements of other professional – from actors to costume designers, with one exception – in-house counsels and business affairs attorneys. AMEC’s goal was to change that. AMEC today The Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel is a 19-year-old organization comprised of more than 14,000 accomplished men and women working in a variety of executive roles, including in-house counsel and business affairs attorneys at major entertainment and media companies and law firms. Once a year, we host the Counsel of the Year Awards, an annual event celebrating the crème de la crème of the legal world in Media and Entertainment.