Dane Johnson Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

DeepFocus is a boutique entertainment law firm concentrating on independent motion pictures, scripted television, and digital media and based in Portland, Oregon, a center for character animation and nearby resource for Hollywood studios. Entertainment attorney Dane Johnson is admitted to the state bars of California and Oregon, allowing the firm to provide entertainment industry legal services to clients in both states.Serve as production business and legal affairs counsel for independent narrative and documentary film, television, and digital media projects. Negotiate, draft, and review/redline contracts for above- and below-the-line talent and production personnel. Recently advised Health Safety Supervisors on compliance with COVID-19 requirements including SAG-AFTRA and other industry guild guidance on A24 and HBO productions and completed all production legal work through domestic and international sales agent agreements for indie romantic comedy distributed across streaming platforms. Provide corporate law services including business organizations to finance, produce, and distribute indie film projects with budgets between $100,000 and $9.5 million. Represent clients as entertainment attorney in negotiating literary property rights acquisitions to books and graphic novels and documenting deals in option/purchase agreements. Clear copyright, trademark, privacy, and publicity rights issues.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Advised creative talent such as filmmakers, actors, artists, authors, photographers, product designers, small press publishers, software developers, and nonprofit organizations in legal matters involving advertising law, business and corporate law, contracts, copyrights, employment law, website compliance with GDPR, COPPA, and other privacy laws, and trademark search and registration. Responded to USPTO substantive office actions and successfully opposed confusing trademark applications in Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Represented injury clients and non-profit organizations in solo civil litigation practice. Resolved cases successfully at jury trial, in arbitration, at summary judgment, and through mediation and settlement in state and federal courts. Conducted and defended depositions and written discovery.

Salem, Oregon, United States

Worked with senior trial attorneys to coordinate and direct 11 fellow law students. Briefed prevailing motion for summary judgment in case involving at-will status of a public employee. Assisted on two Title VII employment cases in federal court which ultimately resulted in defense verdicts at trial. Drafted pretrial motions and assisted in interviewing clients, preparing witnesses, and developing litigation strategy.

Doctor Of Jurisprudence (Jd)(Coif)

Activities and Societies: Order of the Coif; Oregon Law Review Staff Editor and Associate Editor; National Appellate Advocacy Competition.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa)(Honors), Advertising

Activities and Societies: Advertising Club of Los Angeles Ralph Carson Memorial ScholarshipFounded in 1930 and located in Pasadena.