Dennis Gronsky Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca

Promoted multiple times with increasing responsibility throughout an accomplished 13-year career with Paramount with working knowledge of day-to-day marketing legal risk management and analysis. ➣ First point of contact for assigned titles responsible for drafting, negotiating, and finalizing non-standard and external contracts on behalf of the global marketing and legal affairs department. ➣ Serves as a go-to resource for all substantive and strategic questions or issues related to creative content, publicity, interactive, and in-theater marketing promotions globally. ➣ Prepares, reviews, and tracks legal documents and correspondence for the global theatrical, streaming, and TV home entertainment marketing spaces supporting new release features, and catalog motion pictures.➣ Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex agreements for marketing and publicity projects, including creative content productions; online/digital and social media, contacts with social media platforms, influencers, media monitoring and market intelligence, content licensing, original artwork creation, publicity and awards consulting services; co-promotions and co-branded advertising, cost-share arrangements, live and virtual events, contests and sweepstakes, product placements, and non-disclosure documents.➣ Works with worldwide marketing attorneys, client groups, and vendors to provide analysis and advice on marketing and promotional activities, including labor issues, intellectual property and content clearance, regulatory issues, and privacy.➣ Analyzes and provides advice relating to creative assets intended for use in advertising and promotion.➣ Point person for electronic document management solutions, including developing standards and best practices for document management and assisting with system configurations.

Los Angeles, Ca

Promoted to oversee the day-to-day administration of the entire global marketing document management system. ➣ Ensured staff maintained strict compliance with meta-data and contract management rules and regulations.➣ Created and revised templates and provided precedent legal documents for the department.➣ Negotiated contracts and prepared, reviewed, and tracked a high volume of legal correspondence for domestic theatrical motion picture marketing campaigns across multiple titles.➣ Conceptualized and led PowerPoint presentations for department training concerning venues and catering contractual issues. ➣ Served as the primary contact in assisting with legal questions related to field publicity consulting services, prize acceptance agreements, and third-party promotional contest rules.

Los Angeles, Ca

Provided daily paralegal high volume administrative and drafting support to two Senior Attorneys. ➣ Assisted with training and mentoring peers. ➣ Performed contract administration for domestic marketing legal-related agreements, including drafting standard creative advertising photography, master consulting, special event consulting, hotel catering, and promotional licensing agreements.➣ Developed precedential legal documents for both domestic and international theatrical contractual matters.➣ Negotiated contracts and prepared, reviewed, and tracked legal correspondence for domestic theatrical motion picture marketing campaigns for multiple features.➣ Redrafted and finalized external hotel and rental/catering agreements for awards, publicity, special events, and first-pass revisions of external media sponsorship, co-sponsorship, and licensing contacts.➣ Migrated thousands of contracts into various marketing legal document management systems.

Los Angeles, Ca

Prepared legal correspondence for domestic theatrical publicity and creative advertising. ➣ Provided high volume administrative and drafting support for a department Vice President and Attorney. ➣ Tracked consumer product safety files and prepared marketing documents for current features in production, post-production, and development projects. ➣ Searched for precedential legal documents for a range of complex domestic theatrical contractual matters.➣ Reviewed, revised, and finalized official sweepstakes giveaway rules and prize acceptance agreements. ➣ Led additional research efforts for various features, marketing, CPSIA, FTC, COPPA, and state statutes.

Santa Monica, Ca

Led the planning and coordination of music and media licensing of unscripted and scripted TV for the network. ➣ Directed the effort for scripted show content clearance review and obtained music clearance licenses.➣ Created a screening process for client groups to identify and correct potential program risk factors➣ Reviewed and approved music cue sheets, imported and recorded track rights information, uploaded documents, and research rights to pre-existing music videos into MTVN programming databases. ➣ Negotiated licenses and permissions with copyright owners of film, music, books, and artists’ management.➣ Negotiated favorable rates and secured rights for music and other media material included in programming produced by VH1, CMT, and MTV West Coast Production. ➣ Facilitated clearance requests by researching copyright ownership and rights to pre-existing MTVN material. Prepared written requests to copyright owners.

Studio City, Ca

Provided high volume administrative support for a Vice President and two attorneys. Drafted documents and reviewed, screened, and tracked legal correspondence. ➣ Prepared standard forms, memoranda, and short and long-form agreement drafts. ➣ Drafted documents and reviewed, screened, and tracked legal correspondence. ➣ Created legal correspondence for projects in development and current TV series in production. ➣ Provided technical and logistical support for new DVD clearance department personnel and helped with research for TV and DVD/home video legal issues and special projects. ➣ Conceptualized and rolled out a Lotus Notes status report database system for the TV legal department.

Pasadena, Ca

Pasadena, Ca

Law

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Communications