Senior Counsel
CurrentTransactional attorney specializing in entertainment, technology and Hollywood unions and guilds.
Sep 2023 - Present
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Jonathan Handel Email & Phone Number
Entertainment/tech attorney @ Feig Finkel, journalist (fmr Puck, fmr Contr. Ed., The Hollywood Reporter), creative writer
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Entertainment/tech attorney @ Feig Finkel, journalist (fmr Puck, fmr Contr. Ed., The Hollywood Reporter), creative writer
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Jonathan Handel previously worked as Senior Counsel at Feig Finkel Llp and Attorney at Law Offices Of Jonathan Handel. Jonathan Handel holds Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law from Harvard Law School.
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About Jonathan Handel
I practice transactional entertainment and technology law at Feig/Finkel in Los Angeles and independently. I was a Special Counsel to SAG-AFTRA and am a freelance journalist (former contributor to Puck and former contributing editor for The Hollywood Reporter, where I covered entertainment labor and employment, law and business for a decade). I've written several books, and am also a former computer scientist and was involved in local politics and gay politics for a decade. All opinions my own, not that of my clients or organizations.Specialties:entertainment lawentertainment labor lawtechnology lawjournalism
Listed skills include New Media, Entertainment, Digital Media, Film, and 46 others.
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Attorney
Current
Law Offices Of Jonathan Handel
Entertainment/technology lawyer.
Mar 1995 - Present
Research Fellow
CurrentNon-resident research fellow at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations' Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. Appointment is intended to recognize and further my work on residuals, which are a form of entertainment industry revenue sharing that unions negotiate for directors, writers, actors and musicians..
Jul 2019 - Present
Contributing Writer
Contributor on labor issues to Puck (Puck.news), a subscription newsletter covering Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington and Wall Street.
Oct 2022 - Jul 2024
Of Counsel
Transactional attorney specializing in digital media, entertainment, and technology law
Mar 1996 - Sep 2023
Chief Strategy Officer (Cso) / Chief Legal Officer (Clo)
CSO/CLO at entertainment tech startup that helps recipients of residuals, composer royalties and profit participations track usage of film and TV product.
Aug 2021 - Jul 2023
Adjunct Professor
Southwestern Law School
Teach a course on the Writers Guild and other Hollywood unions.
Jan 2012 - Oct 2022
Special Counsel
Outside Special Counsel to union representing performers, sound recording artists, broadcasters and others. Advise on special projects, cutting-edge issues and complex matters.
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Lecturer In Law (Adjunct Professor)
I've taught The Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology and teach an entertainment labor course.
Aug 2012 - Aug 2021
Contributing Editor
Covered entertainment labor and employment, law and business. Wrote about 1,400 articles.
Jul 2010 - Aug 2020
Freelance Blogger
Wrote about entertainment labor, reviewed tech gadgets, and mused about random other things.
Nov 2007 - Jan 2018
Author
Entertainment Labor: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography
"Entertainment Labor: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography" is a comprehensive bibliography of books, articles, dissertations and more relating to entertainment labor.
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Author
The New Zealand Hobbit Crisis
The "New Zealand Hobbit Crisis: How Warner Bros. Bent a Government to Its Will and Crushed an Attempt to Unionize The Hobbit" is my new book describing an incident involving Peter Jackson, Warner Bros. and the making of The Hobbit.
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
May 2010 - Dec 2011
Author
"Hollywood On Strike!" Book
Author of a book on the 2007-2008 Writers Guild (WGA) strike and the 2008-2009 Screen Actors Guild stalemate / quasi-strike. Both were symptoms of the disruptive effects of the Internet and other new technology in Hollywood.
Feb 2011 - Feb 2011
Jan 2010 - Jun 2010
Columnist
Script Magazine
Wrote about legal issues for screenwriters.
Jan 2007 - 2008
General Counsel
Queer Lounge
Volunteer general counsel for non-profit organization that ran a gay-friendly space at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. Legal issues included sponsorship contracts, venue rental and leases, joint venture agreement with GLAAD, independent contractor agreements and various non-profit matters.
2003 - 2008
~5 yrs
Instructor
Moderated a film screening/appreciation course for about 400 students at the DGA and WGA theaters, Selected movies, negotiated with film publicists, introduced films and conducted Q&A with filmmakers, cast and crew.
1997 - 2004
~7 yrs
Jan 1996 - Jan 1996
Attorney
Behr & Abrahmson
Transactional associate in firm with motion picture talent practice.
1994 - 1995
~1 yr
Associate Counsel
Represented film and TV writers and WGA in arbitrations. Advised Policy Review Board (appellate body) in credit arbitrations.
1993 - 1994
~1 yr
Associate Independent Counsel
Office Of The Independent Counsel
Associate federal prosecutor in investigation of allegedly improper search of Presidential candidate Bill Clinton's passport files by officials of administration of President George H. W. Bush.
Jun 1992 - Jun 1993
1991 - 1993
~2 yrs
Law Clerk
Hon. Irving Goldberg
Law clerk to federal court of appeals judge.
1990 - 1991
~1 yr
Prosecutor
Essex County District Attorney
Student prosecutor in state court. Prosecuted DUI and simple assault and battery cases.
Feb 1990 - May 1990
1988 - 1990
~2 yrs
Founder/Member
Cambridge Human Rights Commission
Drafted Cambridge Human Rights Ordinance (local civil rights law). Lobbied and helped organize passage of ordinance. Subsequently, Chair (1987), Vice-Chair (1985-86), and member (1988) of local civil rights commission.
1984 - 1990
~6 yrs
Jun 1989 - Aug 1989
Summer Associate
Silverglate, Gertner, Fine & Good
Summer litigation associate at leading criminal defense / civil liberties firm. Coauthored federal appellate brief.
Jun 1988 - Sep 1988
Summer Associate
Silverglate, Gertner, Fine & Good
Summer litigation associate at leading criminal defense / civil liberties law firm. Cowrote brief in federal appellate case In re Bushkin.
Jun 1988 - Sep 1988
Consultant
Jurisoft
Helped design legal software.
1988 - 1988
Tech Writer
Gold Hill Computers
Documented LISP programming language.
1986 - 1987
~1 yr
Beta Tester
Final Word
Extensive beta testing of word processing software.
1983 - 1987
~4 yrs
Beta Tester
Mark Of The Unicorn
Extensive beta testing of word processing software.
1983 - 1987
~4 yrs
Tech Writer
Proteon
Prepared user and programmer documentation for networking hardware and software.
1985 - 1986
~1 yr
Marketing
Isys Corporation
Prepared marketing materials and helped develop strategy for publisher of investment databases.
1984 - 1985
~1 yr
Member Of Technical Staff
Researcher in various aspects of artificial intelligence and networking for company that invented the Internet (ARPAnet).
1983 - 1984
~1 yr
Tech Writer
Prepared user documentation for advanced email software, for company that later became the first dot-com ever registered.
1981 - 1982
~1 yr
Summer Student
Designed exception handling (error handling) mechanism for experimental systems programing language.
1980 - 1981
~1 yr
Summer Student
Designed and implemented a syntactic parser for English. Wrote technical report documenting same.
1978 - 1980
~2 yrs
Summer Student
Control Data Corporation
Developed applications for multi-hundred-user graphics and touch-screen based timesharing system.
1977 - 1977
Afterschool And Summer Job
The Computer Corner
Store clerk in one of the first dozen computer stores in the country.
1976 - 1977
~1 yr
3 education records
Jonathan Handel education
Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law
Harvard Law School
Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Applied Math & Computer Science
Harvard University
High School Diploma, Mathematics
Scarsdale Senior High School
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Jonathan Handel is based in Los Angeles, California, United States while working with Feig Finkel LLP.
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Jonathan Handel holds Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law from Harvard Law School.
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Jonathan Handel is listed with skills including New Media, Entertainment, Digital Media, Film, Journalism, Television, Entertainment Law, and Editing.
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