Legal Consultant Resume Example

Senior Legal Executive Versatile and effective attorney with a proven track record of achievement as well as a true passion for all aspects of the entertainment/media industry and its associated legal components. Areas of strength include successful negotiations and clients with innovative solutions to challenging situations. Currently looking for an opportunity to transition prior experience and success within the entertainment industry to a challenging in-house counsel position.

• Trademarks & Copyrights - Provide advice to clients regarding trademark applications, including for brand names, application of trademarks and viability of proposed trademarks; perform preliminary trademark searches and review professional searches.  Collaborated with outside counsel to protect key Harpo trademarks. Advised Publicity on press releases, press inquiries, media plans and troubleshooting.
• Television Production -  Provide comprehensive advice to clients on television projects, including for financing, production and distribution; draft all related documents and agreements; work with clients on feature television shows. Advised and counsel award-winning producers, and  start-up productions regarding entertainment law matters and business issues.  Advised Affiliate Relations executives in solving broadcast/station concerns and issues with programming.    Areas of expertise include publishing, production, and personal management agreements.
• Reality Television - Counsel clients with production and rendering of talent services in connection with reality television programming.  Drafted and effectively negotiated comprehensive talent and production agreements; cultivate key relationships with network executives as part of effort to land client appearances on reality television shows research, case correspondence, depositions as well as drafting and negotiating settlement agreements.
• Intellectual Property & Real Estate - Using  expansive legal knowledge to advise clients litigating cases. Drafted pleadings, motion practice, research, case correspondence, depositions as well as drafting and negotiating settlement agreements. 

• Syndicated Television Programs (unscripted/talk) “The Oprah Winfrey Show” “The Dr. Phil Show” “The Dr. Oz Show” “The Nate Berkus Show”
• Competition Series (unscripted/reality) “Oprah's Big Give” – an 8 part primetime series featuring unknown participants who traveled to 8 different cities competing to see who could give away the most money and in-kind services to various communities. "America, Are You Normal?" – game show featuring contestants answering a series of questions about what a surveyed audience considered normal which aired on the OWN Network.
• Documentaries/Docu-series  "Behind the Scenes of the 25th Season of The Oprah Winfrey Show" - a 25 episode series that chronicled staffers as they put together the last season of production of "The Oprah Winfrey Show"  "Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa" a one hour documentary which chronicled the building of the Academy and the selection of the first class of students  "The First Graduating Class of Oprah's Leadership Academy" which focused on the first graduating class of the Leadership Academy (pre-production) "Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball" – a documentary which focused on honoring 25 famous Black women from the arts, education, sports and politics Business Affairs liaison to the producers of two PBS docu-series in which Oprah participated:   "African American Lives" and "Finding Oprah's Roots" which traced the ancestry of Oprah Winfrey and several other prominent African Americans
• Other Unscripted Series (non-talk show format)  "Oprah's Master Class" – an 8 part series focused on famous individuals reflecting on their careers and life philosophies  "In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman" – an 8 part reality series focused on a sex therapist helping couples overcome intimacy issues (aired on the OWN Network).
• Cable Network Series:  “Kathy” – a 12 part talk/variety series on BRAVO