{"id":109540,"date":"2025-03-02T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/02\/a-hollywood-awards-show-for-lawyers-that-isnt-a-deposition\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:37:40","slug":"a-hollywood-awards-show-for-lawyers-that-isnt-a-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/02\/a-hollywood-awards-show-for-lawyers-that-isnt-a-deposition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hollywood Awards Show For Lawyers (That Isn\u2019t A Deposition)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before law school sucks their dreams away under a mountain of student debt, many students picture themselves getting into the entertainment industry. Famous clients! Exciting legal problems! Hollywood living! <\/p>\n

Then everyone ends up drafting venue clauses for regional office supply distributors.<\/p>\n

But SOME lawyers do make it into the entertainment game and those lawyers belong to the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel<\/a> (AMEC). Industry veterans Arnold Peter, Bill Simon, and Peter Winkler, founded AMEC in 2005 after realizing that while there were plenty of organizations supporting and honoring the achievements of other industry professionals \u2014 from actors to costume designers \u2014 no one recognized the in-house counsels and business affairs attorneys.<\/p>\n

Won\u2019t someone please<\/em> think of the lawyers?<\/p>\n

From those beginnings, AMEC grew its membership to over 14,000 legal and business executives across the major entertainment, media, and technology companies.<\/p>\n

Each year, AMEC hosts the Counsel of the Year Awards, a soir\u00e9e that celebrates the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of media and entertainment law. This year\u2019s event is extra special as it marks AMEC\u2019s 20th anniversary. Originally slated for January, the ceremony was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and is now set to dazzle attendees on Thursday, March 6, 2025, at the Westdrift Manhattan Beach at 7. We\u2019ll be there as one of this year\u2019s honorees too.<\/p>\n

However, if you haven\u2019t secured your ticket yet, you\u2019re out of luck \u2014 the event is officially sold out. But don\u2019t despair; limited sponsorship opportunities are still up for grabs for those eager to support the cause.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post A Hollywood Awards Show For Lawyers (That Isn\u2019t A Deposition)<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Before law school sucks their dreams away under a mountain of student debt, many students picture themselves getting into the entertainment industry. Famous clients! Exciting legal problems! Hollywood living! <\/p>\n

Then everyone ends up drafting venue clauses for regional office supply distributors.<\/p>\n

But SOME lawyers do make it into the entertainment game and those lawyers belong to the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel<\/a> (AMEC). Industry veterans Arnold Peter, Bill Simon, and Peter Winkler, founded AMEC in 2005 after realizing that while there were plenty of organizations supporting and honoring the achievements of other industry professionals \u2014 from actors to costume designers \u2014 no one recognized the in-house counsels and business affairs attorneys.<\/p>\n

Won\u2019t someone please<\/em> think of the lawyers?<\/p>\n

From those beginnings, AMEC grew its membership to over 14,000 legal and business executives across the major entertainment, media, and technology companies.<\/p>\n

Each year, AMEC hosts the Counsel of the Year Awards, a soir\u00e9e that celebrates the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of media and entertainment law. This year\u2019s event is extra special as it marks AMEC\u2019s 20th anniversary. Originally slated for January, the ceremony was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and is now set to dazzle attendees on Thursday, March 6, 2025, at the Westdrift Manhattan Beach at 7. We\u2019ll be there as one of this year\u2019s honorees too.<\/p>\n

However, if you haven\u2019t secured your ticket yet, you\u2019re out of luck \u2014 the event is officially sold out. But don\u2019t despair; limited sponsorship opportunities are still up for grabs for those eager to support the cause.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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