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Education | Harvard University (AB, JD) |
Jonathan Handel is an American entertainment lawyer, journalist, author and commentator. [1] [2] [3]
Handel is an expert on entertainment labor, having reported extensively on the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, DGA, IATSE and other unions. [4] He has previously served as outside Special Counsel to SAG-AFTRA, and on the legal staff of the WGA. [5] [6] [7] [8] [2]
Prior to this, he was a journalist at The Hollywood Reporter, and has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Variety and Puck. [9] [10] [11] Additionally, he has authored five books and is an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School and lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law. [12] [13]
He currently practices entertainment and technology law at TroyGould and serves as an executive at WIO. [14] [15]
Handel studied Applied Mathematics, graduating from Harvard College in 1982, and Harvard Law School in 1990. [16] [17]
He began his law career clerking for Judge Irving Goldberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Dallas, TX. [18]
In 1991, he was selected to serve as a federal associate independent counsel to investigate alleged White House political misconduct related to the search of then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's passport files. [19] [2] [20] [21]
In the months prior to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Handel began publishing a series of blogs on the Huffington Post, leading to him becoming recognized as an expert regarding Hollywood unions. [2] [22] [23] [24]
From 2010 to 2020, Handel was a journalist at The Hollywood Reporter. [25] [26]
In 2020, he was appointed as outside Special Counsel to SAG-AFTRA. [8]
As of 2022, Handel serves as an executive at WIO, an entertainment software company. [27] [28] [29]
Handel regularly provides legal analysis for media outlets such as The New York Times , BBC, Reuters, NBC, CNN, ABC and CBS. [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37]
Handel is an expert on entertainment royalties, having authored the only book on residuals. [38] [39] [40]
Handel is the son of late sociologist Gerald S. Handel.
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