Law Practice,
Entertainment & Sports,
Contracts
Oct. 19, 2018
End of the Hollywood handshake deal
Artists who have been living under these oral percentage fee agreements should consider fully researching their rights before they sign anything.
Fredrick S. Levin
Partner
Buckley LLP
Phone: (310) 424-3900
Email: flevin@orrick.com
Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI
Fredrick represents individual and corporate clients in high-stakes complex civil litigation and class actions.
Stop us if you've heard this one before. A young actor, talented but unknown, is trying to break into the business. She is introduced to an entertainment lawyer who tells her he'll handle all of her modest legal work for "free" on the front end, and take a cut of whatever income she eventually earns. It's all done on a handshake basis. Nothing is put in writing.
Few if any lawyers do this outside of the entertainment industry. And in...
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