The AMEC, 2010 Advisory Board Press Release

THE ASSOCIATION OF MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT COUNSEL (AMEC) ANNOUNCES 2010 ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

LOS ANGELES, January 27, 2010: The Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (AMEC), the leading trade association serving general counsel and business affairs attorneys, is pleased to announce its 2010 Advisory Board. Legal professionals from a wide cross-section of companies and law firms across the media and entertainment industry have come together to form the Leadership Advisory Board, the Law Firm Advisory Board, and the Emerging Leaders Board, which serve as heart of AMEC.

AMEC’s Leadership Advisory Board consists of in-house counsel and business affairs executives at top media and entertainment companies and organizations. “As the premiere organization of in-house counsel at entertainment and media companies, AMEC has once again put together an outstanding group of industry leaders and peers to lead the organization in 2010,” said board Chair Andy Levin, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer of Clear Channel Communications, Inc. “My fellow board members and I look forward to taking AMEC to new heights.” Joining the Leadership Advisory Board for 2010 are:

Andy Levin, Chair
Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer
Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
Julie Xanders
Assistant General Counsel
West Coast Media
Navine Karim
Senior Associate General Counsel
BET Networks
Charles Stanford
Executive Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel
Crown Media Holdings, Inc.
Keith Kauffman
Senior Vice President, Business Affairs
Clear Channel Radio
Michael Rowles
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Live Nation
Gigi Birchfield
Office Managing Partner, Los Angeles and Co-Global Practice Leader - In-House
Major, Lindsey & Africa
Alexsondra S. Fixmer
Director Business & Legal Affairs
The Tennis Channel, Inc.
Kimberly Deck
Mediator and Factfinder
Jams ADR
Sanjay Sood
Associate Professor of Marketing, Faculty Director, EMMI
UCLA Anderson School of Management

AMEC’s Law Firm Advisory Board consists of attorneys in private practice, specializing in cutting edge entertainment issues at leading law firms across the country. “My colleagues and I thank AMEC for this opportunity to partner with our clients in the entertainment and media industry,” said the board’s Chair, Alan Friel of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP. “As outside counsel to companies represented in the AMEC community, we are thrilled to think of exciting ways to work together outside of the traditional attorney-client relationship.” Joining the Law Firm Advisory Board for 2010 are:

Alan L. Friel, Chair
Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP
Russell G. Weiss, Chair Emeritus
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Judith C. Dornstein
Law Offices of Judity C. Dornstein, Inc.
Louis A. Craco
Allegaert Berger & Vogel LLP
Richard A. Beyman
Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo
Maria C. Rodriguez
Winston & Strawn, LLP
Stephen H. Kay
Hogan & Hartson
Rami S. Yanni
Greenberg Glusker
Jordan K. Yospe
Manatt Phelps Phillips
Richard Wirthlin
Latham & Watkins LLP
Richard S. Grant
McGuireWoods LLP

AMEC’s Emerging Leaders Board consists of attorneys in private practice, in-house counsel, business affairs executives, and attorneys in non-legal position in entertainment and media companies who have less than five years professional experience, or are under the age of 35. “The Emerging Leaders section is indebted to AMEC for the educational networking and career advancement opportunities it has created for attorneys in the media and entertainment industry,” said Chair of the board Christian Vance, of Fox Television Studios. “Our board looks forward to another year of partnership with our more senior colleagues in advancing the historic mission of AMEC: To support the career development and honor the achievements of in-house counsel and business affairs attorneys at media and entertainment companies.” New to the 2010 Emerging Leaders Board are:

Christian Vance, Chair
Fox Television Studios
Drew Wheeler, Vice Chair
Attorney at Law
Alicia Anderson
Peter, Rubin & Simon, LLP
Jesse Brody
Wildman Harrold LLP
Allan Edmiston
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Lindsay Terris Feldman
Fox Television Studios
Alex Kargher
Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro
Theane Evangelis Kapur
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Joshua Lockman
Latham & Watkins LLP
Joanna Mamey
Screen Actors’ Guild
Erica Stambler
Attorney at Law
Caroline Jasmine Vranca
Yari Film Group

With the help and support of these new board members, AMEC aims to better represent the interests and aspirations of in-house counsel and business affairs attorneys at entertainment and media companies, provide training and career guidance for the unique needs of those individuals, and formally recognize their achievements at the annual Counsel of the Year Awards.

About the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel:
The Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel (AMEC) is the only organization designed to support the career development and honor the achievements of in-house counsel and business affairs attorneys at major entertainment and media companies. AMEC was founded in 2005 by Arnold Peter, a partner at the entertainment boutique law firm of Peter Rubin & Simon and former Vice President of Legal Affairs and Labor Relationships at Universal Studios, Bill Simon, Chair of the Global Media & Entertainment Practice at executive search firm Korn Ferry International and Peter Winkler, long-time global marketing leader of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment & Media Practice and now PwC's Sales & Marketing Leader for Southern California/Phoenix. Five years later, AMEC continues to support the careers of legal professionals in the entertainment industry through key programs including the Media and Entertainment Counsel of the Year Awards; The M/E Insights quarterly newsletter, with a global readership of over 30,000 media, entertainment and communications industry decision makers; and a variety of other continuing education seminars and industry news and information.

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