Hollywood Dealmaking Negotiating Talent Agreements

Dina Appleton is the Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs and corporate counsel at Writers and Artists Agency, a talent and literary agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles. She is a member of both the Law Society of Upper Canada and the California State Bar and serves on the Beverly Hills Bar Association's Entertainment Law Executive Committee and the USC Entertainment Symposium's Planning Committee. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband. Daniel ("Donny") Yankelevits is an Executive in the Business and Legal Affairs Group at Dreamworks SKG. He has served as Director of Business Affairs at Home Box Office and at New Line Cinema, and as co-chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Entertainment Section and the USC Entertainment Law Symposium Syllabus Committee. He also teaches a course entitled "Negotiating Talent Agreements" at UCLA Extension. Donny is a graduate of Harvard Law School and resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.Appleton, Dina is the author of 'Hollywood Dealmaking Negotiating Talent Agreements' with ISBN 9781581152289 and ISBN 1581152280.