DAVID ALBERT PIERCE, Managing Member

Practice Areas

General entertainment law, employment and labor law issues in the film and television industry, intellectual property, internet/new technology law, securities law and film finance, clearance and rights issues.

Bar Admissions

California

Memberships

Beverly Hills Bar Association (Entertainment Law Section, Barristers Committee For The Arts)

California Bar Association (Labor and Employment Section)

American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Section)

American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries

Education & Biography

David Albert Pierce is Managing Member of PIERCE LAW GROUP LLP. David predominately represents independent film and television production companies, including some of the most respected companies in Hollywood. David’s production counsel practice is diverse and includes representation and counseling in the areas of entertainment law; employment & labor law issues in the film & TV industry; intellectual property; internet/new media law; securities law/film finance, clearance & rights issues, as well as matters concerning crisis management on the set. David is a frequent lecturer on the legal issues confronting the entertainment industry, and has served as an adjunct professor at UCLA Extension on “Organizing, Financing and Running A Start-Up Entertainment Production Company” for the past 10 years. David is also a frequent lecturer at film festivals around the country. He is a regular columnist for MovieMaker Magazine and is the author of several entertainment law articles.

David earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Cornell Law School with a concentration in Business Law & Regulation. While at Cornell, he was an editor of the Cornell Law and Public Policy Journal and a member of the Entertainment & Sports Law Association. He earned his undergraduate degree with honors from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he majored in Political Science and minored in Business. David is originally from Niagara Falls, New York.

David is admitted to the State Bar of California. He is a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Entertainment Law Section, the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries, the Beverly Hills Bar Association Barristers Committee For The Arts, the Independent Feature Project/West, and the American Film Institute. David is the former Chairman of the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law section, and is a member of the Labor & Employment Law sections of the American Bar Association, and the California Bar Association.