Jay Shanker

Jay Shanker is a veteran entertainment industry attorney whose practice encompasses a wide array of film, television, theater, music, live entertainment, new media, fine arts, publishing and sports industry transactions for individual and corporate clients, including both public and private companies, across the U.S. and abroad. His clients and their projects have over the years garnered prestigious international awards in every major creative media, including Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Clio nominations and awards. A graduate of Yale and the NYU School of Law, Mr. Shanker has practiced law in Los Angeles since 1981, and in 2005 relocated his practice to Oklahoma City, where he now serves as a director at Crowe & Dunlevy, a national law firm based in Oklahoma City, with additional offices in Dallas and Tulsa. He is co-author of "Entertainment Law & Business," the third edition of which was published by Juris in 2013. He was also a contributing editor for "Entertainment Industry Contracts," published by Matthew Bender in 1996 and co-editor of "Law and the Television of the ’80s," published by Oceana in 1982. He has taught courses on entertainment law at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University, and has lectured on entertainment industry legal matters at UCLA, USC and the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles and New York, for the Producers Guild of America, and for the American Bar Association and other leading continuing legal education forums on entertainment law topics. Mr. Shanker has served on the advisory committee of the AFI’s Third Decade Council and was a founding board member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. His achievements have earned him repeated inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television; Entertainment Law – Music). He is admitted to practice in California, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia. Learn more about the author at www.eg2el.com