Performers' union SAG-AFTRA has engaged entertainment/technology attorney and journalist Jonathan Handel as an outside Special Counsel to the union, to work on special projects and additional issues."[We] look forward to engaging his talents on a number of crucial issues and projects," said SAG-AFTRA chief operating officer and general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland in a released statement.
As part of the agreement, the union is also acquiring an app that Handel wrote to help members navigate their health insurance options. “This is a time of enormous economic and technological challenge for all SAG-AFTRA members,” Handel said in a released statement. “Working- and middle-class people are under assault in this country, and our industries are no different.
Handel received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He was active in LGBTQ and party politics and wrote a local civil rights ordinance in addition to serving on various city commissions. He also served as a federal associate independent counsel investigating alleged White House political misconduct, and was a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, legal staff, before transitioning to entertainment and technology transactional law.
The author of four books on entertainment labor, Handel is currently on the adjunct faculty at USC Gould School of Law and Southwestern Law School. Handel is also a member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and an associate member of the Dramatists Guild and the Society of Composers & Lyricists.
jhandel I wonder if he’ll qualify for our health insurance now too?
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