Jessica Kantor
TEL: 310.228.2294FAX: 310.228.3934
Century City
1901 Avenue of the Stars
Suite 1600
Los Angeles, CA 90067
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Jessica Kantor
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Jessica Kantor is an associate in the Entertainment, Media and Technology Practice Group in the firm’s Century City office.
Areas of Practice
Ms. Kantor works on projects for studios, independent production companies, advertising agencies, and other entertainment-related entities in various aspects of motion picture and television development, production and distribution, in the acquisition of intellectual property rights and the development, finance, production, distribution, and ancillary exploitation of entertainment content.
Prior to joining Sheppard Mullin, Ms. Kantor served as Executive Director of the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (AMEC) and worked as a transactional attorney at an entertainment boutique. Prior to her admission to the bar, Ms. Kantor had an extensive background in the arts working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Christie’s Auction House in Beverly Hills, the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. While at Loyola Law School, Ms. Kantor founded the Art Law Society.
Education
- J.D., Loyola Law School, 2009
- B.A., University of California Los Angeles, 2005, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude
Clerkships
- Extern to the Honorable Judith C. Chirlin, Los Angeles Superior Court
Admissions
- California
Languages
- Farsi
- French
- Hebrew
- Italian
Memberships
- Ms. Kantor is active in several local and national non-profit organizations in Los Angeles, and serves as the Co-Chair of the Women Who Lead Steering Committee of The Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (AMEC), and is an executive board member of the LEV Foundation.
Articles
Art Law Gallery Blog Articles
- "'Over the River' and into the Legal Fray: Christo and Jeanne-Claude," January 12, 2011
- "I-Arts" Viva La Revolución Digital," December 8, 2010
- "California AB 2765 Stops the Clock for Recovery of Wrongfully Appropriated Works: The Ramifications for Museums, Owners, Collectors and the Art Trade," October 11, 2010