Peter Dekom

Peter Dekom practices law in Los Angeles, California. His clients have included Hollywood notables George Lucas, Paul Haggis, Keenen Ivory Wayans, John Travolta, Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, Andy Davis, Robert Towne and Larry Gordon, as well as corporate clients Sears, Roebuck & Co., Pacific Telesis and JVC. He's been listed in Forbes among the top 100 lawyers in the U.S. and in Premiere Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful people in Hollywood.

Mr. Dekom has been a management/marketing consultant and entrepreneur in the fields of entertainment, Internet, and telecommunications. He was instrumental in creating, writing and implementing legislation to encourage film and television production - since used as a model structure for many state film incentive plans - and supervised the film loan program portion of that incentive structure.

He's served on the board of directors of Imagine Films Entertainment, was a board member of Will Vinton Studios and Cinebase Software, a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Academy Foundation, on the Board of Directors, Chairman (now Emeritus) of American Cinematheque, on the Advisory Board of the Shanghai International Film Festival, and the Board of Governors for America Bar Assn.'s Sports and Entertainment Law Section.

Mr. Dekom was also Entertainment Lawyer of the Year in 1994 (Beverly Hills Bar Association), and 2004 (Century City Bar Association). The Family Assistance Program named him Man of the Year in 1992 for his work with the homeless. Author of dozens of scholarly articles, Mr. Dekom also co-authored the book Not on My Watch; Hollywood vs. the Future (New Millennium Publishing, 2003) with Peter Sealey. He's served as an adjunct professor in the UCLA Film School, a lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a featured speaker at film festivals, corporations, universities and bar associations all over the world.

Follow Peter on his daily socioeconomic-political blog: unshred.blogspot.com