Thursday, Jan 26th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
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This presentation will discuss the unique nature of the video game industry and how contract negotiation and dispute resolution is handled accordingly.
Dorian Slater Thomas practices in the firm's Interactive Entertainment Group and Advertising,
Marketing & Public Relations Group, where he handles a wide range of transactional work for
prominent agencies, brands, platforms, developers, publishers and individual creative talent. The
National Law Journal's 2022 Trailblazers list included him for Sports/Gaming/Entertainment
Law and Variety included him as an "Up Next" honoree in their 2022 Legal Impact Report. The
Legal 500 listed him as a "Rising Star" in advertising and marketing for 2021.
Mr. Thomas has experience advising some of the world's best-known gaming and technology
companies, including developers and publishers, in the interactive entertainment industry. He
has negotiated and drafted development/publishing agreements, licensing agreements, software
(SasS) agreements, and operational agreements across various digital media platforms.
Mr. Thomas also negotiates and drafts advertising and marketing services agreements, whether
in the interactive entertainment industry or otherwise. He regularly handles creative services
agreements, talent, spokesperson, endorsement and influencer agreements, sponsorship
and promotion agreements, branded entertainment agreements, agency and management
agreements, production agreements, license agreements and releases.