Law school isn’t just for churning out lawyers anymore. At least that’s how Michael Waterstone, the innovative Fritz B. Burns dean of Loyola Law School, sees it. In mid-June, Waterstone and Loyola kick off the first courses at LLX, the school’s new executive education offering. LLX works like an extension program for C-suite types, who can take stand-alone courses and pick up basic legal knowledge about everything from contract negotiations to cannabis regulatory issues. The six-week courses are offered on campus and online to a select list of leaders who can earn specialty certification by completing the classes. LLX even delivers, with some courses tailored for on-site visits to reach a company’s top executives.
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USC and UCLA may have their differences — and lately, their share of scandal — but L.A.’s highest profile universities will find common ground Tuesday when they co-sponsor “Truth Be Told? Documentary Films Today.” The panel focuses on the ethics and law around documentaries and brings together some of the city’s top legal minds, including Ziffren Brittenham’s John Branca (co-executor of Michael Jackson’s estate) and entertainment litigator Howard Weitzman of Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert. USC’s Annenberg School supplies a panelist, professor Christopher Smith, while UCLA’s Ziffren Center for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law hosts the event, which will be moderated by Dale Cohen, director of the university’s Documentary Film Legal Clinic.
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Some of the media industry’s smartest behind-the-scenes talent will gather downtown for the Promax Conference, which runs Monday through Thursday at the JW Marriott at L.A. Live. The annual entertainment marketing confab brings together execs from streaming giants, studios and networks. If you’re trying to read the tea leaves on entertainment’s future, you could do worse than hear from top people at Amazon.com Inc. (Mike Benson, head of marketing for Amazon Studios), Hulu (Ryan Crosby, vice president of content marketing), ABC Entertainment (Rebecca Daugherty, executive vice president and head of marketing), Disney Plus (Joe Earley, executive vice president of marketing and operations) and Google’s YouTube (Wes Harris, head of marketing for YouTube Originals), among others.
