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WWW.T OUROL AW.E DU 69 Touro Law Center graduate Frank DeMartini Class of 1986 has built a thriving career that has allowed him to work with Academy-award-winning and A list celebrities such as Diane Keaton Tommy Lee Jones and Katie Holmes and brought him to film locations around the world including Eastern Europe Southeast Asia India and Brazil. He is currently General Counsel for Millennium Films a position he has held since 2002 and one of seven executives running the company so hes intimately involved in legal and most creative decisions. Plus he produces one movie approximately every 18 months. Throughout his nearly 30 years of practicing law Frank has merged the legal knowledge and skill set he learned at Touro with the energy imagination and innovative spirit of the world of movies and he has earned tremendous professional satisfaction from being able to devote the majority of his time to a combination of creative endeavors and legal analysis. In addition to having represented actors writers producers and directors Frank is a specialist in all aspects of motion picture and TV production from development to financing and distribution. A desire to learn how to effectively strategize and function in the corporate arena so that he could apply that expertise to multiple areas such as music and entertainment two of his life-long passions is what drove Frank to law school in the first place. A legal education is good for a number of things explained Frank. It develops thinking that can help you succeed in the business world. It also offers you instant credibility in any number of business structures. By having a legal education you can use that education to further the needs of business at any level. Embracing his desire to enter the entertainment industry Frank took his legal education with him and moved to California in 1986. Breaking into entertainment in Los Angeles without the help of any relationships and moving cold to a new state and city have been the most challenging parts of my career said Frank. Immediately after passing the bar exam Frank worked for a year at Edwin J. Richards and Associates a small firm in Orange County CA where he practiced insurance defense law. Seeking more challenges and with an eye towards achieving his goal of working in the field of entertainment he decided to launch his own firm and in 1988 Martin DeMartini was born. What began with two lawyers developed through mergers to an agency of 15 attorneys. Nine years later the firm whose business mix was 5050 entertainment and car rental companies disbanded when one of the partners moved back to Missouri. Leveraging the experience and contacts he developed when his agency represented most of the major independent film companies in Hollywood Frank starting moonlighting as a tax lawyer and producing films. He completed his first feature in 1998 called Motel Blue starring Sean Young and Robert Vaughn. After that he made The Alternate with Eric Roberts and Ice-T and then a series of SciFi now SyFy Channel horror flicks. Since then Frank has produced almost 20 films the two biggest being Mad Money with Diane Keaton Queen Latifah Katie Holmes and Ted Danson which grossed nearly 26 million and Mechanic 2 with Jason Statham Jessica Alba and Tommy Lee Jones to be released in late 2015early 2016. Taking Entertainment Law with Martin Silfen confirmed his desire to work in the field of entertainment. Frank also worked closely with Professor Dan Subotnik who taught a series of tax classes Frank was his research assistant and they developed several theories on federal taxation. They kept in touch after graduation for years to discuss tax issues together. My education in entertainment and tax have helped me tremendously. At this point I consider myself to be one of the few tax lawyers practicing in entertainment. While at Millennium Films we have developed a number of strategies to lessen the tax burden on the company through use of corporate structures at both the international and domestic level. Franks strong music background has also served him well in his career. He was trained in jazz trumpet and minored in classical guitar at Syracuse University where he earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science in 1983 and a minor concentration in music history and appreciation. He is credited with writing various songs primarily background music in movies which have been published and earn him royalties and continue to feed his artistic side. The Westbury NY native now resides in Los Angeles with his wife they married on May 25 2014 who he met in Thailand on one of his film productions. He greatly values the impact his Touro education and what he learned outside of the classroom has had on his career. He advises Touro students to Learn as much as you can about the real world. The theories taught in law school are only half the game. Frank DeMartini 86General Counsel for Millennium Films A LU M N I S U C C E S S