| Biography:
Bernie Gold has had over 30 years experience handling all aspects of labor
law and labor relations matters in the entertainment industry. His practice
has included work for the three major television networks; the major motion
picture companies; public television stations; pay cable and basic cable services;
leading independent producers of theatrical motion pictures and television programs;
producers of interactive television products; and the Alliance of Motion Picture
and Television Producers.
Bernie drafted, and was one of the negotiators of, the basic provisions of
the Guild contracts governing the production of product for videocassettes and
pay television, and had a major role in explaining those provisions to the industry
and the trade press. He has represented management in a large number of complex
DGA, WGA, SAG and AFTRA arbitrations involving sophisticated issues relating
to residual payments, credits, pension and health contributions, and jurisdictional
questions.
Throughout his career Bernie has played an important role in industry-wide
collective bargaining negotiations. He has represented leading entertainment
companies in the major industry-wide strikes. Bernie also has had extensive
experience regarding equal employment matters, wage and hour questions, and
labor issues arising as a result of sales and mergers.
Prior to opening Proskauer Rose LLP's Los Angeles office in 1979, Bernie had
been with NBC as Vice President, Employee Relations and Law, West Coast. While
at NBC he worked closely on matters involving all of NBC's broadcast unions
including, particularly, the NBC-NABET collective bargaining negotiations.
Bernie has been on the adjunct faculty at UCLA Law School where he taught labor law and a course on the entertainment industry's Guild agreements.
Bernie graduated from the Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations School and
from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.
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