A Career Built Inside the Industry.

Founded boutique entertainment law practice serving creators, independent producers, musicians, digital media companies, and entertainment businesses.

• Established practice focused exclusively on entertainment and creative industries
• Represented talent, producers, and creative businesses across film, TV, music, and digital media
• Developed specialized practice area for creator economy and digital media clients
• Expanded into adult creator legal services with confidential, professional counsel

Served as production counsel on multiple concurrent theatrical and streaming productions, structuring, drafting, and negotiating above-the-line and below-the-line agreements from first deal memo through final execution under tight release deadlines.

• Structured, drafted, and negotiated above-the-line talent agreements — director, producer, writer, and cast — across multiple concurrent theatrical and streaming productions, managing overlapping negotiations under tight release deadlines
• Served as one of 2–3 production attorneys staffed per title, handling ATL/BTL agreements from first deal memo through final execution on The First Omen, Lilo & Stitch (~$150M+ budget), Tiger, and Sea Lions of the Galapagos
• Closed 75+ commercial agreements in 2 years as production counsel — spanning production services, vendor, equipment rental, lease, location/venue, payroll, product loan, and product placement agreements — across multiple concurrent theatrical and streaming productions
• Managed chain-of-title and resolved complex rights issues across 4 workstreams: copyright review, rights option/purchase and acquisition of literary and third-party IP, true-story and life-rights clearance (publicity, privacy, and defamation risk), and quitclaims/assignments
• Advised Tax and Finance on corporate structuring across the production slate, evaluating domestic vs. international entity options project by project

A competitive in-house training track that placed Kai directly inside Studio Legal Affairs — working across multiple divisions on live theatrical and streaming productions from day one, and culminating in a promotion to Counsel.

• Earned a spot in the inaugural cohort of Disney's D-LIFT (Lawyers in Film Training) program, a 12-month, competitive in-house training track within Studio Legal Affairs
• Supported attorneys across 4+ Studio Legal teams — 20th Century Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and others — on research, proofreading, and drafting for theatrical, streaming, and original content
• Drafted and redlined above-the-line talent agreements with Studio Legal attorneys across the same 4+ teams, gaining early experience on above-the-line/below-the-line deal structures ahead of promotion to Counsel
• Managed the application and audit process that secured transferable tax credits for Walt Disney Studios' 'Once Upon a Studio' short film

Supported Marvel Studios' in-house attorneys on business and legal affairs matters across the studio's feature film slate — spanning production, development, distribution, financing, and marketing.

• Drafted talent, VFX, location, product loan, and co-promotional agreements for Marvel motion pictures
• Prepared legal memoranda, deal summaries, and rights charts
• Reviewed contracts and advised on entertainment, corporate, and IP matters
• Supported legal affairs across production, development, distribution, financing, and marketing