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Michele Po

Michele Po

Paralegal

Los Angeles, CA
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ENTERTAINMENT PARALEGAL with more than fourteen years of experience in the industry. Areas of expertise include: contract drafting, rights management, contract review, analysis, and administration. Superb skills in project management, research and administration of deadlines. Professional in all interactions and maintains confidential information. Extremely proficient in business software applications, including MS Office suite. Highly skilled writer, communicator and researcher. Exceptional attention to detail, multi-tasker, and self-motivated team player.

Experience

2016 Dec - Present
Paralegal
Vulcan Productions, Inc. / Seattle

*Seasoned Remote Worker: Worked remotely from home in Los Angeles for Seattle based Media company for the past three years

*Extremely motivated self-starter, life-long continual learner
*Self-taught/Experienced-based Paralegal skills

• Contract drafting: Responsible for creating near all initial drafts of legal agreements such as licenses, independent contractor, development, assignment, non-disclosure, NDAs, and sponsorship agreements as needed and under the supervision of legal counsel
• Identify Rights restrictions and manage all rights information for documentary films and programming from extremely complex and intricate distribution deals
• Enter, track, and maintain all relevant rights information in a database
• Field all rights inquires/requests and advise other business groups on potential rights restrictions on licensing out re-purposed footage already owned thereby increasing revenue to the company
• Create contract summaries and rights summary documents as needed
• Provide lead counsel with research and analysis of executed contracts for drafting purposes and contract polishing
2015 Apr - 2016 Jul
Rights Manager
The Tennis Channel, Inc. / Santa Monica
• Analyzed and reviewed all company agreements for Rights restrictions and maintained a Rights database
• Maintained option calendar of contract expirations and option pick-up dates for third-party vendors, independent contractors, distribution deals and employee contracts
• Tracked music cue sheets for original productions and submitted cue sheets reports to music societies
• Review all original programming production binders for:
- Material, Appearance and Location releases
- Completed Final Edit Report and Cue Sheets
- Invoices for any additional clearance fees incurred
2007 Mar - 2014 Jul
Legal Assistant, Distribution-Legal
A&E Networks / Los Angeles
-Executive Assistant to VP, Distribution Counsel as well as Legal Assistant to entire legal team
-Key person in massive affiliate contract renewal effort (650 agreements in a 6 month period) generating over $1.1 billion in new revenue
-Processed, organized, and tracked all legal documents pertaining to Distribution deals; maintained legal department files (paper & electronic) and individual attorney binders
-Prioritized calendar for VP, resulting in higher productivity and better time management for the executive.
-Prepared expense reports, processed invoices, made travel arrangements, drafted correspondence and provided research for legal team
-Managed On-Going Departmental Processes: end-of-year budgetary re-classifications and accruals for legal department, certifications for closed-captioning and children’s programming, entity maintenance process; generated satellite reports, and assisted with collections process for delinquent affiliates
2004 Jan - 2006 Aug
Executive Assistant to CMO
Hallmark Channel / Studio City
-Prioritized busy calendar, made frequent travel arrangements, drafted correspondence, prepared expense reports, and offsite planning – for busy bi-coastal executive resulting in a increased productivity for the CMO
-Managed, scheduled, and prepared materials for CMO's industry boards involvement
-Outstanding PowerPoint presentations
-Deemed “an elegant calm in the face of a storm” by CMO

Education

Northwestern University
BA / Economics

4 year liberal arts university in Evanston, IL. Major in Economics. Pre-med.

Emerson College
MA / Film & Television Production, Visual Media Arts

Master's Degree Program in Film and Television Production, all aspects from directing to producing to writing screenplays.

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