NEWHOUSE PORTER HUBBARD & HAWLEY

A Professional Corporation

Newhouse Porter Hubbard represents acclaimed directors, writers, producers, editors, production designers and other high-level artists and executives in animation, live action, and the digital production field. The firm provides outside general counsel to a select group of premiere independent animation studios as well as working with entrepreneurs and new ventures in connection with digital production and internet business opportunities. Additionally, the firm supports clients in video game, electronic and print media, computer software, merchandising, internet and other licensing transactions.

Nancy Newhouse Porter

Co-Founder & Principal

Nancy Newhouse Porter co-founded the firm in 2002 and built its animation practice, which began in 1991 when she represented John Lasseter as director of Toy Story. Before private practice, she was a business affairs executive at The Disney Channel and a member of the senior executive team at Shelley Duvall's Think Entertainment.

J.D., UCLA School of Law. B.A., University of Southern California, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.


Kristie Hubbard

Co-Founder

Kristie Hubbard is a founding partner of the firm. She represents clients in the development, production, financing and distribution of feature films and television, including directors, animators and other artists in feature animation, and represents authors in book publishing and licensing.

J.D., University of Southern California. M.A. and B.A., Stanford University.


Lucas Hawley

Partner

Lucas Hawley joined the firm as a law clerk after graduating from UCLA School of Law, became an associate, and is now a partner. At UCLA he was an editor of the Entertainment Law Review, and during law school he interned in Business Affairs at William Morris Endeavor.

J.D., UCLA School of Law. B.A., University of Arizona.

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