The Lawyer…
Richard provides legal and business services to various Canadian and international clients in all aspects of the entertainment business. Some of the areas he works in include: television, feature film and new media project development, financing, pre-production, production, distribution, advising and opining on copyright and insurance issues; advising on music legal issues including publishing, acquisition, licensing and royalty management, and executive management. In the realm of general corporate-commercial legal matters, his services include corporate structuring, purchase and sale transactions, employment, branding, leasing, software and trademark support and other general business law matters. In addition to the foregoing, Richard owns Entente Entertainment Inc., a Canadian corporation specializing in the management, production and distribution of Canadian television and film projects.
The Producer…
In addition to his law practice, Richard has acted as an executive producer on various projects including the feature film “One Week”, awarded a gala presentation at TIFF 2008, and successfully released with a Canadian box office exceeding $1,250,000; the 2010 feature film “Score: A Hockey Musical”, which was the opening film at TIFF in 2010; and, most recently, Michael McGowan’s “Still Mine”, a drama starring two Academy Award-nominated actors – James Cromwell (“Babe”) and Geneviève Bujold (“Anne of the Thousand Days”) – which premiered as a special presentation at TIFF in 2012 and was released worldwide in 2013 to achieve a worldwide box office in the range of $2,000,000 to date. In the documentary area, Richard acted as an executive producer on two theatrical feature docs "Melody Makers" and “StarMen” (aka “Athenaeum Enterprise” and “A History of Receding Horizons”).
Richard has had numerous theatrical and documentary credits, only a portion of which are noted on IMBD including a credit on the Academy Award-nominated documentary “Prisoner of Paradise”.
In addition to his business and professional interests, Richard has spoken at various conferences and workshops, and in 2004 Richard was the lead instructor of Law 326 (Entertainment Law) at the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University and is presently an instructor of Entertainment Law at Centennial College’s post-grad television & film business (producer) course.
