Juliette Youngblood

Juliette Youngblood, Entertainment Attorney and President, Youngblood Group PC

Juliette Youngblood’s career has encompassed an impressive cross-section of Hollywood’s award-winning production companies, networks and studios including Paramount Pictures and CBS Corporation

Websites: https://www.julietteyoungblood.com/

https://www.juliette-youngblood.com/

Awards/Accolades:

Juliette Youngblood was named 2010 Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Century City Bar Association

Youngblood Group has received the 2015 U.S. News - Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” ranking from US News and World Report

Martindale Hubbell has selected Juliette Youngblood for the 2016 Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, which is exclusive to lawyers who have achieved the highest possible rating in both Legal Ability and Ethical Standards. Less than 5% of women lawyers have been recognized with the AV Preeminent Rating, putting Ms. Youngblood among the elite women in the legal industry

Ms. Youngblood is recognized as a top US attorney by Southern California Super Lawyers; Southern California’s Best Lawyers; Who's Who in American Law, Best Lawyers in America; LawDragon 500; and The Legal 500

She is ranked as a top media and entertainment transactional lawyer by Chambers and Partners

She has received Distinguished Alumni Awards from Loyola Law School and Fitchburg State University

Boards/Memberships:

The Paley Center's Media Council (an invitation-only membership community for high-level industry executives)

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (voting member)

USC-BHBA Institute on Entertainment Law, a 50-year tradition in the industry – has been on the Planning Committee chaired by renowned attorney, Bruce Ramer, for the past eight years – Ms. Youngblood moderated the 2012 Institute's panel, Hitting a Home Run: From YouTube to Riches

Los Angeles Copyright Society (and former Board member)

Women in Film

Notable Projects:

Survivor – thirty-six cycles of the Emmy Award winning tv series

Chop Shop – Juliette Youngblood negotiated a groundbreaking deal with Machinima to bring an original internet action series to the screen, leveraging brand media investments through OMD's Content Collective

Burning Love – Juliette Youngblood negotiated one of the first-ever overall deals to develop original digital media properties with Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films. She recently finalized the continuation of that deal and structured the licensing of tv rights to E! Entertainment Television for Season 1 of the hit Paramount/Red Hour Internet series, Burning Love. Burning Love’s first season won Streamy Awards for Best Comedy Series, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Male Performance: Comedy – Ken Marino, and Best Guest Appearance – Ken Jeong. Juliette Youngblood also completed a multi-season deal with Yahoo! for Burning Love Seasons 2 and 3, along with a first of its kind advertising deal for PHD’ssponsorship of Seasons 2 and 3 of the Burning Love digital series

Viacom's $2.5 billion acquisition of DreamWorks

Nickelodeon's acquisition of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise and the August 2014 theatrical motion picture produced by Michael Bay

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – worked on the contracts for the film directed by Simon West

The Apprentice – multiple cycles of the tv series hosted by Donald Trump

Mission: Impossible – worked on agreements for the film; orchestrated the first digital partnership between a studio and major high-tech firm to promote a specific movie when Apple Computer and Paramount teamed up for an innovative $15 million cross-promotional blitz of the first MI movie. Ms. Youngblood structured Apple's and BMW's ambitious tie-in campaigns for MI and a first of its kind accompanying webisode series on the Internet. These revolutionary deals became the template for many subsequent blockbuster films

Ms. Youngblood structures digital deals with global Internet companies such as Yahoo! and Machinima

Education:

Juliette Youngblood received her JD, cum laude, from Loyola Law School, her MA from the University of Virginia, and her BA and BS, summa cum laude, from Fitchburg State University