Allison J. Mella is an associate attorney with Costa Abrams & Coate LLP practicing entertainment law including the areas of independent film production, talent representation, talent agency disputes, multimedia law, and general counsel services. 

Ms. Mella’s clients include television and film actors, writers, producers, directors, and production companies.  She has negotiated matters involving Paramount Television’s “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider”, and MTV’s dating show “Next!”.   She recently assisted a private stock images company in a $70 million acquisition by a public company for Costa Abrams & Coate LLP.

Recent speaking engagements include “How To Start and Build an Entertainment Law Practice” in April 2005, and panel moderator for “From Idea to Distribution in 90 Minutes:  True Stories From the Hollywood Trenches” in Park City, Utah during the 2005 Sundance Film Festival . 

Ms. Mella is currently an active member of the organizations Women in Film, Film Independent (f/k/a IFP), and the Beverly Hills Bar Association.  The State Bar of California appointed Ms. Mella to the Board of Governors for the California Young Lawyers Association in 2004.  In 2003, the Beverly Hills Bar Association honored Ms. Mella with the Barrister of the Year “Lawrence J. Blake” Award.   Ms. Mella currently serves on the Barrister Board of Governors for the Beverly Hills Bar Association where she is the Chair of the Workshops Committee.  She is also a former Executive Officer and former chair of both the Networking Committee and the Colleagues Program. 

Ms. Mella received a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude with Distinction, in psychology from Boston University, and a Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law. 

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