Kelsey Schulz hones her unique skillset of business sense, a law firm background, and in-house studio experience to provide personalized legal services in television, new media, and film.   

Kelsey counsels content-creating companies and studios like Entertainment One, Kin Community, and Our House Media on all aspects of entertainment business, including development, production, and distribution legal as well as corporate, business, and other intellectual property matters. Kelsey also works with companies like Dragon Horse Publishing, who are adapting books and other media to the big and small screens.  

She represents independent powerhouse producers and filmmakers including Emmy and Webby award-winning producer and author, Angela Tucker, three-time regional Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, Bryan Tucker, and the dynamo producing pair, Melissa Dale-Berry and Executive Producer of Flying Wild Alaska and Life Below Zero Tommy Baynard. 

Prior to founding Schulz Entertainment Law PC, Kelsey ran in-house business and legal affairs for Kin Community, served as Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for Kew Media Group, worked as Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for a Warner Media Company, and was an Associate in the distinguished entertainment group of the law firm, Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP. 

She has spent her career helping clients structure, negotiate, and draft innovative deals in television and navigate the legal landscape through all stages of content creation. Distinctively, Kelsey operates her personal practice and the firm with quality, authenticity, and kindness as the north stars. Her counsel extends beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to legal services, pushing deals into new frontiers to achieve the most desirable outcomes for her clients.  

Kelsey is wife to producer-writer-director and Amazon executive, Dick Schulz and devoted parent to Emerson and Jonah. She spends time working with the southern California organization, Chrysalis, which serves people navigating barriers to the workforce by offering a job-readiness program, individualized supportive services, and paid transitional employment. Kelsey is committed to eliminating systemic barriers for under-served individuals and groups in her community. Those activities carry through to her work, the clients she represents, and the stories they’re telling.  

• Represented Kin Community in striking and closing novel cable and VOD licensing deals of digital-first series and original partner-series, including:

  — License of 80 episodes of the hit YouTube digital series, Tia Mowry’s Quick Fix and 16 episodes of the original series, It’s Me, Julissa with Julissa Bermudez to Cleo TV

  —Multi-series cable licensing deal with Aspire, including the launch of the original series, Just Angela featuring actress and entrepreneur, Angela Simmons, and syndication of Side by Side with Malika and Khadijah, the famous Haqq sisters

  — License deal with Philo to launch Philo’s first original series, Boss Moves featuring the iconic Love and Hip Hop Atlanta cast member Rasheeda Frost

  — Multi-series license of Tia Mowry’s Comfort Kitchen, Tia Mowry’s Quick Fix, Hello Hunnay with Jeannie Mai Jenkins, and All Things Adrienne with Adrienne Houghton among other Kin series to Chicken Soup for the Soul in connection with its AVOD launch

• Rendered production legal services on the Sundance Now scripted series This Close written by and starring deaf creators, Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, which prioritized disability representation both in front of and behind the camera

• Closed agreements to integrate brands like Dyson, Amazon Fresh, Credit Karma, Ally Bank, Slim Jim, Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black, Hello Fresh, Thrive Market, Honest Co., Poise, Aveeno, Benjamin Moore Paint, Ancestry, The Knot, Jimmy Dean, Etsy, Ritual, Wondery, among others into client’s series

• Worked with department head, Saul Friedman, to establish an unscripted television department for Warner Media company, Super Deluxe

• Provided legal services for Warner Media company, Super Deluxe, on groundbreaking Internet series like Vic Berger Presents, Joanne The Scammer, and Cheap Thrills featuring Tobasko Sweet

• Provided full-scope production legal services on notable, long running series including:

  -Ridiculousness hosted by Rob Dyrdek and running new episodes for over a decade on MTV

  -Dance Moms, iconic eight-season series on Lifetime

  -Expedition Unknown, the distinguished world-travel, adventure series on Discovery

  -Finding Bigfoot, the twelve-season investigative search series

• Closed development deals on behalf of Ping Pong Productions with Dr. Sandra Lee for the smash hit, Dr. Pimple Popper

• Performed on the 3-person litigation team representing Equals Three in the notable case, Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., winning opposition to a motion for partial summary judgment and achieving a written opinion of critical importance from the Ninth Circuit in favor of fair-use

Affiliations

Member, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Entertainment Section

Board Member, Barristers - Beverly Hills Bar Association

Member, Kaleidoscope (Chrysalis)

Bar Admission

State Bar of California

Education

J.D., Pepperdine School of Law

Palmer Center Certificate in Entrepreneurship and the Law – Intellectual Property, Entertainment and Technology Track

B.A., Elon University