VenueConnect 2019

Gerald "Jerry" Hathaway
Partner
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP


Jerry Hathaway has been practicing law for 40 years, and he is currently a partner of Drinker Biddle & Reath in New York City. Jerry paid his way through college and law school by working as a stagehand at every venue in Philadelphia (yes, every) through the hiring hall of IATSE Local 8, and he says that he initially took a cut in pay when he became a lawyer. A former IA shop steward (a job that fell to the Property Master) at Philadelphia’s Robin Hood Dell (now the Dell Music Center), Jerry became a lawyer for management in labor and employment matters, representing many entertainment and media companies over the years, including NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Disney, CBS, Lincoln Center, The Apollo Theater, The Public Theater, the Walnut Street Theatre, the New York Daily News, Refinery29, ICM Partners, Ford Models, and others. Jerry says he has since made up the wage differential after practicing law for so long, but he does look with envy at the earnings of the house crew at Carnegie Hall.

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