Susan H. Bodine, Esq.
Partner 

            Partner Susan Bodine is a founding member of the firm and practices in their motion picture and television group.  Ms. Bodine’s clients include prominent and critically acclaimed screenwriters, directors, producers, film production companies, and distributors.  Among her services, Ms. Bodine offers expert counsel on corporate matters, film sales, distribution and financing, as well as production legal issues for domestic and international clients and projects.  Her expertise has led to the sale of numerous films showcased at major film festivals, such as Sundance, Cannes, and Toronto.

With over twenty years of experience in the entertainment field, Ms. Bodine is well established as a leading member of the arts and entertainment community in New York. Although her first work was concentrated within the music industry as an associate at Weiss, Meichbach, & Bomser, she began her distinguished career in motion pictures after leaving that firm and forming her own law partnership, Cowan & Bodine, with Philip Cowan.  One of the first “indie film” lawyers in New York in the Eighties, she established herself through the representation of burgeoning filmmakers in production and finance matters.  Ms. Bodine continued her pioneering spirit through her work for the Creative Capital Foundation, a grant-giving organization benefiting filmmakers, and through the Entertainment Law Circle, a not-for-profit service organization for young attorneys in the entertainment field.  Continuing her community oriented endeavors, she has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Franklin Pierce’s Intellectual Property Summer Institute, one of the top Intellectual Property schools in the U.S.  In addition, Ms. Bodine lectures on motion picture law topics for the M.P.A.A, and at events sponsored by the New York State Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts, the Independent Feature Project, and various law schools and professional associations throughout the country and abroad.

Ms. Bodine joined the Epstein, Levinsohn, & Weinstein partnership, with her law partner Andrew Hurwitz, in 1994.  Ms. Bodine was admitted to the New York Bar in 1982 and received her J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center.