Profile: Patric M. Verrone/ President of the Writers Guild of America, West.

Patric M. Verrone is a television writer, attorney, and President of the Writers Guild of America, West. In 2007-08, he led that union through the 100 day strike that won writers a contract covering the Internet. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College where he was an officer of The Harvard Lampoon and earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School after serving as editor of the Boston College Law Review. For ten years he was issue editor of the Annual Entertainment Law issue of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine. He has been an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School and UCLA Extension. His television writing credits include The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Larry Sanders Show, The Critic, The Simpsons, Pinky and the Brain, Rugrats, Muppets Tonight!, Class of 3000, and Futurama. Currently, he is supervising the writing and production of 15 television pilots for Machinima.com. He has been nominated for eight Emmys in four categories and won two. He has also received an Environmental Media Award, an ASIFA Annie Award, a People’s Choice Award nomination, the Writers Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Animation Writing, and the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel’s Labor Counsel of the Year Award. He was #75 in last year’s Time Magazine poll of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He has spoken all over the world on media, entertainment, and law including testimony before the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, and the California state legislature. You can email your questions to 123FilmEasy@Gmail.com and we'll answer them "LIVE ON AIR." Link: www.123FilmEasy.com. Follow us on "Twitter" at https://twitter.com/123Film.