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Dr. Joel W. Bunkowske, Esq., JD, MBA. PHD
Dr. Joel W. Bunkowske, Esq., JD, MBA. PHD
joel@bunkowskelaw.com
DR. BUNKOWSKE
Award-winning attorney with over 30 years of experience in corporate and entertainment law.
Dr. Bunkowske is Professor of Law, Business, Ethics and Leadership. He holds B.A., M.B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees and is Harvard-trained in Organizational Leadership, Educational Leadership, and Ethics. He is the recipient of two Excellence in Teaching Awards from the National Society of Leadership & Success.
Dr. Bunkowske is one of the world's most educated, experienced, and successful Christian corporate and entertainment attorneys. He is an award-winning attorney with over 30 years of experience in the Christian music, television, and film industries. Bunkowske Law represents over 100 Christian entertainment clients, including Grammy and Dove award-winning recording artists and many of the world's most successful Christian filmmakers. Bunkowske Law has worked with organizations, films, and music projects with over 20 billion views across social media.
Dr. Bunkowske is the recipient of Grammy, Gold Record, and Dove Awards for his legal work in the music and film industries. He has worked with Academy Award-nominated actors, Grammy and Dove Award-winning recording artists, and legendary producers. His areas of practice include film, television, and music chief of legal and business affairs; film production, finance, and global distribution; contracts, dispute resolution, and University teaching. He also works as a film producer on select feature films.
Dr. Bunkowske has been featured on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, Fox & Friends, Time.com, New York Times.com, USA Today.com, ABC News.com, Huffington Post.com, Cosmopolitan.com, Glamour.com, and many more.
Dr. Bunkowske has worked extensively in the film, music, and television industries, doing finance, distribution, consulting, producing, executive producing, directing, and contracts for hundreds of projects worldwide with Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Disney, Sony, Amazon, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Angel Studios, ABC, NBC, FOX, Capitol Records, EMI, Word Records, and many more. He has done extensive venture capital deal structuring for film companies, record companies, and a $180 million foundation. Before becoming an entertainment attorney, Dr. Bunkowske worked as a broadcast television director and producer with weekly programs on ABC and FOX in Indiana. Dr Bunkowske has over 10,000 hours of television and film production experience.
Dr. Bunkowske is also a Nashville guitarist, songwriter, producer, and former record company owner. His record company in the 1990s was distributed worldwide by Warner Brothers (WEA) where he worked with engineer/producer Eddie Kramer (the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Santana), recording Jimi Hendrix's band members (Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox), Stevie Ray Vaughan's Band (Double Trouble), Buddy Guy, and many more.
Dr. Bunkowske has extensive experience in the field of management and employment law. He has taught at the University level for over 18 years and has given hundreds of seminars and presentations for managers and HR professionals from many Fortune 500 companies, including a full year of training for the Ford Motor Company. He has taught over 30,000 BA and MBA students, business managers, and leaders in most of the major U.S. cities, Puerto Rico and Brazil.
Extensive experience as a CEO has utilized Dr. Bunkowske's strong leadership skills. His background in business, along with his substantive legal and business knowledge makes him an expert in law, business, ethics, and leadership.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Corporate Law
Legal and business affairs
Business strategy
Management
Deal Structuring
Contracts
Film Finance
Film Production
Film Distribution
Venture Capital
Dispute resolution
HONORS-AWARDS
Grammy Award
Dove Awards
Gold Record Award
Excellence in Teaching Awards
Bunkowske Law partners with individuals and companies that have worked on or marketed the most successful Christian films of all time generating billions of dollars at the box office including The Passion of the Christ, I Can Only Imagine, The Chosen, His Only Son, Overcomer, War Room, Courageous, Fireproof, Ben-Hur, God’s Not Dead, Soul Surfer, The Nativity Story, Risen, Woodlawn, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Veggie Tales: Jonah, Veggie Tales: The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything, The Da Vinci Code and many more.
Statement Of Faith
Statement Of Faith
Bunkowske Law clients must agree to the following statement of faith:
1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God revealing the love of God to the world.
1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; John 3:16.
2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Ephesians 4:4-6.
3. We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-4 and 1:29; Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15.
4. We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, we believe that God will reward the righteous with eternal life in heaven, and that He will banish the unrighteous to everlasting punishment in hell.
Luke 24:46-47; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; Ephesians 1:7 and 2:8-9; Titus 3:4-7.
5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life.
John 3:5-8; Acts 1:8 and 4:31; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 5:16-18; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:6-10.
6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment.
1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:11-15.
7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the Church.
1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23.
8. We believe that the ministry of evangelism (sharing and proclaiming the message of salvation only possible by grace through faith in Jesus Christ) and discipleship (helping followers of Christ grow up into maturity in Christ) is a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15; 1 Peter 3:15.
9. We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made for each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.
Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9.
10. We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of evangelism.
Matthew 9:35-38; 22:37-39, and 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15 and 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10; Colossians 2:6-10; 1 Peter 3:15.
11. We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellowmen.
Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10.
12. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person a biological male or female. These two distinct but complementary sexes together reflect the image and likeness of God. Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of God’s merciful design and creative order.
Genesis 1:26-27;1 Corinthians 6:9; Deuteronomy 22:5.
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