Christian Entertainment Law

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Proverbs 14:16a

Dr. Joel W. Bunkowske, Esq.

Dr. Joel W. Bunkowske, Esq. 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 most successful Christian filmmakers. Bunkowske Law has worked with organizations, films, and music projects reaching over one billion people worldwide for Jesus Christ.

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Bunkowske Law is a conservative Christian law firm that only represents Christians who share the Gospel of Jesus Christ through mass media and agree to be honest and ethical, and adhere to the inspired, infallible, authoritative Word of God as written in the Bible in all aspects of their life and business.

(See Bunkowske Law Statement of Faith)

Helping Christians produce, distribute, and market Hollywood quality films that advance The Great Commission of Jesus Christ.

Bunkowske Law strategically partners with individuals and companies that have worked on or marketed the most successful Christian films of all time including The Passion of the Christ, I Can Only Imagine, The Chosen, His Only Son, Overcomer, War Room, Courageous, Fireproof, Facing The Giants, The Dead Sea Squirrels, God’s Not Dead, Blue Miracle, Soul Surfer, Risen, Miracles from Heaven, The Star, Son of God, Heaven Is For Real, The Nativity Story, Risen, Woodlawn, Do You Believe, 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 DaVinci Code, Left Behind, and many more.

Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord. Zechariah 4:6 

Dr. Bunkowske is an award-winning attorney with over 30 years of experience in the Christian music, TV and film industries. He 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.

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 venture capital deal structuring for film and record companies and a $180 million foundation. Before becoming an entertainment attorney, Dr. Bunkowske worked as a broadcast television director and producer for seven years with weekly programs on ABC and FOX in Indiana. 

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 given hundreds of seminars and presentations for managers and HR professionals from many fortune 500 companies including a full year training Ford Motor Company. He has trained over 20,000 business managers and HR professionals in most of the major US 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.

Dr. Bunkowske holds B.A., M.B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees, and is Harvard trained in Organizational Leadership, Educational Leadership, and Ethics.

Integrity guides decent people, but hypocrisy leads treacherous people to ruin. Proverbs 11:3

“Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.” Matthew 19:26

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Bunkowske Law Statement of Faith

As a traditional conservative Christian organization, Bunkowske Law will not be able to represent people who hold beliefs or participate in conduct in conflict with this 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. Christians must adhere to the Word of God in all aspects of their life.

2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

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. 

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. 

5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life. 

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. 

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. 

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.


*Adapted from Samaritan’s Purse Statement of Faith. No claim of copyright is attached to this Statement of Faith.