Anthony A. Arther

Anthony A. Arther is the lead attorney of The Anthony Abraham Arther & Associates Law Firm, and founder of Demoshoppers, Labelshoppers, Scriptshoppers and Filmshoppers. Mr. Arther specializes in the following areas of law: Entertainment & Sports; Real Estate; and International Business Transactions. In addition, Mr. Arther is a Director of International Sales and Marketing for CCRE, (www.ccre.co.jp/), a Japanese media company, whose parent company, CCC (www.ccc.co.jp/eng/info/company.html), owns Tsutaya (www.tsutaya.co.jp/index.zhtml), the largest media distribution stores in Japan, and underwrites and produces shows with MTV Japan.

Mr. Arther graduated from New York Law School; and completed part of his legal studies at Temple University Law School in Tokyo, Japan, the only full-time A.B.A. accredited U.S. law school in Japan. He began his career in the Legal Department of PolyGram Holding Company (at that time the world's largest entertainment company). Upon graduation in 1998, Mr. Arther followed the footsteps of his late mentor, Attorney Eugene Bogan (who formerly headed New York's largest full service minority law firm, Lake, Bogan, Lenoir, Thompson and Jones) at his office at 1650 Broadway, Suite 609, New York, NY 10019.

Mr. Arther has worked with some of the industry's top entertainment attorneys, executives and personalities (such as multiplatinum singer, songwriter and actor, Ashanti). He has also passed the exam to be a certified NFL Contract Advisor (representing former NY Jets stars such as Freeman McNeil). Prior to law school, Mr. Arther spent his undergraduate years at Dickinson College; studied abroad in Bologna, Italy, matriculating at Europe's oldest university, Universita di Bologna, and completed secondary school in Barcelona, Spain at School Year Abroad, chartered by the elite boarding schools, Philips Academy, Philips Exeter Academy, and St. Paul's School, his alma mater. Additionally, Mr. Arther is a talented entertainer in his own right. He is an accomplished pianist and a former internationally renowned MC. Mr. Arther is also fluent in both Spanish and Italian, with a working understanding of French and some Japanese.

Recently, Percy Carey of American Hunger had a chance to conduct an interview with Mr. Arther. A transcript of the interview is availble here.