Chad Russo joined Ramo Law PC in 2014 upon his graduation from Loyola Law School Los Angeles, after having worked as an intern for the firm since 2013. Formerly, he worked for Sony Pictures Entertainment and interned with The Walt Disney Company and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Mr. Russo counsels production and distribution for companies such as Unified Pictures and Citizen Jones, and has worked on films such as “Fury” and “Dragged Across Concrete,” but his specialty at the firm is his focus on developing emerging media.

Chad has represented podcast producers and creators for critically acclaimed podcasts such as “Limetown,” “The Wilderness,” “Black List,” and “Guys We F***ed,” with associated companies such as Crooked Media, Luminary, Ninth Planet, Paragon Collective, and Action Park Media.

Highlights

• 2023 Tribeca premiere “Somewhere Quiet”
• 2023 SXSW features “Frybread Face and Me,” “Scrambled,” and “The Wrath of Becky”
• Sundance 2023 premiere “Fairyland” starring Emilia Jones
• 2022 Tribeca films “Cherry” and “A Wounded Fawn”
• 2022 SXSW films “The Cow” with Winona Ryder and “Hypochondriac”
• 2022 Sundance films “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul” starring Regina Hall & Sterling K. Brown and “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing”

Production & Distribution Legal

• CJ Entertainment
• “Press Play,” 2022
• Thank You Brain! Productions
• “Those Who Can’t,” 2016-2019
• 1inMM Productions
• “American Carnage,” 2022
• “Trunk”
• “Double Barrel”
• “Curvature,” 2017
• BoulderLight Pictures
• "The Cow,” 2022 SXSW
• "Wild Indian,” 2021 Sundance
• “Doors,” 2021
• “The Vigil,” 2019
• Citizen Jones
• “How to Become a Tyrant,” 2021
• “The Nod with Brittany and Eric,” 2020-present
• “T-Pain’s School of Business” 2018-presnt
• Unified Pictures, Inc.
• “Running Out of Dog,” upcoming
• “Rothchild,” upcoming
• “Dragged Across Concrete,” 2018, starring Mel Gibson & Vince Vaughn
• “What they Had,” 2018
• The Sifre Group
• “Ana,” 2020
• “Driven,” 2018
• Pure Flix Entertainment
• “The Beverlys,” 2019
• “Mood Swings,” 2019
• “Little Women,” 2018
• “Malibu Dan The Family Man,” 2017
• Indy Entertainment
• “Happily,” 2020 Tribeca
• “Model Citizen,” 2020
• “Literally, Right Before Aaron,” 2017
• Mucho Mas Media
• “Another Day Without A Mexican” (in development)
• Animation studios Echo Bridge Pictures and Glow in the Dark Concept Studio
• Pinky Promise
• “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul,” 2022 Sundance 

Podcast Counsel

• Crooked Media
• “The Wilderness,” 2018-present, seasons 1 and 2
• “Pod Save America,” 2017-present, iHeartRadio Podcast Award ‘news’ nominee
• “Limetown,” 2015-2018
• Philanthropy Gal, Inc. and Krystyna Hutchinson Productions
• “Guys We F’d”
• Ninth Planet
• “Black List," 2020
• “Telephone Stories," 2019
• The Paragon Collective
• “No Sleep,” 2011-present
• “Wellness and Other Crimes”
• “Deadly Manners," 2017
• untitled Jim Jeffries podcast
• Campfire Film & TV
• “Abuse of Power," 2020-present
• Action Park Media
• “American Glutton," 2020-present
• “Pretty Depressed,” 2020-present
• “The Festival Rules," 2020
• EARIOS
• Mama Bear Studios
• untitled Bertlesen podcast

Awards & Recognitions

• "Rising Stars" Super Lawyers, 2023-2024

Bar Admissions

• State Bar of California

Education

• B.S. in Business and B.A. in Economics, California State University Channel Islands, magna cum lade
• J.D., Loyola Law School Los Angeles