“I’m passionate about helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses. I also enjoy advising creative professionals on advancing their careers. Finding justice for people who have been wronged makes my day.”
Domenic is a lawyer-preneur. He is an experienced Corporate and Entertainment Attorney. His practice covers Business, Employment, Media and Sports Law. He advises clients on Corporate Structuring, Business Divorce, Purchase & Sale of Businesses, Demand Letters, Litigation, Employment Disputes, Licensing, and Complex Contract Negotiation.
Domenic is passionate about demystifying the law. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia Film School. He teaches Entertainment Law for Filmmakers, a graduate MFA course for producers, directors and screenwriters at Columbia University.
Domenic has been a legal commentator on NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Sky, FOX Business News and Bloomberg TV. He has also been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Independent, TIME, Entertainment Weekly or Adweek.
Domenic has received a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating from his peers. The ranking is given for the highest level of professional excellence in legal expertise, communication skills and ethical standards. He has also been named to the New York Metro Super Lawyers every year, since 2015, and has been on their Top 100 list since 2022.
Before starting Romano Law PLLC in 2003, Domenic was a Corporate Lawyer at Jones Day, Hahn & Hessen LLP; Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP; Hahn & Hessen LLP, and in-house legal counsel at a biotech firm, Pasteur Merieux Connaught in Toronto (now Sanofi Canada).
Domenic is an active member and past president of the New York Chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), the world’s largest community of business owners. He is the Founder of the international EO Lawyers Group, a graduate of the EO Executive Education program at Harvard Business School, and a current participant in the Entrepreneurial Masters Program (EMP), hosted at MIT.
He is a member of the New York City Bar Association and the Brooklyn Bar Association. Domenic is the Founding Member of the Business Lawyers Group, the Managing Partners Group and the Entertainment Lawyers Group in New York City, each a diverse network of seasoned attorneys.
Domenic is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (TV Academy) and an Emmy voter. He enjoys participating in TV academy events during this “platinum age of television”. He’s convinced that The Wire, The Sopranos, The White Lotus and Breaking Bad are some of the best series ever made.
Domenic’s parents were both born in Italy. He is tri-lingual (English, Italian and French). He has completed 8 marathons (including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Vermont and Rome) and over 30 half-marathons. Domenic is a history buff who regularly enjoys a good laugh, but he takes his pizza seriously (“no pineapple, please”).
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