Contract Services
David Gross has extensive work experience in the entertainment industry. David served as the Chief Executive Officer at Contract Services from October 2019 to the present. Prior to that, they worked as a Senior Counsel at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) from August 2011 to September 2019. Before joining AMPTP, they were an Associate Attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP from 2007 to July 2011.
David Gross completed their Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and History at Cornell University from 2000 to 2004. Subsequently, from 2004 to 2007, they pursued their Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at USC Gould School of Law, specializing in Law.
Contract Services
In the mid-1960s, the major film studios, in negotiations with Hollywood’s unions, founded the nonprofit Contract Services. Our purpose is to carry out the required provisions of the collective bargaining agreements between the film and television industry’s West Coast Studio Local Unions and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which govern the employment conditions of a freelance union workforce of approximately 50,000 people in the greater Los Angeles area. We do this through administering apprenticeship training and safety programs, maintaining seniority rosters, and implementing other industry-wide services.