Adam Bram

Adam Bram was a production attorney best known for successfully defending Paramount Pictures in a defamation lawsuit brought by Michael Jackson.

Bram graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, and subsequently received his Juris Doctor at UCLA's School of Law, graduating second in his class. He began his career with two prominent Los Angeles law firms, representing major television and motion picture studios. In 1995, Paramount hired him as a senior attorney; his duties included managing the TV studio's legal and business affairs. In addition to supervising all litigation, he oversaw the acquisition and distribution of entertainment product, and served as the on-site production attorney for Hard Copy, Paramount's daily tabloid series. In his first year, Bram faced enormous challenges after Hard Copy aired a story detailing an alleged sex tape featuring a young boy and Michael Jackson. After the allegation was proven untrue, Jackson filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against Paramount. Bram coordinated the studio's defense, guided the show's producers through the ordeal and led a successful defense against the lawsuit.

In 1999, he left Paramount to become senior vice president at Real Entertainment, overseeing legal affairs for the company's home-video division. In 2004, he started his own firm, providing outside general counsel services for independent production companies such as WonderStar and Bertram van Munster's WorldRace Prods. In recent years, he was a production attorney for several series for Leftfield Pictures (Ball Boys, In-Laws, Vegas Stripped, Oddities) and Cheri Sundae Productions (When Vacations Attack, Wild Weddings, Bad Dog and Untamed and Uncut).

Bram was a member of the California, Los Angeles and American Bar Associations, and was most recently appointed an advisory board member for the Association of Media Content Users Providers.

He died July 6th, 2015, in Los Angeles. Bram was 49.