For individual creators, Mr. Campbell regularly negotiates and revises agreements with major publishers, studios, music distributors, and theater producers, ensuring that financial interests and intellectual property rights are allocated fairly among all stakeholders. In recent years, he has become a trusted adviser to impact documentary filmmakers and to the organizations that support them, guiding participants, producers, and distributors through the distinctive legal and ethical issues that arise in documentary production. His clients’ work has garnered honors and nominations from the Television Academy (Emmy®), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar®), Columbia University (Pulitzer Prize), the NAACP (Image Award), and the Sundance Film Festival (Special Jury Award), among others.

Mr. Campbell also partners with independent companies that are reinventing the creative pipeline from content development to distribution. He frequently advises technology enterprises that are reshaping the entertainment landscape, including ventures utilizing blockchain and artificial intelligence to transform how artistic content is produced and delivered. In the advertising arena, larger businesses rely on his counsel regarding the intellectual property, publicity, moral-rights, and consumer-protection considerations inherent in endorsements, sponsorships, and influencer agreements.

Beyond his legal practice, Mr. Campbell is deeply engaged in arts and education philanthropy. He serves on the boards of the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation (Secretary), which supports teaching artists and arts organizations; BlackStar Projects (Co-Chair), producer of the Oscar®-qualifying BlackStar Film Festival; Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, which offers pro bono services to under-resourced artists and arts nonprofits; and Independence Charter School (Secretary), a K-8 institution attended by two of his three children.

Best Lawyers® has recognized Mr. Campbell for his work in Entertainment Law—Motion Pictures and Television and Entertainment Law—Music for the last three straight years. He earned his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Constitutional Law while serving on the Arts & Entertainment Law Journal and as a Public Interest Scholar. He holds an M.F.A. in Theatre from Columbia University School of the Arts, where he is Faculty Senate Emeritus, and a B.S. from Vanderbilt University, where he was a Dean’s Scholar.

Mr. Campbell lives in South Philadelphia with his wife of nineteen years, Jasmine Peña-Campbell, and their two younger children, Paul and Marco. His eldest child, Sekya, resides and works in South Jersey.