Robert Woods (Member) started his legal career in 1981 at Cooper, Epstein & Hurewitz, a leading entertainment law firm in Beverly Hills. While there, he represented such clients as Frank Zappa, magician Lance Burton, and director Charles Nelson Reilly. From 1986 to 1996, Woods was a partner at Grossman, Grant, Cramer & Woods, where he managed the firm's business litigation department, handled business and real estate transactions, and began developing the firm's entertainment law practice.

Since 1996, Woods has focused his practice on representing independent producers, writers, and directors. His work has included drafting and negotiation of motion picture production contracts, bank financing transactions, equity investments, and distribution agreements for numerous motion pictures. Woods also has considerable copyright and trademark expertise and handles copyright and trademark registrations and licensing for his clients.

As a trial lawyer, Woods' accomplishments include compelling the City of Redondo Beach to rebuild the Redondo Pier which had been partially destroyed in a fire, and as an appellate lawyer, he has established several important legal precedents, resulting in five published opinions by the California Court of Appeal. In 2001, Woods was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Woods' legal experience has been complemented and enhanced by his own experience as a producer. With his producing partner, Lee Wilson, Woods produced the television movie, "The Miracle of the Cards" for PAX-tv and Viacom. The movie, which is currently licensed to Lifetime Television, won the 2002 Epiphany Prize.

Woods and Wilson also produced the live-action holiday special, "The Elf Who Saved Christmas," starring JoAnne Worley, which Woods licensed to USA Network domestically and to networks in more than a dozen countries worldwide (including ITV in the U.K., RTL in Germany, and the Seven Network in Australia). Immediately after the program's broadcast premiere on USA Network, in which it attained record ratings, USA ordered a sequel, "The Elf and the Magic Key," also produced by Woods and Wilson.

Woods obtained his undergraduate degree in drama from the University of Oklahoma, and prior to entering law school, he was involved as an actor, director, or choreographer in more than 50 stage productions.