Joseph F. Hart is a partner in the law offices of Weinstein and Hart, in Beverly Hills, California. His practice includes intellectual property litigation in the motion picture, television and music industries. He has handled numerous profit participation and accounting cases, primarily on behalf of profit participants and royalty recipients.

Philip J. Hacker is a certified public accountant and a senior partner in the accounting firm of Hacker, Douglas & Company in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Hacker's firm has performed profit participation audits and rendered litigation support services to most major motion picture and television profit participants for the past 25 years. The firm's clients include Art Buchwald, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, James Garner, Dustin Hoffman, Aaron Spelling Productions, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.