Matt Blackett works within the management group of SAG-AFTRA Legal Department, working with its General Counsel, Jeffrey Bennett, and others to oversee and lead the union’s legal operations. Matt manages the union’s associate general counsel, counsel, case managers, and legal support staff, leading the union’s grievance and arbitration process and strategy.
In addition to his management responsibilities, Matt oversees the Legal Department’s staffing of the SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating processes, personally staffing the negotiations for the TV/Theatrical agreements, the Commercials Contract, and the Sound Recordings Code, and indirectly advising many others. Matt works with the union’s executive leadership on the union’s Artificial Intelligence strategy, is legal counsel to the union’s Los Angeles Local, and represents the union in arbitration and litigation before various bodies.
Outside of work, Matt lives in the southwest region of Los Angeles and splits his time between playing ice hockey, taking care of his dog, Henry, and binge-watching television shows with his wife—Matt maintains that they would do quite well on The Amazing Race, given the chance…
