Linda McCauley

Linda McCauley is Vice President, Business Affairs for Searchlight Pictures.  She was previously Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs at Endeavor Content, where she was a key member of team that built the company's scripted and documentary feature division, working on such projects as Maggie Gyllenhaal’s recent Venice Film Festival award-winner The Lost Daughter, Apple TV+’s first feature film Hala, Icebox for HBO, and Blue Miracle for Netflix.  As a member of the entertainment transactional group at Davis Wright Tremaine, she shepherded production legal efforts on the Netflix series Trigger Warning With Killer Mike and Eric Andre’s semi-scripted feature Bad Trip.  She has also served as a business affairs executive and lawyer for a number of other entertainment companies including MGM, TNT Originals, Village Roadshow Pictures, and Beacon Pictures, where she has worked on such movie and television projects asYours, Mine and Ours, Basic Instinct 2, James Dean, Into The West, A Walk On the Moon, Bring It On, The Hurricane, Trippin’, A Thousand Acres, and Air Force One, among others. 

Linda began her career as an entertainment lawyer at Loeb & Loeb, where she oversaw legal work on the PBS series The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century.

Linda has a law degree from Columbia University, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Editor-In-Chief of the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts and co-founded the school’s chapter of the ACLU.  Her undergraduate work was in Broadcasting and Film at Boston University’s College of Communication, where she earned a B.S. magna cum laude.