As Hollywood looks to rebound amid the new normal and reinvent its business practices, it’s the entertainment industry’s top attorneys who are settling strife between studios and stars, navigating big-ticket mergers and exploring issues involving NFTs and the metaverse.
As Hollywood looks to rebound on the tail end (hopefully) of a global pandemic and reinvent its business practices amid the new normal, it’s the entertainment industry’s top 100 attorneys who are settling the strife between studios and stars over blockbuster streaming releases, navigating big-ticket mergers while fending off the government’s antitrust ire, and exploring cutting-edge issues involving NFTs and the metaverse.
Bryan Freedman
Freedman & Taitelman
UNIV. OF THE PACIFIC, McGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW
Freedman is an expert in crisis litigation, the type that’s heavy in late night phone calls and corporate drama. He represented Mike Richards and Chris Harrison in their respective employment disputes with Sony over Jeopardy! and WarnerMedia/ABC over The Bachelor. Now he’s repping Chris Cuomo as the former CNN anchor responds to his termination. “How do employers police their own?” Freedman asks. “What kind of due process is there?” And then there’s Quentin Tarantino, who was sued by Miramax over NFTs he was involved in releasing that were based on his Pulp Fiction screenplay — an area of law Freedman expects will “become really big in Hollywood.”
Show I’m excited about …
“I’m looking forward to Pachinko on AppleTV+.”
If I weren’t a lawyer, I’d be …
“I think I would run a summer camp. The only problem is being a lawyer causes so much fear about the liability of a summer camp.”
