LFTC is pleased to announce that Bryan Freedman has been named to The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2026 “Power Lawyers: Top 100” list.
From the article…
Power Lawyers 2026: Hollywood’s 100 Most Powerful Attorneys
Meltdowns on movie sets, billion-dollar megamergers, backend battles — sooner or later, everybody needs a good lawyer. These are the best.
Even in Hollywood, nobody is above the law — even if you’re above the line. So if you’re a star, mogul or auteur who suddenly finds themselves on the wrong side of a contract dispute or a copyright infringement claim — or, God forbid, a subpoena in a case involving a Colleen Hoover adaptation — here are the 100 attorneys most likely to pull you out of hot water.
The lawyers on this list are each top of their field — with specialties in talent, litigation and corporate law — but that’s not the only reason they’ve been selected. Each of them worked on cases or deals in the past year that in some way, big or small, helped shape the town. Some negotiated unheard-of paydays for their clients (Ryan Coogler owes his attorney a standing ovation), some helped pull together acquisitions that altered the very foundations of the Hollywood landscape (rhymes with Schmaramount and Shmorner Brothers), some helped Jennifer Garner take her children’s food company public (with an $845 million valuation!).
All of them help keep the wheels of this industry turning, one billable hour at a time.
Bryan Freedman
Litigation
Liner Freedman Taitelman + Cooley LLP
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
When does it end with It Ends With Us? Freedman has been the most visible attorney in the Baldoni-Lively saga since day one — filing Baldoni’s $400 million countersuit against Lively (dismissed in June, though Lively’s pared down retaliation suit against Baldoni heads to trial in May) — while simultaneously facing a malpractice suit from the estate of a dying screenwriter who claims Freedman dumped him to take the more lucrative Baldoni case. Most recently, text messages surfaced placing Freedman in the middle of an alleged plot by Rebel Wilson’s PR team to smear a film producer as “the new Heidi Fleiss.” Away from the headlines, he won the CAA/Range Media Partners equity case at trial (now on appeal), which if upheld could reshape how agents and managers leave their employers.
