Law Practice
Dec. 23, 2008
Mitchell Silberberg Celebrates 100 Years of Legal Work in Tinseltown
In the early days of Hollywood, the big studios didn't keep in-house counsel. But lawyer Mendel Silberberg, co-founder of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, forged a relationship with Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn and moved into an office on the studio lot. That close bond between the firm and Hollywood has remained for 100 years.
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - In the early days of Hollywood, the big studios didn't keep in-house counsel. But lawyer Mendel Silberberg, co-founder of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, forged a relationship with Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn, and in 1924, Cohn gave Silberberg an office on the studio lot - something unheard of at the time. Since Mitchell Silberberg's founding in 1908, Hollywood and lawyers have b...
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