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Law Practice

Dec. 11, 2007

Off Camera, Hollywood's Elite Lawyers Play Starring Roles

Forum Column - By William Domnarski - The world of big-ticket entertainment lawyers is rather small, but the attorneys wield disproportionate power.

William Domnarski

Email: domnarski@gmail.com

William Domnarski is a Southland mediator and practitioner. His latest book is "Richard Posner," published by Oxford University Press in 2016.

FORUM COLUMN

By William Domnarski

      There are two kinds of Hollywood lawyers - the lawyers portrayed in the films and the lawyers who run the movie industry. Of this first group, I have no greater insight than anyone else. Of this second group, I had the good fortune recently to interview several of them for a book I wrote on Hollywood's most successful lawyer, Bert Fields. I learned enough from those interviews and from moving amo...

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