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Q&A: Bernardine Brandis


July 23, 2008 When Bernardine Brandis joined the Walt Disney Studios' business affairs department in 1985, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg had just arrived on the sleepy Burbank campus and her first company retreat included just 50 people. The UCLA Law grad, now executive vp business and legal affairs and the studio's top film deal lawyer, has been instrumental in recent big-ticket partnerships with superproducers Jerry Bruckheimer and Scott Rudin, directors Tim Burton and Robert Zemeckis, as well as new 3-D and nature divisions. Matthew Belloni chatted with Brandis in advance of her receiving THR's Raising the Bar Studio Lawyer Award at Friday's Power Lawyers Power Breakfast.

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