Power Lawyers 2012

Emanuel's longtime client Ryan Murphy can't stop pumping out hit shows -- Fox's Glee, Oxygen's reality spinoff The Glee Project, FX's anthology drama American Horror Story and NBC's upcoming comedy The New Normal, the first three of which earned additional season orders. "You anticipate one to two shows; you don't expect four different projects on the air at once," says the Australia native and avid biker, backpacker and photographer. He reps Cirque du Soleil in its expansion into TV as well as filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Tony Gilroy and Transformers producer Don Murphy.

➻ My first client "One of my first clients was Paul Hogan, whom I started representing before he went into production on Crocodile Dundee. To this day, he's still a client and a friend."

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