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Power Lawyers 2021: Hollywood’s Top 100 Attorneys

As Hollywood inches closer to a post-pandemic "normal" amid shortening theatrical windows, continuing consolidation and the sunsetting of packaging, the 100 attorneys on The Hollywood Reporter's 15th annual power list have the industry's high-stakes litigation, mega-mergers and big-ticket talent pacts under control.

Riz Ahmed and his lawyers Daniel
Riz Ahmed (right), whose performance in 'Sound of Metal' landed him a best actor nomination, was photographed on Oscar Sunday with his lawyers Daniel Passman and Tara Kole at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood. Photographed by Josh Telles

When Hollywood gets disrupted — whether by a pandemic or a paradigm-shifting merger like the one between AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Discovery — it’s the lawyers who must rewrite the rules of the game. And if there’s anyone who can negotiate tentpoles pivoting to streamers, mediate the detente between writers and agents and navigate the still-insatiable appetite for content, it’s the entertainment industry’s top 100 attorneys — who may never go back to wearing suits and heels but definitely will return to The Grill on the Alley.

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