Sign Up for Alerts
Sign up to receive receive industry-specific emails from our legal team.
Sign Up for Alerts
We provide tailored, industry-specific legal updates to our clients and other friends of the firm.
Areas of Interest
April 20th, 2022
Variety’s Legal Impact Report 2022: Top Attorneys Winning Cases and Making Deals
Entertainment Partners Marcie Cleary, Andrew Hurwitz, and Sasha Levites are included in Variety’s Legal Impact Report. Interactive Entertainment Counsel Dorian Slater Thomas is included as an “Up Next” honoree in the report.
Marcie represents Charla Lauriston and Rekha Shankar (NBC Television’s “Grand Crew”); writer-actor X Mayo (Amazon’s series “Yearly Departed”); actor Marcel Spears (CBS Television’s “The Neighborhood”); and Mandii B and Bridget Kelly for a seven-figure podcast distribution deal. Her comedy clients include Danielle Perez, Nori Reed, Sam Taggart, Jes Tom and Jeff Wright.
Andrew and Sasha repped the Roald Dahl Story Company sale to Netflix and Yla Eason, adding her Black superhero Sun-Man to Mattel’s Masters of the Universe roster.
Dorian advised Epic Games, publisher of “Fortnite,” on development of several projects. He helped Meta’s Horizon Worlds with its Metaverse initiatives and advised on the structure of the company’s Oculus Launch Pad Program.
Read the full report here.
Other Praise
Frankfurt Kurnit Attorneys Named to Southern California Super Lawyers List for 2023
Jeremy S. Goldman and Joseph R. Taylor are listed as Southern California Super Lawyers for 2023.
January 10 2023
Lawyers of Color: Hot List 2022
Lawyers of Color included Sean Jefferson and Khasim Lockhart in their 2022 Hot List which recognizes junior and mid-level attorneys who exemplify integrity, high achievement, leadership, and a passion for diversity. Read more.
December 21 2022
Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report 2022: Tough Times Take Tough Negotiators
Variety includes Marcie Cleary and Andrew Hurwitz in their Dealmakers Impact Report for 2022. Read more.
December 9 2022