Ucla law named america’s top entertainment law School by The Hollywood Reporter Ucla School of law waS rankeD nUmber one in The Hollywood Reporter’s first listing of the best schools for an entertainment law education. Ranking higher than USC Gould School of Law and Harvard Law, UCLA Law claimed the top spot on the list for its diverse and specialized course offerings, esteemed alumni working in all fields of entertainment and the ability of students to also take classes at UCLA’s film and business schools. The publication noted that UCLA Law was one of the first schools to consider entertainment a serious discipline, more than four decades ago, and cited the annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium as a key event for top executives and lawyers. For this new listing, The Hollywood Reporter surveyed more than 200 law schools in the nation, evaluating their course offerings, practical training options and alumni working in the field in order to choose the top 10 entertainment law schools.
UCLA Law Hosts 36th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium
Leslie Moonves
Ucla School of law hosted the 36th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium, “Killer Deals – What Works, What’s New, What’s Coming?” in March. A highlight of the event was a keynote interview with CBS Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves. To a packed audience, Moonves, a career executive in the entertainment industry who has been at the forefront of innovation, discussed the network’s approach to distributing content on emerging digital platforms. Ken Ziffren ’65, of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, and an adjunct professor in the UCLA School of Law Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property
Law Program, conducted the interview. Panelists at the two-day event, which addresses subjects at the forefront of the entertainment industry, explored the changing landscape of the entertainment industry. They shared their perspectives on the impact of evolving technologies, which are causing a re-examination of long established practices and assumptions. Panelists and moderators included eminent UCLA School of Law faculty members and top entertainment lawyers, along with key executives from Hasbro Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, Netflix, Cinemark Theatres, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, ABC Television, Creative Artists Agency, YouTube and Facebook. Independent producers, agents and media developers also presented their perspectives from the frontlines.
UCLA Law “Power Lawyers” An iMpressive 17 uCLA sChooL of law alUmni have been selected by The Hollywood Reporter as 2012 Power Lawyers. Congratulations to: John Branca ’75, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Skip Brittenham ’70, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Melanie Cook ’78, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Sam Fischer ’82, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Ruth Fisher ’80, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP John Frankenheimer ’73, Loeb & Loeb LLP Michael Gendler ’80, Gendler & Kelly LLP Carlos Goodman ’88, Bloom Hergot Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman LLP Howard King ’77, King Holmes Paterno & Berliner LLP Dale Kinsella ’74, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP Skip Miller ’72, Miller Barondess LLP Schuyler Moore ’81, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Marcy Morris ’81, Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austin Mandelbaum Morris & Klein LLP Robert Offer ’92, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern LLP Jason Sloane ’88, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern LLP Gary Stiffelman ’79, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Ken Ziffren ’65, Ziffren Brittenham LLP
Leslie Moonves and Ken Ziffren '65
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