Lower than a yr after Bryan Freedman’s regulation agency added Jay-Z lawyer Miles Cooley to the masthead, Freedman Taitelman + Cooley LLP is rebranding once more.
Actual property and enterprise lawyer Stuart Liner is popping out of retirement to be the agency’s managing companion and new named companion, I’ve realized. There’s no new emblem but, however the brand new banner shall be Liner Freedman Taitelman + Cooley LLP as of July 1.
Already a heavyweight within the Hollywood authorized enviornment, Freedman sees the addition of the Liner LLP founder to the agency he co-founded 27 years in the past as a making a neighborhood business and cultural assertion and establishing new income streams within the evolving media market.
“When Stuart informed us that he could be open to main our agency into the long run, Michael, Miles and I have been ecstatic and honored,” mentioned Freedman of the San Diego State College and Loyola Regulation Faculty graduate. “The agency has had great income development prior to now a number of years, which has now created for us the power to strategically spend money on increasing the agency’s capabilities and providers, whereas additionally creating non-legal income stream alternatives with top-tier purchasers and business entrepreneurs.”
Liner left the regulation in 2022 after promoting the1996-founded and 75-attorney sturdy Liner LLP to DLA Piper in 2017.
“It wasn’t my unique plan to return to regulation,” Liner informed Deadline right this moment. “However when Bryan, Mike and Miles got here to me with this distinctive alternative so as to add firepower to the profitable platform they’d constructed within the areas of leisure, know-how and actual property—the three most important drivers of our native economic system—all I may see have been countless alternatives and upside.”
Liner added: “Their market place, willingness to take threat by investing with and for purchasers, and their management in model and status promotion and safety creates worth levers that I’m actually excited to assist maximize.”
“Stuart is a grasp at constructing regulation companies, recruiting and honing expertise, and selling a high-performance tradition, whereas navigating complexity and mitigating threat,” mentioned agency co-founder Taitelman. “We stay up for collaborating with him to create the agency of the long run.”
“Stuart recruited me to DLA again within the day and have become a mentor to me,” mentioned the now second to most up-to-date named companion Cooley on Wednesday. “With the ability to now work alongside him on all points of our agency—particularly to extra deeply develop our contingency apply—won’t solely be gratifying, will probably be enjoyable.”
Bryan Freedman
More and more excessive profile within the aggressive and picture aware LA authorized world, Freedman has been engaged of late in a multi-prong effort to shine a lightweight on the allegedly poisonous underbelly of Actuality TV, amongst different circumstances. Moreover, as Deadline completely reported earlier this week, the Liner Freedman Taitelman + Cooley LLP co-founder noticed his shopper La La Land composer Justin Hurwitz reached an apparently wholesome settlement along with his ex-agency WME over a lingering authorized struggle spawned by the dwell live performance model of the Oscar profitable flick.
