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"No envelope mix-up here! Meet the lawyers behind the 'Moonlight' Oscar winner, Melania's lawsuit, Bill O'Reilly's downfall, the year's most significant media megamergers and pretty much anything that matters in Hollywood. Extortion. Messy divorces. Nine-figure deals with Chinese media conglomerates. It's been a busy year for Hollywood's potential lawyers, who once again gather in THR's pages for its magazine's yearly Power Attorneys difficulty. The men and women on this list manage a range of cases, from simple talent contracts to complex corporate mergers that take weeks to iron out, however they all have things in common. They all love working in the entertainment market. All of them play a very important part in keeping Hollywood's wheels turning. They're all at the very top of the area. And -- judging from THR's survey -- they drink a lot of coffee (a mean of 5.5 cups every day, even if calculations incorporate the guy who promised to down 97 cups).
Beneath, the Power Lawyers of 2017 discuss their biggest instances, disclose their private political beliefs (only 14 percent think Donald Trump will get impeached) and answer the age-old question, "Which superhero would you most want to represent? ""

Marty Katz

Sheppard Mullin Alma mater University of Michigan Law School He matters Once you're a Hollywood litigator, all sorts of weird stuff could pop up. Just like a dancer's collapse on a Carnival cruise boat. Katz is working with this while also preparing to go to trial for investors seeking to recover what they spent to the troubled movie adaptation of Martin Amis' London Fields. But his bread and butter is still profit-participation instances. He also 's representing MGM in a dispute over a set of Clint Eastwood classics and recently finished arbitrating a case between a music movie which became a viral feeling online. Comfort food "Pizza and fries. "

Faiza Saeed

Cravath Swaine & Moore Alma mater Harvard Law School Why she matters In January, following advising on several of the greatest media deals in years -- Time Warner's impending $85.4 billion acquisition by AT&T, Amblin Partners' strategic partnership with China's Alibaba Pictures, DreamWorks Animation's $3.8 billion acquisition by NBCUniversal, Yahoo's pending $4.83 billion acquisition by Verizon -- Saeed became the first female presiding partner in her elite law firm's two-century history. "Selling DreamWorks Animation was a special milestone because I worked on its creation in 1995," she says. "It was the culmination of a very long relationship. " Most dangerous thing I've accomplished in a decade "Accept my current job. "

Bruce Ramer

Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown Alma mater Harvard Law School Why he matters He has been Steven Spielberg's mouthpiece since before Jaws. Other clients include David O. Russell (who's working in an untitled Mafia play for Amazon that can star Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore) and recently signed Hidden Figures director Theodore Melfi. Ramer is the chairman of the Institute on Entertainment Law and Business in USC, where he curates the annual entertainment law symposium.

Matthew Johnson

Ziffren Brittenham Alma mater Southwestern Law School Why he issues In April, Johnson filed a lawsuit on behalf of Sylvester Stallone alleging that Warner Bros. has been "dishonest" in profit participations. The complaint continues an active period for the lawyer, who lately scored a settlement for three people who claimed that ABC's Quantico derived from their job. Most dangerous thing I've done in a decade "Getting near the gorillas in Rwanda. "