Power Lawyers: The Breakfast (with Photos!)

Posted by Matthew Belloni

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Power Lawyers breakfast on Friday. In case you missed it, we just published our second annual list of the 100 most influential entertainment lawyers. Everyone from Jake Bloom to Ken Ziffren, check it out here.

The best part about doing the list is it gives us a great excuse to host an annual (yes, two years in a row makes it annual) breakfast to bring together some of the best entertainment attorneys in town. This year's event at the Peninsula hotel turned out even better than last year.

Here's coverage from the breakfast by THR's Leslie Simmons, and a photo spread runs in print THR on Tuesday. After the jump are some additional photos. Thanks to our sponsors City National Bank, Entertainment Strategies Group and JAMS. And special thanks to our guest speaker, MGM chairman and CEO Harry Sloan, and Walt Disney Studios executive vp business and legal affairs Bernarding Brandis, our inaugural Raising the Bar Studio Lawyer Award honoree. And, of course, all the Power Lawyers who showed up, from Bert Fields to Bruce Ramer to Ken Ziffren and everyone in between. Next year we promise to get rid of the buffet.

THR's Matthew Belloni (me), MGM's Harry Sloan, Disney's Bernardine Brandis and THR publisher Eric Mika pose before the festivities get underway.

THR editor Elizabeth Guider and litigator Larry Stein arrived early.

Talent dealmaker Jim Jackoway and litigator Neville Johnson had never met before.

Bernardine Brandis flanked by her adoring fans from Disney (Alan Bergman, Kal Walthers and Oren Aviv).

Pryor Cashman's Jim Janowitz, O'Melveny's Steve Scharf, MGM general counsel Scott Packman and business affairs exec Chris Miller.

All smiles: Litigators Howard Weitzman (left), Michael O'Connor and Andrew White with talent dealmaker Alan Wertheimer.

Litigator Marc Toberoff peruses the Power Lawyers issue.

O'Melveny's Marvin Putnam reads his own press with Anschutz Film Group CFO Francesca Lindley.

Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook presents Bernardine Brandis with THR's inaugural Raising the Bar Studio Lawyer Award to much clapping.

Harry Sloan addresses a crowd of lawyers with surprisingly zero interruptions.

Sloan fielding my hack questions like a pro.