Variety’s Legal Impact Report 2022: Top Attorneys Winning Cases and Making Deals in Hollywood:

These showbiz lawyers win for their clients in court and guide them through industry disruptions.

Elsa Ramo, Michelle Chang, Erika Canchola, Nicole Compas

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Ramo Law

Ramo handles business affairs for content-creating powerhouses such as Imagine Entertainment, Hello Sunshine and Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud and HartBeat Prods., in addition to working with prolific producers such as Yale Entertainment. Chang oversees unscripted matters, handling clients including Boardwalk Pictures (“Chef’s Table”) and Scout Prods. (“Queer Eye”). Canchola specializes in TV, serving as outside production counsel for Skydance Television (“Reacher”) and 20th Television. She also advises clients on all aspects of development, financing and production for both film and television. She reps clients such as Aggregate Films, with Compas leading the firm’s New York office, advising clients on all aspects of scripted and unscripted television, motion picture and new-media development, including Push It Prods. (“The Upshaws”), Imagine Documentaries (“Lucy and Desi”) and the Jim Henson Co. The shifting landscape that’s occupied by the various digital outlets has created dynamic new business models. “The talent content valuation model is the new industry gold rush. The valuations and sales of companies, which were founded by high-profile talents, are where everyone’s chief focus is currently on,” Ramo says.

Podcast nation: Ramo notes that “everyone must be listening to podcasts nonstop because that business is evolving into a distinctive audio ecosystem.”

View the full impact report at Variety.