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Variety’s Power of Law Honoree Clifford Gilbert-Lurie Cuts Deals for Hollywood’s Biggest Names
ariety's Power of Law honoree Clifford Gilbert-Lurie talks working with major Hollywood clients including Dick Wolf and Sandra Bullock.
CAA agent Jeff Jacobs, who has known Gilbert-Lurie for more than three decades and in recent years worked with him on Bruckheimer’s television deals, says his career brings to mind the adage that greatness is defined as consistency over time at a high level. He thought he’d be a trial lawyer like the ones he saw on TV shows like “Perry Mason” and “The Defenders.” But after his first year of law school at UC Berkeley, he took a summer clerkship at Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, a Beverly Hills firm whose principal client was entertainment giant MCA Universal. At Disney, Gilbert-Lurie was involved in negotiations with George Lucas to bring the Star Tours ride to Disneyland, as well as numerous actor, director and writer deals, and helped develop the studio’s profit participation templates.
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