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Leigh represents top actors, writers, directors and hyphenates as well as leading television production companies, talent management organizations and multimedia companies. Among her clients are on camera talent such as John Oliver, Conan O’Brien, Mel Gibson, Sharon Stone, Aidan Gallagher, Jenny McCarthy, Rob Delaney, and Iliza Shlesinger; award-winning writers and directors such as Walter Hill (Aliens, Tales of the Crypt) Jon Cassar, Anne Kenney, Jamie Lee, and production companies and producers such as Davis Entertainment Television, Plan B Television, Serendipity Point Films, Conaco, Atmosphere Entertainment and Avalon Television. In addition to high level talent deals, her practice has encompassed the sale of various client companies in M&A transactions.
Leigh began her California legal career with five years at O’Melveny & Meyers. After a short stint out of private practice as VP of Business Affairs for NBC Entertainment, she joined Bloom, Dekom, Hergott as head of the television department. At the beginning of 2020 after the retirement of Jake Bloom and Alan Hergott, she started Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson with several of her former partners.
Born and raised in Arizona, Leigh received her B.A. from Mills College and graduated Cum Laude from The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (ASU) where she served on the Law Review as a writer and topics editor. She is a member of the Arizona, New York and California State Bars and was featured in The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 issues, as well as in Variety’s 2017 and 2020 Dealmakers Impact Report. She has also been featured in the Los Angeles Business Journal in their “Who’s Who in L.A. Law”, in Elle Magazine’s “The Power List: The Mad Women, the Twilighters, and Team Conan.” She is an emeritus board member of UCLA Entertainment Symposium and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. A former Chair of the Motion Picture, Television, Cable and Radio Division of the American Bar Association Forum on Entertainment and Sports, she is a frequent guest lecturer at UCLA and USC law and business school events.
Married and the mother of two children, Leigh is active in civic and charitable causes and is also an avid polo player.
Co-Founder/Partner
Dave Feldman is a Co-Founder and partner at Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson, LLP in Century City, California. He has spent over 25 years negotiating Film, Television, Brand, Endorsement, Book, Radio/Podcast and other deals for a wide variety of top tier talent including Actors, Writers, TV Showrunners, Directors and Producers. His dealmaking for his eclectic mix of talent clients has brought in over $100 million of aggregate revenues in the past year alone including several “8 figure“ deals. His clients include some of the highest paid talent working in TV and Film today
Among his wide-ranging client roster are Emmy nominee and Peabody Award winner Keegan-Michael Key, mega film producer Irwin Winkler, former UFC fighter and global superstar Ronda Rousey, Sports Radio hall of fame host and Icon Jim Rome, the creators/executive producers of the long running, multi Emmy award winning “The Amazing Race” television series and dozens of other top tier talent in all facets of the entertainment industry A leader in television negotiations and renegotiations for his many actor clients, Dave is an outside consultant to SAG/AFTRA and has spearheaded many innovative changes in TV agreements over the past 20 years.
Dave began his entertainment law career in the entertainment department at O’ Melveny & Myers. From there he joined the prestigious Bloom, Dekom & Hergott boutique talent law firm where he became a name partner in 2005. At the end of 2019, after the retirement of Jake Bloom and Alan Hergott, Dave formed Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson with his former partners.
Dave has been featured numerous times in Variety’s prestigious annual Dealmakers Impact Report. He is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law where he helped resurrect the Berkeley Entertainment Law Society and was an Associate Editor on the CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW. As a law student, he also produced Professor Robert Berring’s COMMANDO LEGAL RESEARCH videotape series, which pioneered the use of video to teach legal research. Prior to law school, Dave spent 3 years as a television news producer for CNN and NBC.
Co-Founder/Partner
Stephen Breimer is a co-founding partner of Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson, LLP. He specializes in representing talent, intellectual property and brands.
His clients include a broad spectrum of mainstream film and television talent (Sharon Stone, Shemar Moore, Lucas Hedges, Tim Blake Nelson), international talent (Colm Meaney, Avalon Television), writers and showrunners (James Duff, Peter Hedges, Andrew Dabb, Alan Fox, Ronald Parker, Lem Dobbs) as well as bestselling authors, playwrights, reality stars, podcast hosts and designers.
Over the years Stephen has helped structure precedent setting deals for many celebrity experts, such as the agreements for Drs. Rodan and Fields for the initial launch of ProActiv, record breaking book deals for Jordan Peterson and Tony Robbins, and venture agreements for celebrity product lines (Lisa Rinna, Fredrik Eklund, Jenny McCarthy) with exit strategy potential for buyouts and stock offerings. Long considered a direct marketing/infomercial guru, Stephen served on the Board of Electronic Retailing Association for three years.
Much of Stephen’s practice is dedicated to helping his clients retain ownership of their intellectual property when possible (not always hired hands). And not just for his celebrity expert clients, but for other clients also fortunate to retain their IP, such as best-selling author (Gregg Hurwitz), playwrights (Douglas Carter Beane, Charles Busch, Chris D’Arienzo), a televangelist/author (Joel Osteen), award winning journalist (Jake Adelstein/Tokyo Vice), producers New Amsterdam Entertainment (Dawn of the Dead, Dune, The Stand) and Bruce Cohn Curtis (Dreamscape, Hell Night), which have retained sequel and series rights, and many of Avalon Management’s comedians who retain the rights to their jokes and comedy acts.
He also represents several legends –Paul Reubens/Pee-wee Herman, Diane Ladd and Ben Vereen, which he considers a great privilege.
Stephen feels fortunate to have partners who are true collaborators, as well as long standing relationships with outside lawyers when needed for trademark, tax, labor union issues and litigation.
Prior to his law practice, Mr. Breimer worked in production on a number of television movies and feature films. He produced and co-wrote the horror film, “Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker” aka “Night Warning”, which was re-released on Ultra HD (Quentin Tarantino has an actual print of the picture and has screened it a number of times at his New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood). For that film, he won the Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films in 1982.
Stephen is currently on the Board of the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The third edition of his book entitled “The Screenwriter’s Legal Guide” was published by Allworth Press.
Co-Founder/Partner
Ashley Silver is a Founding Partner of Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson, LLP.
She represents some of the top talent in the digital and traditional space including content creators, actors, writers, directors, producers, influencers, chefs, and athletes. She focuses on representing clients in a 360 capacity as it pertains to all areas of entertainment and works closely with clients to help them obtain both their short- and long-term objectives. Ashley advises clients on how to effectively navigate and monetize deals in film and television, brand endorsement, social media, podcasts, consumer products, apparel, merchandising, licensing, and publishing. Ashley has helped clients establish significant commercial ventures and build businesses across the beauty, apparel, consumer products, fragrance, skincare, haircare, accessories, food, beverage, vitamins, toys, and wellness industries. Ashley focuses on protecting clients’ intellectual property across the board.
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, J.D., 2014, Loyola Entertainment Program
Variety 2020 Power or Law Legal Impact Report
Business Insider 2021- Top Lawyers who work with YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram Creators.
Co-Founder/Partner
Richard Thompson has a unique practice, representing a mix of talented clients and entrepreneurial companies. His work ranges from talent deals in motion pictures and television, to complex rights analysis and IP licensing, to structuring companies and financing deals, to helping clients build their businesses and protect their brands. It includes deals in technology, software, payments, and crypto, but always touches in some way on the entertainment business which has been his passion since he fell in love with movies as a teenager.
Richard was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and attended Harvard College, and Stanford Law School. He has worked at several leading law firms and has been a co-founder of two firms. In 2000-2001 he worked as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and General Counsel and later Chief Operating Officer of The Brodia Group, a startup company in the payments space in the first internet boom. He has spoken extensively on entertainment, intellectual property, and digital media issues at, among other places, USC, UCLA, Pepperdine, Southwestern, Loyola, the Practicing Law Institute, and the Los Angeles Copyright Society He is a past president and long-time member of the Los Angeles Copyright Society.
Associate
Ariela, is an associate at Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson, representing clients across the board in film, TV and social media. Prior to joining the firm, Ariela was a business affairs executive at 20th Television, a division of Disney Television Studios, where she negotiated various above-the-line talent deals for the development, production and distribution of numerous television series. Prior to that, Ariela was an associate at the offices of Lawrence Mortorff. Ariela, was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, home of the Rocky Mountains. She is a Brooklyn Law School alum, where she graduated with honors and a Certificate in Entertainment and Media law. Currently, Ariela resides in Brentwood with her husband, Joel, and their dog, Bear.
Associate
Cayla Bergman is an associate at Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson LLP. Cayla specializes in media, digital and entertainment law matters and represents various social media creators, television personalities, writers and directors.
Prior to joining the firm, Cayla worked in production legal at Gaumont where she worked on various film, television and animation projects throughout the development, production and distribution stages. Afterwards, she became counsel for the production risk team at Paramount Global, where she worked on numerous unscripted and scripted productions by evaluating diligence for talent and crew (including background checks, psychological and medical evaluations), advising productions on permitting and working hours for minors, and supporting internal and third party teams to mitigate legal and press risks.
She obtained her Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School in 2021. During law school, she was a member of the Negotiation Honors Program, Peer Mentor board, Delta Theta Phi, and an editor of the Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law.
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