We interrupt this irregularly scheduled programming, to bring you this special announcement from our law firm!
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LLP is extremely pleased to announce that Laura Farina, who
until recently was the Vice President for Legal Affairs at
Discovery Communications, Inc., has become a member of the firm.
Laura is acclaimed throughout the television and media
industries for her skills and experience as a
media/entertainment/sports lawyer. She excels in transactional
drafting and negotiations, defense litigation, media/event
insurance and risk management, intellectual property advice, and
content review. During her 12 years as in-house counsel for the
world's #1 nonfiction media company and all of its networks and
business units (including The Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal
Planet, Science and Investigation Discovery, and many others),
with over 1.8 billion viewers in 209 countries, Laura was Vice
President in charge of global litigation, supervised
transactional work and content review for hundreds of programs
and films, handled the company's insurance matters (playing a
key role in negotiating and drafting its media insurance
policy), and generally served as a problem solver, risk manager
and adviser to all of its networks and business units.