The conscious uncoupling of some of Hollywood’s biggest talent lawyers at the Ziffren Brittenham firm is continuing. I’m told the defecting group—led by Matt Johnson, P.J. Shapiro and Greg Slewett, as well as Tara Kole of Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman—has added a new group of attorneys: Ziffren’s Raymond Tambe, Patrick Ragen and Ryan Worrell; as well as Marjorie Williams, a senior business affairs exec at Amazon Studios; Samantha Wainaina of the Hansen Jacobson firm; and Tiffany Graddick of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, Feldman & Clark. They join Ziffren’s Logan Clare and Wendy Kirk, who I predicted last month would join.
The new firm won’t launch until January, and it’s still an amicable split from Ziffren. But I’ve heard Johnson and his partners are talking to others about joining, so there could be more names added in the next few weeks.
