Ivy Kagan Bierman’s father was a jazz trumpet player. Her mother was a ballet dancer.When the Loeb & Loeb partner is honored on Sept. 16 by the Beverly Hills Bar Assn. as its Entertainment Lawyer of the Year, her brother, jazz pianist Shelly Berg, will give a special musical tribute, along with singer Patti Austin.The tribute will take place at a dinner at the Beverly Wilshire hotel.Bierman herself was an actress, singer and dancer in her youth — and even...
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Partner / Chair, Entertainment Labor
Kagan Bierman has been especially in-demand in the post-#MeToo era as both an attorney and a pundit. Day to day, she handles management-side guild and union matters, including collective bargaining negotiations, grievances, COVID-19 safety protocols, National Labor Relations Board proceedings, harassment, discrimination and bullying prevention and cultural assessments. Her clients include networks (Adult Swim, Weigel Broadcasting), production companies and animation studios (Fremantle, eOne, Industrial Media, Rick & Morty Productions, ShadowMachine), ad agencies (Mocean) and direct marketing companies (Guthy-Renker). In 2019, she helped end the WGA-talent agency impasse when she negotiated a groundbreaking agreement between Verve Talent & Literary Agency and the guild and helped Time’s Up craft its safety guide for entertainment workers.