For the third consecutive year, the Ziffren Institute on Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law presented 5 Years Out, an event aimed at providing current law students a candid look at the day-to-day work lives of UCLA Law alums now five years into their professional careers. On Feb.

Fifteen alumni of UCLA School of Law are among the top 100 attorneys in the entertainment industry, according to The Hollywood Reporter's 2020 Power 100 ranking, including two who joined the publication's list of "legal legends."

Many of the honorees have continued their close affiliations with UCLA and the law school's Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law, serving on boards of advisors.

The UCLA Law honorees include:

More than 200 people joined an April 23 webinar, hosted by the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law, where a distinguished panel discussed the impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had on the entertainment business.

Three students in UCLA Law’s Documentary Film Legal Clinic won a round of applause from movie industry insiders in a packed theater at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where they attended the premiere of The Cost of Silence, a documentary about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.