Warren Dern, Jason Sloane, Michael Bay, Robert Offer and David Weber
Some Hollywood law firms foster a cutthroat environment. But the four name partners at Sloane Offer Weber & Dern have succeeded by sharing their A-list clients — Angelina Jolie, Mark Wahlberg, The Hangover director Todd Phillips, to name just a few. Take Michael Bay, for example. the mega-grossing Transformers filmmaker has expanded from directing blockbusters into producing (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the upcoming Almanac) and now into television with TNT’s The Last Ship. “He has an uncanny sense of his value and welcomes input from all of us,” says Offer, who has known Bay since they were schoolmates at Santa Monica’s Crossroads.