<\/p>\n
Heisler comes to Manatt after more than 11 years with Nixon Peabody<\/a>, where she built the firm\u2019s entertainment practice. She represents such rising star creator talent as Matty Matheson<\/a>, Jordan and Salish Matter<\/a>, Quen Blackwell<\/a> (was named one of Variety\u2018s 10 Creators to Watch earlier this month), Alan Chikin Chow<\/a> and media banners Doing Things and Friday Beers. Joining Manatt along with Heisler are two partners, Jessica Boardman<\/a> and Mike Lawhead<\/a>, and associate April Hua.<\/p>\n \u201cThis move is about alignment \u2014 of values, ambition and long-term vision \u2014 and to expand and accelerate Manatt\u2019s presence in the creator economy,\u201d Heisler said.<\/p>\n Boardman will focus on non-scripted entertainment and serve as counsel to on-camera talent,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ellie Heisler has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as a partner in its entertainment practice as the law firm looks to expand its activity in the creator economy and the emerging world of creators, influencers and brands. Heisler comes to Manatt after more than 11 years with Nixon Peabody, where she built the firm\u2019s entertainment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2336797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ellie-Heisler-Joins-Manatt-Phelps-Phillips-as-Firm-Expands.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336799,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336797\/revisions\/2336799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}