Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily's The Sidebar, taking you inside the courtrooms

of high profile and notorious cases from across the country.

I'm your host Joshua Ritter, I'm a criminal defense lawyer based here in Los Angeles

and formally an LA County prosecutor for nearly a decade.

We're recording this on Friday, June 10th, 2022.

Today we are excited to be joined by Mitra Ahorian, a corporate and entertainment law attorney

with vast experience negotiating deals and film, television and other media.

Mitra, welcome.

Thank you.

Excited to be here.

A lot of fun stuff going to talk about today, huh?

Absolutely.

Lots for us to cover, but before we jump in, Mitra, could you just tell us a little bit about

your background and how you got your start?

Sure.

Yeah, so my background is in corporate law, I've probably spent about a year, so strictly

doing corporate law and then transitioned into entertainment.

So I specialized in entertainment and have sort of continued on that path, but I was at

a big firm and then a smaller firm and I've been in house and I've had my own practice

for several years now, which is my happy place.

And I also litigated for a few years, litigated a few high profile cases.

So I have a lot of experience in a broad array of areas of the law, but these days, what

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