O’Melveny’s Daniel Petrocelli, David Marroso, Leah Godesky, and Terrence Dugan Named to Billboard’s 2025 List of “Top Music Lawyers”
April 28, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES—April 28, 2025—O’Melveny partner and Trial Practice chair Daniel Petrocelli, partner and firmwide General Litigation Practice head David Marroso, partner Leah Godesky, and of counsel Terrence Dugan have been named to Billboard’s 2025 list of “Top Music Lawyers,” which honors “top attorneys who are making deals, guiding clients and watching out for AI.”
Recognized among the nation’s most esteemed trial lawyers and strategic advisors, Petrocelli has a national trial practice counseling and representing clients in major litigation in a wide variety of areas, including entertainment, media, sports, antitrust, competition, business torts, insurance, securities, employment law, and criminal defense.
Marroso represents clients in high-stakes antitrust, contract, criminal, environmental, insurance, intellectual property, and real property matters. His clients are some of the most sophisticated and well-known companies in the media and entertainment industry, as well as the apparel, consumer goods, financial services, private equity, and real estate sectors.
Godesky is a first-chair trial lawyer who leads winning teams, taking on multibillion-dollar cases for clients across an array of industries, including media and entertainment, insurance, health care, airlines, and banking. She is regularly recognized among the nation’s leading trial lawyers and one of the entertainment industry’s top litigators.
Dugan’s practice focuses on finance, acquisitions, and workouts, primarily in the motion picture and music sectors. He represents the most active agent banks in syndicated financings in the motion picture and music finance space, private equity debt and acquisition funds, and a number of other investors in the motion picture and music sectors.
Billboard Pro subscribers van view the full list here.
About O’Melveny
It’s more than what you do: it’s how you do it. Across sectors and borders, in board rooms and courtrooms, we measure our success by yours. And in our interactions, we commit to making your O’Melveny experience as satisfying as the outcomes we help you achieve. Our greatest accomplishment is ensuring that you never have to choose between premier lawyering and exceptional service. So, tell us. What do you want to achieve? Visit us at www.omm.com; learn more in our firm at-a-glance; and find us on LinkedIn,Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Contact:
Brandon Jacobsen
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
+1 213 430 8024
bjacobsen@omm.com
# # #