Currently based in Chicago, Mary Trier works primarily on film and television projects, strategically directing independent creators and studios alike through varied matters, whether it be industry norms or complex chain of title issues.  

Over the years, Trier has cultivated a uniquely comprehensive expertise in the intersecting realms of entertainment’s business and law. She has led business and legal affairs for Lion Forge Animation and Imagine Entertainment alongside Elsa Ramo, guided development for Balboa Productions and Hello Sunshine, provided general counsel for Boardwalk Pictures, Laugh Out Loud Productions, JuVee Productions, and Funny or Die, production legal for Fox and Skydance Media alongside Erika Canchola, and financing legal for BondIt, and has advised independent producers such as About It Films, Balcony 9 Productions, Flexible Films, Handkerchief Films, and Lydia Hearst, among many others. 

Notable projects include ABC’s The Rookie, New Line’s Shazam!, FX’s Mayans M.C. and The Chi, Netflix’s tick, tick…BOOM! and Hillbilly Elegy, Skydance’s Grace and Frankie, and the films Arkansas starring Vince Vaughn and Liam Hemsworth and The Hating Game starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell. 

Trier was named in Variety’s “Hollywood New Leaders of 2022,” and is consistently selected as a “Rising Star” in Super Lawyers Magazine. Trier is licensed in California, where she obtained her Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School, and Illinois, where she represents the firm’s Chicago presence and resides with her family. 

Bar Admissions 

• State Bar of California 
• Illinois State Bar Association 

Education 

• Southwestern Law School, J.D.