Area of Practice: Sports and Entertainment Litigation Liner Freedman Taitelman Cooley LLP Partner Brian Elliot Turnauer is an experienced civil litigator whose practice focuses on entertainment, sports, employment, and commercial litigation. His twenty-three years of litigation and trial experience extends to both State and Federal Courts, and he has arbitrated before numerous arbitration tribunals including the California Labor Commissioner and International Television and Film Alliance (IFTA). Brian’s entertainment practice includes the representation of talent agencies, personal managers, actors, musicians (DJs, song-writers, composers), social media and cultural influencers, motion picture and television producers, and publishing companies. His sports practice includes the representation of professional athletes (boxers, wrestlers, basketball players and extreme sport athletes). He is also a licensed NBA agent. Brian often works with the FBI and the LAPD's Major Crimes, Celebrity Protection and Cyber-Crime division.

Cheryl Turner is the founder/principal attorney of Turner & Associates. Turner’s advocacy in the courts and legislature has led to legislation protecting consumer and constitutional rights. Her background as a law clerk extern in the U. S. Courts, counsel for insurance companies, lawyer to law firms involved in class-action suits, and in government advocacy is the basis for her law practice where she represents clients in business, tax, insurance, real estate, consumer rights and personal injury matters. She has served as insurance defense counsel where she has successfully defended insureds from liability claims, represents clients in real estate development projects; represented the FDIC and RTC in banking litigation; has been recognized with the American Judicature Award for Appellate Advocacy. She has published over 40 articles and is a media expert on rental housing. Turner received her J.D. from U.S.C. and is admitted to the California, Texas, Missouri, Arizona Federal Courts.

Tab Turner is a trial lawyer with offices in Arkansas, Texas, San Diego, and New York. He graduated with high honors from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is the sole shareholder in Turner & Associates, P.A., a law firm devoted to serving consumers and victims of human rights violations. Mr. Turner is a trial attorney who specializes in representing consumers injured by defective automotive products, environmental litigation, anti-terrorism litigation, and commercial litigation. In the field of automotive safety, his primary focus has been on vehicle handling and stability and catastrophic tire failures as well as representing families of children injured by defective safety systems. Mr. Turner has won verdicts for clients in multiple cases where the verdict was in excess of $20,000,000.00, including a $132,000,000.00 jury verdict against Ford Motor Company relating to the death of Brian Cole, a young outfielder with the New York Mets.

Mark was born in Winter Haven, Florida and has spent his entire career here. Mark practices in the areas of Real Estate, Estate Planning, Probate and Guardianship, Business Law, and Civil Litigation. A past president of the Greater Winter Haven Area Chamber of Commerce, Mark has served in leadership roles for Girls, Inc., Main Street Winter Haven, the American Red Cross Polk County Chapter and Habitat for Humanity of East Polk County. He currently serves on the District Board of Trustees of Polk State College and the board of directors of the Humane Society of Polk County. He is an alumnus of Leadership Winter Haven and Leadership Polk, and was also a member of the Florida Blue Key leadership honorary at the University of Florida. Major representative clients include Adams Homes and State Farm Credit Union.