Where Everybody Knows Your Name "Cheers: Music From The TV Series" which also includes Portnoy's original demo version, as well as several earlier attempts by Portnoy and Angelo at composing the theme. By 1981, New York songwriter Gary Portnoy had already written songs for the likes of Air Supply ("I’ll Never Get Enough") and Dolly Parton ("Say Goodnight"). One night in the summer of that same year, his friend Judy Hart happened to be seated next to a Broadway producer at dinner. Upon finding out that Hart was working for a music publisher, he asked her if she could recommend someone to compose the score
Elliott Portnoy counsel around the world. Prior to assuming the Sonnenschein chairmanship, Portnoy was chair of the firm's Public Law & Policy Strategies Group, which he founded in 2002. This public policy practice has received national recognition by "Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business" as one of the nation's leading government relations practices and "The National Law Journal" magazine ranked the group No. 8 on its annual “Influence 50” list of the nation’s highest-grossing lobbying practices for 2009. Harvard Law School, J.D., "cum laude", 1992 Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar, Ph.D., 1986-1989 Syracuse University, B.A., "summa cum laude", 1986 In 2009, Portnoy