The first few weeks of 2013 have kept corporate lawyers from several Am Law 100 firms busy handling major media-related matters.

A week after Weil, Gotshal & Manges advised General Electric on the combined $18.1 billion sale of certain real estate properties and its remaining stake in NBCUniversal to cable giant Comcast, the firm is representing another venerable American institution, the Reader’s Digest Association, on its second bankruptcy filing since August 2009.