Entertainment and Sports Law

  • The Recorder

    Video Game Voice Actors Strike a Singular Exception to Hollywood Labor Peace

    By Todd Cunningham | July 7, 2017

    There is labor peace in Hollywood now — with one notable and sticky exception. SAG-AFTRA negotiators reached a tentative deal for feature films and prime-time TV over the holiday with the major movie studios and networks. Pending the expected ratification, the agreement will cover the union's roughly 160,000 members and is in line with the pacts reached earlier by the directors and writers unions, each of which signed off on similar three-year deals which extend into 2020.

  • Daily Business Review

    Gov. Scott, Seminole Tribe Strike Deal on 'Exclusive' Card Games

    By Dara Kam | July 6, 2017

    Gov. Rick Scott and the Seminole Tribe have reached an agreement about the tribe's "exclusive" rights to offer banked card games such as blackjack, in a move that took the Legislature by surprise.

  • The Recorder

    O'Melveny Duo's Backup Work Key to Kesha's 'Praying' Release

    By Todd Cunningham | July 6, 2017

    Embattled singer-songwriter Kesha released her first new single in four years Thursday. It's a defiant and celebratory tune called "Praying," and is accompanied by an artsy music video and will be on an album called "Rainbow," set for an Aug. 11 release. It took some standout backup work from attorneys Dan Petrocelli and Bo Pearl, partners at O'Melveny & Myers, to clear the way for the track's release. And it may do the same for the career of Kesha, who has sold more than 60 million records worldwide, but has been largely off the radar since an ongoing legal battle with her former producer Dr. Luke exploded in 2013.

  • Daily Report Online

    Jeopardy Finally Attaches for Persistent Appellate Lawyer

    By LEIGH JONES | July 6, 2017

    Jon Eisenman is not a quitter. The appellate lawyer in Los Angeles tried five times to appear on “Jeopardy!” before he snagged a spot on the TV answer-and-question game show. So far, he's won three games and is due to play his fourth on July 5.

  • New York Law Journal

    Understanding the Book or Screenplay Option Agreement

    By Wallace Collins | July 5, 2017

    Wallace Collins writes: An option agreement at its most basic is a contract whereby the writer grants to a producer, production company or studio, for a period of time and for a payment, the right to make a film of the writer's book, story or screenplay. The three main material issues that usually arise in negotiating such a deal are the length of the option period, the amount of the option payment and the purchase price if the project comes to fruition. How each of these issues will be resolved will vary depending on the negotiating leverage of the respective parties.

  • Corporate Counsel

    New General Counsel Up to Bat for Baseball Players' Union

    By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | July 3, 2017

    Ian Penny has been named general counsel of the Major League Baseball Players Association.

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Fantasy Sports Bill Clears NJ Legislature

    By Michael Booth | June 30, 2017

    The New Jersey Senate in a late voting session Friday gave final legislative approval to a bill that would regulate daily fantasy sports betting, a multi-million-dollar-a-year industry that has, until recently, gone largely unregulated nationwide.

  • The American Lawyer

    Legal Bills Grow in Sprawling USA Gymnastics Sex Scandal

    By Roy Strom | June 29, 2017

    Sexual assault allegations against Larry Nassar, a former team physician with the USA women's gymnastics national team and an ex-employee at Michigan State University, has created key litigation and investigatory roles for a handful of large law firms. And the billable hours are increasing.

  • Daily Business Review

    Phone Sex Workers Sue Over Low Wages, Long Hours

    By AMANDA BRONSTAD | June 29, 2017

    Phone sex might be expensive and short-lived for consumers, but it doesn't pay much for the workers on the other line.

  • National Law Journal

    Disney's Director Change on Han Solo Creates a Disturbance in The Force

    By TODD CUNNINGHAM | June 29, 2017

    Disney's upcoming “Star Wars” prequel about the young Han Solo is — by light years — the most potentially lucrative movie ever to switch directors in the middle of shooting.

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