A Los Angeles state court jury handed film financier David Bergstein a $50 million win this week in his case against his former attorney, Susan Tregub. The award includes a $49.5 million compensatory verdict handed down on Tuesday and another $500,000 in punitive damages on Wednesday.
Bergstein, whose companies have included Capitol Films and ThinkFilm, first sued Tregub in March 2010. His most recent complaint, filed by Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, alleges that Tregub used confidential information to help Bergstein’s rivals force his companies into bankruptcy after she’d served as his in-house lawyer for almost a decade. Around the time the complaint was filed, Bernstein was vying to secure a slice of one of the biggest Hollywood deals in 2010 The Walt Disney Co.’s $660 million sale of Miramax Corp.
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