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New York Law Journal

Mixed Verdict Arrives in Latest Act of Doomed Broadway Musical

A jury handed down a mixed verdict Wednesday in the trial of a Broadway press agent accused of scaring off an angel investor who stood ready to save the ill-fated production "Rebecca-The Musical."
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Norman Mailer's Former Supermodel Flame Loses Defamation Suit

The lawsuit of a former supermodel suing the publishers of Norman Mailer's biography for mischaracterizing her affair with the late writer as “strictly sexual” has been thrown out by a federal judge.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Ex-Dreier Documentarian Joins Fox Rothschild as a Partner

Fox Rothschild has hired entertainment lawyer Marc Simon from New York's Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard. Simon once produced a documentary called "Unraveled" about Marc Dreier, the disgraced litigator currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for fraud.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Confidential Settlement? Not This Time, as Judge Unseals $20M Payment in Waterslide Death

It's almost a given: the more horrific the injury, the more appalling the negligence, the more likely the inevitable lawsuit will settle on confidential terms. And so went the lawsuit against a Kansas City, Kansas amusement park, where 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated on a waterslide last year. Until The Kansas City Star got involved, that is.
10 minute read

The Recorder

When Firm Life Makes Them Flabby, Lawyers Call This Trainer

Personal trainer Jonathan Jordan's clients include attorneys from Big Law offices, who come to him with loose glutes, collapsed cores and hunched shoulders from sitting for long periods.
13 minute read

Daily Business Review

Class Action Suit Filed Against Ill-Fated Fyre Festival

A putative class action has been filed against the ill-fated Fyre Festival, an event in the Bahamas that was supposed to be an epic mixture of music, entertainment, food and adventure.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Skadden Snags Stroock Entertainment Lawyer in Los Angeles

Neil Sacker, a former in-house lawyer at Miramax Films and Warner Brothers Studios who joined Stroock & Stroock & Lavan's Los Angeles office last year, has decamped for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
23 minute read

Corporate Counsel

After Fox News, What Should Companies Know About Corporate Counsel Defendants?

When an in-house lawyer is named in a legal complaint, there are plenty of considerations to be made.
14 minute read

Corporate Counsel

To Bayer, Compliance Is All a Game

Bayer has a new compliance training program that's different from anything it has offered its employees before.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Alanis Morissette's Business Manager Gets 6-Year Sentence for Embezzling $7.2M

GSO Business Management, which counts entertainers Katy Perry, 50 Cent and Tom Petty among its clients, said the theft by a former money manager led to lost business and nearly a dozen layoffs.
9 minute read

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