Other matters handled by these attorneys remain confidential.ĭusty and moldy: When TV shows and movies from the 1980s and earlier are revived, Brenner says that an archival paper chase ensues in reviewing dusty old contracts. The quartet, all trial attorneys, are based in Century City. Their clients include studios, production companies, a sports coach, celebrities, directors and TV series showrunners. Sometimes he handles talent in those matters. Fink works breach of contract, profit participations, copyright and intellectual property matters. Fink reps studios and production companies pursuing and defending litigation. Cronin specializes in media and entertainment insurance recovery, copyright, idea theft, trademark and profit-participation disputes. Briggs defends Da Baby in accusations against him regarding rental property damage and alleged assault & battery.

Lee Brenner, William Briggs, Sarah Cronin, Dave Finkīrenner repped Mattel pressing a Barbie trademark lawsuit over a snack product that was settled in September.

Nessim also regularly reps SAG-AFTRA in connection with employment restraints in actor contracts.Ĭonsistent inconsistencies: “The standards for judging these self-dealing transactions are often very similar or identical, but the methodologies that these different studios use to arrive at self-dealing license fees are wildly different,” says Berlinski. Nessim and Cherlow engineered an eve-of-trial settlement in 2022 for the holders of a package commission on the original “MacGyver” in a breach of contract suit against CBS Studios regarding the current iteration of the series, and they’re repping “Supernatural” creator Eric Kripke in an upcoming arbitration for a nine-figure profit-participation dispute with Warner Bros. Berlinski resolved producer Katie O’Connell Marsh’s multiyear litigation against Gaumont Television related to the Netflix series “Narcos” on the eve of trial in November 2022 and is currently repping Chuck Norris in a lawsuit alleging underpayment of profit participation for his series “Walker, Texas Ranger.” He also currently reps Genting Group, the second-largest casino operator in the world, in ongoing matters related to the development and operation of Genting SkyWorlds, a billion-dollar Fox-themed amusement park outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The launch of major studios’ in-house streaming platforms put Hollywood self-dealing into hyperdrive, and the Bird Marella team has made headlines litigating the fallout.

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