![]() ![]() ![]() Keith Olbermann hired her to navigate his thorny transition from MSNBC to Current TV after reading about how Glaser had handled Conan O’Brien’s exit from NBC. But recently she’s been equally adept settling matters out of the public eye. With her faint West Virginia accent and authoritative demeanor, Glaser long has been one of Hollywood’s smoothest courtroom lawyers. Glaser Weil Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro “We’ve spent a lot of time on the soccer field,” he says. HIS OBSESSION One of his two daughters plays soccer at UC Davis. Meanwhile, he is defending CBS in claims made by the John Wayne estate over use of the actor’s likeness, and he defended Fox and Sony in stolen-idea cases. The avid San Francisco Giants fan also represents National Lampoon in a dispute with Warners over the Vacation movies, and he helped Jon Peters negotiate an executive producer credit on the next Superman movie. over profits on Blade Runner and other movies was upheld by a California appeals court. (also Gatti’s father-in-law), whose $3.2 million judgment against Warner Bros. This year, he settled the long-running case involving producer Alan Ladd Jr. Gatti is one of the few Hollywood litigators who represent talent in profits claims against studios while also consulting for some of those same companies. “One day, we’ll look back in disbelief and say, ‘I can’t believe they could actually say that.’ ” He compares social media to the Wild West. Ever since, his phone has been ringing off the hook from hundreds of folks believing they, too, have been defamed on Twitter. Eventually, Love settled for $430,000, a big win for Freedman’s client. He represents notorious Web personality Perez Hilton and litigious blogger Nikki Finke’s employer Penske Media Corp., and he litigated a first-of-its-kind Twitter defamation case against Courtney Love on behalf of a fashion designer. “I’ll try to make it a Yankees game, Dodgers if I have to.”įreedman has lately found himself on the front lines of wars over what can be said on the Internet. WEEKEND ESCAPE “I go to baseball games as much as I can,” says the Brooklyn native, who fondly recalls the day he bumped into Joe DiMaggio at a restaurant. “It’s important at this stage of my career to work on cutting-edge matters,” he says of being picky about what he takes on. Now in his 41st year working at the same firm, the copyright litigator recently repped record labels in suits against user-generated content site Vimeo and music streaming site BlueBeat, and he submitted a key brief backing Viacom in its appeal of the $1 billion YouTube case. GIVING BACK A musical theater fan, Eskenazi does pro bono work for an organization that helps expose new artists to kids in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, and she represents the Festival of the American Musical. She also successfully repped special effects company Hydraulx in an arbitration against Sony over alleged copying of visual effects. Tolkien over the mega-grossing films, but even that drags on with a new dispute over whether the studio can license slot machines and online gambling. on behalf of the estate of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. ![]() “It isn’t a huge amount of money, but on a future basis it is critical.” A year ago, Eskenazi was celebrating a big settlement with Warner Bros. “They’re playing hardball,” says Eskenazi, who is preparing for a December trial. Her latest battle places Eskenazi in the center of the fight over royalties from digital recordings, downloads, ringtones and more as she represents the family of the late Bob Marley in a closely watched case against Universal Music Group. “To top it off, I took my family to Wimbledon this year, which has always been a dream.” ![]() OFF-DUTY The tennis nut recently won a men’s doubles tournament at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. The firm’s track record “has given the studios and networks confidence that we know how to defend these cases,” he notes. The father of three daughters (wife Susan was once a lawyer at his firm), Edelman has been awash in Hollywood disputes since winning several big-ticket cases a few years ago, including the infamous battle over Elie Samaha’s Franchise Pictures. in a profits case brought by the creators of Smallville. FX has him fighting a stolen-idea suit brought by biker Chuck Zito over Sons of Anarchy, and he’s defending Warner Bros. NBC deployed him during the Conan O’Brien Tonight Show fiasco, and this year CBS asked him to defend the multimillion-dollar profit participation suit brought by fired NCIS showrunner Don Bellisario over NCIS: Los Angeles. Jameela Jamil Says She Dropped Out of Audition for 'You' Season 4 Because "I Don't Do Sex Scenes"Įdelman has become a reliable gun in network and studio holsters. ![]()
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