By Anna Zhang | July 10, 2017
Chinese firm Haiwen & Partner has recruited a fifth partner in its newly launched Hong Kong office.
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By Vincent Peppe | July 7, 2017
Since 2007, the development of the musical has been the source of protracted litigation that reached its latest stage in June 2017.
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By therecorder | The Recorder | July 7, 2017
Bargaining teams from SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers worked through the weekend—and several contract extensions—before reaching a deal Tuesday night. Here are some of the key points in the tentative agreement, which now goes to the membership for ratification.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | July 3, 2017
Ian Penny has been named general counsel of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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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.
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