Crisis Management & Coordination

Songwriters, musicians, actors, actresses, athletes, and others involved in the entertainment and sports industries often face difficult and serious crises that put them, their loved ones, their reputations, or their careers in serious danger. Our firm has the proven ability to combine a myriad of skills to use our knowledge of the law, our knowledge of the industry landscape, and our vast experience in general crisis management to guide clients through the most devastating of crises safely.

However, Managing Crises Efficiently and Effectively requires more than just knowledge. Effective crisis management and coordination requires the ability to adapt to often surprising or startling situations, and devise creative methods for addressing them. A crisis may involve legal components, law enforcement components, psychological components, publicity components, personal and family components, and more, all of which the attorneys at our firm are prepared to address. Since 1991, our firm has represented entertainment and sports industry clients in Los Angeles, the U.S., and worldwide in these very sensitive matters.

Examples of crises that require careful management and coordination include:

Stalkers

In addition to taking immediate and decisive Court action to obtain temporary and permanent nationwide restraining orders, our firm combats and manages stalkers by working closely with the Threat Management Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to contact, neutralize, and sometimes apprehend the stalkers, in order to prevent further contact and stalking activity. The firm often consults with the stalker’s family and mental health professionals in order to better understand the history and motivations of the stalker, with the ultimate goal of obtaining maximum protection for our clients.
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Injuries and fatalities

Although the firm does not specialize in personal injury law, our entertainment and sports clients often have to deal with serious injuries and deaths, at concerts and elsewhere, resulting from fires, crowd surges, insufficient security or barricades, and other causes. In those instances, our firm often supervises a team of publicity, insurance, legal, and management personnel to protect the artist as much as possible on all fronts. In addition, the firm represents its entertainment and sports clients and other high net worth individuals in connection with complicated insurance claims arising out of serious automobile accidents and other accidents and fatalities, as well as civil cases relating to DUI’s. In many cases, the firm will supervise insurance counsel in connection with such claims, while ensuring that all available insurance coverage is utilized. Many of these cases involve publicity components that involve the defense of the client in the all-important court of public opinion.
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Paternity actions

Perhaps the nature of the industry, claims are occasionally made by women or government agencies that a firm client is the father of a particular child. In fact, though rare, claims are sometimes made against a female client that the claimant is the father of the client’s child. When such a claim is made, the firm represents the client vigorously in order to protect his or her rights, addressing the issue of DNA testing and more.
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Sex tapes/Nude photos

Celebrities continue to make sex tapes and take nude photographs, and the media continues to want to publish them. The firm has had considerable experience successfully stopping numerous sex tapes and photos, by obtaining injunctions in Federal Court against internet websites and other distributors that have threatened to publish or distribute our clients’ sex tapes and photographs.
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