Marietta, GA
Entertainment Lawyer at Marietta, GA
Practice Areas: Entertainment, Contracts & Agreements ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Precedent-setting defense verdict
Published case about a talent management company that sued a Screenwriter client for $225,000 worth of fees resulting form the sale of two screenplays that occurred AFTER the management contract was te ... rminated by the Screenwriter. Defendant Screenwriter claimed that no money was owed to Plaintiff because it was acting as an unlicensed Talent Agent in violation of California law.
OUTCOME: Client's intellectual property was fully protected
Matt was counsel of record for Laura Hart McKinney, the North Carolina-based screenwriter who recorded the storied “Fuhrman Tapes” which became a spectacular evidentiary lightning rod in that historica ... l case. As part of this engagement, Matt became admitted pro hac vice in North Carolina and defeated both Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey in a nationally televised hearing by which he successfully quashed a key defense subpoena on behalf of Ms. McKinney. Later on, Matt appeared before Judge Ito in Los Angeles to oppose a motion to quash a protective order that was issued to protect Ms. McKinney’s intellectual property rights. In a televised debate that lasted in excess of two hours, Matt argued against the defense, the prosecution, the City of Los Angeles (then represented by future Los Angeles mayor James Hahn), the ACLU and Mark Fuhrman to uphold Judge Ito’s protective order – and he prevailed. Following Simpson’s acquittal, trial legend F. Lee Bailey was so impressed with Matt that he began to refer cases to him regularly.
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