Beverly Hills, CA
Entertainment Lawyer at Beverly Hills, CA
Practice Areas: Litigation, Entertainment
OUTCOME: $7.4M verdict for the Gaye family - the largest music copyright infringement verdict in history
Representing the family of Marvin Gaye, the firm filed a copyright infringement action alleging that the #1 worldwide Pharrell Williams / Robin Thicke hit "Blurred Lines" infringed Marvin Gaye's #1 hit ... from 1977, "Got to Give it Up." The case was hard fought for 18 months, ending in a 2 week federal court trial.
OUTCOME: $130,000 settlement for Ms. Y.
Ms. Y., employed as the office manager of a thriving private medical practice, alleged that she was sexually harassed by her boss, and that he touched her inappropriately and made statements of a sexua ... l nature to her behind closed doors. Ms. Y. alleged that when she reported the harassment to the person she was directed to report to (who happened to be her boss's wife), she was terminated in retaliation for having made the report.
OUTCOME: $600,000 settlement for the children of Ms. Aboudihaj
Pop singer Brandi Norwood was driving her Range Rover home on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles in 2006. Ms. Norwood was traveling at 65 miles per hour when she failed to observe traffic stopped ahead of ... her, and slammed into the rear of 38 year old Awatef Aboudihaj. Ms. Aboudihaj was forced into the car in front of her, and then into the center divider before being struck yet again by a third car. Ms. Aboudihaj died of her injuries the following day. Ms. Norwood was not charged with a crime, and an autopsy revealed that Ms. Aboudihaj had illegal drugs in her system at the time of the crash. Investigation also revealed that Ms. Aboudihaj had struck the driver in front of her before being struck from the rear by Ms. Norwood. Despite these difficulties, Mr. Philips filed a wrongful death action against Ms. Norwood, representing the children of Ms. Aboudihaj.
OUTCOME: $20M settlement to the families of victims of the Armenian Genocide
Representing families of victims of the Armenian Genocide, Mr. Philips filed an insurance bad faith action against insurance giant New York Life, to force the company to honor life insurance policies p ... urchased by more than 2,000 Armenian Genocide victims, and to pay the death benefits on those policies to the victims' families. New York Life had previously refused to honor the policies.
OUTCOME: $333M settlement for the residents of Hinkley, CA.
Representing the residents of Hinkley, California, the firm filed an action against utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric over PG&E's dumping of carcinogenic pollutants into the Hinkley groundwater, cau ... sing residents an array of health complications and permanent injuries. Mr. Philips was one of a select group of attorneys hand-picked to manage this very complex litigation.
OUTCOME: $954,000 verdict for Mr. Festa
Mr. Festa was severely injured when the fork on a Specialized mountain bike separated from the bike, causing Mr. Festa to crash to the ground, severely injuring his neck, face, head, shoulder, and ches ... t.
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