Quick Hollywood Contract Work: One Week Until Filming
Aug 01, 2021
OUTCOME: Total success. Contracts signed and deal completed in record time.
A television producer client called to say they needed to start filming a new reality TV show for the Amazon network the following week. However, they didn’t yet have agreements negotiated or signed wi...th Amazon, or with the show’s on-air talent.
Through quick, diligent, and responsive work, we got the agreements prepared, negotiated, finalized, and signed with Amazon and the show’s on-air talent. Filming and broadcasting was able to start the following week, right on schedule
Intellectual property
Pirated Website: Shut Down in Only 48 Hours
Mar 01, 2021
OUTCOME: Total success at affordable price
Our software company client called us, upset. He had just learned that his company’s entire website had been pirated by a competitor based overseas. We informed him of his legal options to shut down th...e infringer, including some inexpensive ones that might resolve the problem quickly.
He was doubtful about the “quick and inexpensive” part, or even that we could accomplish it at all. The pirate was overseas, aggressive and brazen, not easily reachable, and almost impossible to make subject to the US laws and courts. But through our quick research, sending cease and desist letters, and a Take Down Notice under the US Copyright Act to the appropriate parties, we were nonetheless able to get the offending website permanently shut down and offline within 48 hours.
Real estate
A Race Against the Clock: Billionaire Celebrity Real Estate Deal
Jan 01, 1989
OUTCOME: Total success
One of our resort developer clients called us, panicking. They had an out-of-town billionaire celebrity buyer for the first of hundreds of luxury multi-million dollar custom properties. But to meet loa...n and marketing commitment deadlines, as well as the demands of his CEO and Board of Directors, they needed to simultaneously sign and close escrow the very next day.
Racing against the ticking clock, we immediately drafted all the paperwork, obtained the client’s notarized signatures, and coordinated with the escrow and title companies. We then flew to the buyer’s home, where we met with him, his lawyer, and a notary. We reviewed, negotiated, revised, finalized, signed and notarized the documents. We also collected the escrow deposit, then raced back to the airport for the flight home.
The moment the plane touched down, we raced to the escrow office with the signed paperwork and the escrow deposit. Escrow was successfully opened and closed that same day. The client and the buyer were both elated and relieved. The real estate company proudly announced the launch and sale of their first multi-million dollar property to their famous celebrity buyer to much press fanfare the following day.
