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Labor/Employment

Dec. 30, 2010

Hollywood Money Thinner for Lawyers

Strike, downturn has cut paychecks for Hollywood actors and writers and their lawyers.


By Jean-Luc Renault


Daily Journal Staff Writer


To hear some Hollywood lawyers tell it, 2006 was the Golden Age.


Back then, relatively unknown actors could work when they felt like it, midlevel screenwriters could command premium prices, and the stream of television and film gigs led to lucrative practices for attorneys who negotiate entertainment deals and take a cut of clients' pay.


Ever since the 2007 strike by the Writers Gui...

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