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Labor & Employment

Jul. 17, 2014

Debra Ellwood Meppen

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP Los Angeles Specialty: employment litigation


Last year Meppen prevailed in a contentious show business dispute.


Her client, an entertainer, had been hired to headline an event and be paid a set sum for her performance. But at the last minute before the show was to go on, the organization ran out of funding.


When others who also had planned to perform asked her for advice, "our client suggested that it was in the entertainers' best interest to perform, regardless of whether they were going...

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