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Labor & Employment

Jul. 18, 2012

Anthony R. Segall

Writers Guild of America, West Los Angeles and Pasadena Specialty: Labor Law


Segall has been spending a lot of time recently helping writers who produced their greatest works 30 or 40 years ago.


As general counsel for the Writers Guild of America, West, Segall wants to make sure those writers, or their estates, are compensated when their work is optioned for another format, like a television show or a Broadway musical. Often, lawyers for the guild represent those writers at an arbitration hearing. Segall said the old contracts aren't...

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