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Dec. 1, 2013

TMZ's Troubleshooter

Though gossip and scandal are TMZ's stock-in-trade, it isn't sued very often. In-house counsel Jason Beckerman is one reason why.

FROM HIS COMPACT OFFICE overlooking the TMZ newsroom, Jason Beckerman is sifting through the 14 or so story scripts that will comprise today's half-hour (minus commercials) TMZ on TV program, looking for potential legal blowback. TMZ's reporters and producers work in a sprawling industrial space studded with wood beams, floodlights, catwalks, numerous suspended closed-circuit monitors, exposed wiring, and a ladder leading to nowhere. Several semicircular workstat...

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