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Aug. 6, 2010

Hedging Their Bets

When the writer's strike hit Hollywood in 2007, all the scripted entertainment shut down. Law firms that didn't have something going in the unscripted world were left pretty much twiddling their thumbs.

By Susan McRae

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - When the writer's strike hit Hollywood in 2007, all the scripted entertainment shut down. Law firms that didn't have something going in the unscripted world were left pretty much twiddling their thumbs.

Not Barkin & Smith.

The two-lawyer transactional entertainment boutique already had tapped into the reality TV market, which remained unaffected - even thrived - during th... (continued)

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