Case Studies
Corporate & Business
Our client, a national AmLaw 200 law firm specializing in entertainment law and new media, was seeking to raise the profile of an attorney who was engaged in very significant work on behalf of the largest movie studios in the industry. Her clients included studios producing the highest-grossing films of the past year, yet her legal work had gone largely unrecognized by industry media, including The Hollywood Reporter.
Our client, a labor and employment partner in the Los Angeles office of a mid-sized Chicago-based law firm, was representing a Filipino publication that ran afoul of U.S. immigration law for improper use of H-1B visas for visiting Filipino journalists. The U.S. Department of Labor charged that the publication’s editors enticed the foreign journalists to the U.S. with the offer of professional work, based on the information that was provided in their H-1B visas. However, once they arrived in Los Angeles and went to work, they found that their new jobs were more menial than journalistic. When the U.S. Department of Labor filed the charges, the international media responded quickly. With but a few hours notice, we were called in to prepare our client for a live television interview about the matter with the ABS-CBN Network in The Philippines.
Our client, the Los Angeles office of an AmLaw 200 firm, took on a wrongful death lawsuit against a Southern California sushi restaurant, part of a large national chain of sushi restaurants owned by an even larger restaurant conglomerate. The suit alleged that the sushi restaurant – catering to an affluent, hard-drinking, youthful clientele in a California beach town – illegally served a minor who became intoxicated, got into his car after a long evening of drinking, and took off down the freeway at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour. The minor male eventually hit the vehicle of a woman who was driving home from her office, causing injuries so severe that the impact severed her spine. She died one week later from her injuries. The underage drinker was ultimately convicted on a plea deal and was sentenced to four years in prison. The sushi restaurant became the subject of an investigation by the California Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and the target of a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of the husband of the victim, the client of the law firm we were helping.
Our client, an AmLaw 100 international firm, was seeking to raise its profile in Los Angeles. Given the office location in downtown Los Angeles, the home of many law firm branch offices, the firm was searching for a way to connect with the surrounding community and hopefully stand out among its competitors. Through a partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the firm established an annual pen pal/mock trial program with an inner-city elementary school that has a 99% Hispanic student population.
Our client, the head of the real estate practice at a mid-sized corporate law firm in New York, wanted to use the firm’s newly signed lease extension – expanding the firm’s space to another floor – as a way to generate coverage for the firm’s real estate practice and highlight its capabilities.
Our client, an attorney at a sizeable Southern law firm, published a book on corporate state law and wanted to obtain exposure for the book and highlight his expertise in this niche area of the law. Given the recent impact of Dodd-Frank corporate governance regulatory changes on this area of the law, his timing was impeccable. The challenge we faced was having an attorney with extensive state level recognition, focusing on a state level issue for whom we were seeking national exposure. Fortunately, corporate state law is an area that will be greatly affected by national Dodd-Frank regulatory changes in every state across the country, so we had that key selling point on our side.
Our client, a large national law firm, wanted to position its corporate and transactional attorneys as go-to experts in regulatory changes associated with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The firm had several attorneys tracking regulatory developments across numerous areas of corporate law, including banking and finance law and related litigation, structured finance and securitization, derivatives and private equity. The firm wanted to establish itself as a strategic leader in a previously uncharted area of law by obtaining media coverage in key national, legal and trade media.