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Partner Effie Blassberger recently spoke with InTouch Weekly about her representation of Julia Ormond in a case against Harvey Weinstein, Creative Artists Agency, Miramax, and its then-parent company, The Walt Disney Company. Ormond is suing Weinstein for battery, and has also asserted claims against CAA, Miramax, and The Walt Disney Company for negligence, negligent supervision […]

CRKL partner Isabelle Kirshner recently secured a sentence of one year and a day for Star Brim, whose real name is Yonette Davis. Davis was charged in 2020 with playing a leadership role in large-scale racketeering indictments filed in the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of New York. Davis entered guilty […]

Partners James Valentino and Ramsey Hinkle recently concluded a successful representation in an employment matter in New York City. The attorneys represented a female employee who had a verbal dispute with a male colleague who then assaulted her. Both individuals were subsequently terminated. Valentino and Hinkle discovered that the male had previously exhibited violent tendencies […]

Partners Wayne Gosnell and Ramsey Hinkle recently secured a non-incarceratory sentence for an individual charged with participating in a multi-million-dollar drug conspiracy. The government alleged that the conspiracy involved transporting marijuana and money across the United States by various methods, exposing the individual to a potential sentence of up to 20 years imprisonment. Wayne and […]

Partners James Valentino and Ramsey Hinkle recently negotiated a significant settlement in an employment discrimination matter in New York City. The attorneys represented a married couple who were terminated as part of a reduction in force shortly before they were prepared to take parental leave. Arguing that the company’s inclusion of the married couple in […]

CRKL partner Effie Blassberger recently spoke with the U.S. edition of The Sun, concerning her client, actress Julie Ormond, who has brought a case against Harvey Weinstein, her agency at the time, Creative Artists Agency (“CAA”), Miramax, and its then parent company,  The Walt Disney Company. The lawsuit, which was filed in October by Blassberger and […]

Last week, CRKL partners Isabelle Kirshner and Brian Linder convinced a Manhattan jury to return a not guilty verdict in the case of Frank Esposito, an attorney indicted for official misconduct.  Assisted by associate Eliel Talo, the CRKL team persuaded the jury that the prosecution’s case was based on the testimony of a witness whose […]