Hollywood’s Big 3 talent agencies estimate that it will cost them more than $10 million to produce all the documents the WGA is seeking in discovery as their yearlong legal battle over packaging fe…
WGA Will 'Proceed In Force' With Discovery & Then To Trial In Legal Fight With Big 3 Agencies, Despite Court Setback
Rich Shuter, a partner at UTA, said in a sworn declaration on April 27 that “that the principal issue before the Court concerns the appropriate number of ‘custodians’ that UTA and the other agencies each will be required to search and produce in response to the guilds’ First Set of Document Production Requests. In that regard, I am informed that UTA, CAA and WME have each offered to produce the files of 15 custodians to the Guilds , but that the Guilds have rejected that offer.
“Because UTA has committed to produce not only the terms of the Package Deals,” Suter said in his declaration, “but also the other communications in our files, such as communications with clients or with production entitles concerning those projects, the production of these documents will, in my opinion, provide the Guilds with a large and comprehensive set of documents permitting them to comprehend and scrutinize the deals themselves, and the process through which these deals are negotiated,...
Isabelle Mercier-Dalphond, vice president and counsel of Endeavor, the parent company of WME, said in her declaration that she has supervised and been personally involved in the identification and collection of documents and data regarding WME’s packaging deals that are maintained in central repositories and databases, “from which documents and data will be produced in this matter.
WGA attorney Casey Pitts, in an April 20 declaration, laid out the guild’s position, offering a blow-by-blow account of the behind the scenes wrangling between the guild and the agencies, which earlier this month led to an “impasse” in their attempts to reach an agreement on the scope of discovery. On March 3, she wrote to the agencies lawyers to provide them with the guild’s counterproposals and the two sides subsequently had another telephone conference to attempt to resolve their issues, but were not able to come to an agreement.
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