We think it is worth seeing which of his lawyers stand by him and we’re interested to see if there will be any women on the team.
The American Lawyer reports
Unless litigation erupts between Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Co. (TWC), David Boies said he will continue to represent the embattled movie producer and his firm will continue to represent TWC.
“I’m still doing what I was doing,” said the Boies Schiller Flexner chairman, a longtime legal adviser to Weinstein, in an interview with The American Lawyer.
Some news accounts have speculated about a looming battle between Weinstein and his namesake film studio, which terminated him last weekend. Questions about the roles played among Weinstein’s changing cast of outside counsel have surfaced because of the high-profiles of certain faces, which seem to come and go.
Most recently, Weinstein tapped litigator Patricia Glaser of Los Angeles-based Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro to represent him in negotiations over his exit from TWC. Glaser, who has advised other top entertainment figures in Hollywood, previously worked with Boies in counseling William “Bill” Gross, the ousted boss at Pacific Investment Management Co. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment by the time of this story.
As for Boies, who has his own film finance venture that has done business with TWC, he carefully delineated what his role will—and won’t be—in representing Weinstein. He won’t be helping Charles Harder of Beverly Hills-based Harder Mirell & Abrams, who last week threatened a $50 million suit against The New York Times over its story alleging that Weinstein for years sought sexual favors from actresses, sometimes in workplace settings. (Boies Schiller has done work for The Times.)
