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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been following attorney Bryan Freedman's antics over the last few months because he is currently representing Justin Baldoni of the dcum megathread, where he achieved good PR related results early for Baldoni in getting public opinion behind him, but more recently has experienced loss after loss (his entire affirmative case got dismissed, mostly with prejudice; he failed to file an amendment for the remaining claims, etc).

Freedman is well known as an entertainment lawyer to the stars.  When you go to his firm's website, it boasts in all caps:  "YOU CAME HERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A CRISIS.  RELAX.  WE'LL TAKE CARE OF IT." https://lftcllp.com/

Haha.  Well, maybe not so much, because recently Bryan Freedman has been going through some things.  He is currently representing actor Vin Diesel in a case where Diesel's former assistant has brought a harassment/assault case against Diesel, alleging that Diesel pushed her against a wall, would not release her, and essentially mast******* while holding her captive.  Then after the encounter was over, he allegedly fired her.  This case has been proceeding for a while and the last part of Vin Diesel's deposition was supposed to occur last week after a month of date changes and reschedulings.  At the last minute, Freedman and his co-counsel from the Freedman firm, Sean Hardy, objected to and cancelled Vin Diesel's deposition, with no real explanation and leaving Hale holding the bag for costs, etc.

Upon hearing about this unexpected change, Hale asked for a meet and confer with Freedman and Hardy at another deposition they were all attending the next day, to figure out what had happened and the way forward.  This is how on Tuesday, June 23rd, the day Freedman was originally scheduled to take Blake Lively's deposition, Freedman wound up coming close to but not quite assaulting opposing counsel Matthew Hale, while also cursing him out.  Matthew Hale ultimately filed a declaration with the court, describing the whole encounter as follows:

[img]https://preview.redd.it/bryan-freedman-threw-a-punch-at-another-lawyer-but-stopped-v0-8cr1bfizuj9f1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=237b6308ed55e8cc74378d51d9b4329464d22352[/img]

I am a lawyer and this kind of language and behavior sounds totally bizarro to me.  While I have seen attorneys take fim, hard line positions during depositions to protect their clients above all, I have never seen a lawyer address opposing counsel with foul language like this, or seen anything close to a fake-out punch.  Freedman has several high profile cases going on right now besides Baldoni and Vin Diesel.

My understanding is that this thread should be used to comment on Friedman's behavior in the Vin Diesel case, but that it's still appropriate to comment about his behavior in the Baldoni case in the Baldoni thread.

I will post more facts about this case in the comments below because this is already too long, sorry.  But, isn't this bananas behavior?  The only times I have heard of a lawyer behaving this way was shortly before they got busted for fraud or other illegal behavior.

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I think your last sentence likely describes what is going on.[/quote]

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