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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://deadline.com/2025/06/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-claim-drop-dispute-1236421032/

Blake Lively Insists Not Dropping Emotional Distress Claims Against Justin Baldoni, Despite What His Lawyers Say & Her Lawyers Seem To Have Said
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She is so dumb. [/quote]

She’s a lawyers dream. Although I think it’s borderline unethical when lawyers take cases like hers [/quote]

Agree.  She has the world's worst attorneys. Didn't they explain ANYTHING to her on how this whole case would go down.[/quote]

As comments have echoed for hundreds of pages: Blake and Ryan are very stupid and they’re being scammed and milked by all these “experts” and attorneys around them. Leeches feasting on two has-beens.[/quote]

I used to work at Willkie. I’m not saying they have a good case here, but they handle RR’s commercial work/investments and I assume took this case (1) to preserve that relationship and (2) obviously because it’s lucrative. But I think they are deferring to them to the point that they’re doing some dumb stuff because of (1).[/quote]

Agree, but will say that I have not been impressed with Gottlieb’s work here at all.  A big part of a litigation partner’s job is convincing a client to do the right thing.  His litigation strategy appears to be entirely client driven.[/quote]

Disagree, as someone very familiar with his other work. I think the problem is that he's laser focused on some of the underlying issues that are among his pet projects, and this has left the team flatfooted on the PR front and not really understanding the particular celeb landscape here. They've had to be so reactive on the PR side because Freedman is so much better at it, and I think it's because Gottlieb is focused on some specific legal issues and building a case around those. They've been moderately better since Lively brought on the crisis specialist but the advantage Freedman has is that he is, on his own, very smart at the PR game -- he's not relying on Balodni's PR team, he's just doing his thing and it's very effective. Gottlieb has handled high profile cases but to my knowledge never had to participate in this kind of tabloid volley. He's been outmatched on that front.

I link Lively's team is betting on gaining more of the upper hand as they get deeper into discovery and pre-trial motions. IMO, their motions have been much better written and argued and I think Freedman has likely annoyed Liman with his affidavit and refusal to address the group pleading issue prior to the MTDs being decided. Liman's order striking Freedman's affidavit was... testy.[/quote]

A good litigator doesn’t get distracted by other issues “that are their pet projects.”   Hard to get the upper hand when you have to drop your primary claim for damages for lack of proof.  Honestly beginning to think this may all end 
end with the Lively team being sanctioned.[/quote]

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