When Attorneys Ghostwrite Experts' Reports

Entertainment lawyers and family law practitioners are confronting a fundamental shift in how the assets of media personalities are identified, characterized and valued when celebrities divorce.

Interpreting entertainment-industry contract clauses or even whether there is an enforceable agreement often can be tricky. This article summarizes three recent court decisions dealing with these concerns.

Mattress retailer Sleep Number may pay up to $1.825 million in retention awards to 38 employees after a Southern District of New York bankruptcy judge rejected the U.S. trustee’s argument that some participants should be treated as insiders under the Bankruptcy Code. The awards were intended to keep key employees from leaving while Sleep Number completed its bankruptcy sale.