‘Bones’ and ‘Walking Dead’ Revenue Attorney Sues Her Previous Law Business

An attorney who worked on two large-profile profit participation lawsuits has submitted a match in opposition to her previous law business, alleging she was hardly ever compensated her good share of the lawful fees from all those situations.

Mansi Shah labored on the “Bones” lawsuit for Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP. The scenario resulted in a $179 million arbitration judgment in opposition to Fox, nevertheless the award was afterwards slashed to $50 million by an L.A. Excellent Courtroom judge, and eventually settled out of court. She also worked on the “Walking Dead” income situation, representing AMC Networks in its lengthy-running battle with display creator Frank Darabont.

Shah co-founded the law firm’s leisure follow group in 2013 with John Berlinski, after equally left NBCUniversal. In accordance to the go well with, they built up a worthwhile practice symbolizing profit individuals towards studios.

Shah suggests she was the only non-white lover in the firm’s Los Angeles business office, and a person of only a handful of nationwide. She alleges that she soon discovered herself slice off from the alternatives afforded to white partners. She resigned from the company in Could 2016 and now operates for Warner Bros.

Shah alleges that Kasowitz Benson is now using Hollywood studio ways to deny her share of the fees from her work.

“Ironically, now that Ms. Shah is no extended at the Firm, it has picked out to interact in the same hold off and denial tactics it routinely accuses Hollywood studios of employing, in an try to prevent its very clear contractual and fiduciary obligation to pay Ms. Shah her agreed upon share of the considerable revenues generated by the issues she originated with Mr. Berlinski,” the fit alleges.

Underneath her contract, Shah was entitled to 6.25% of all service fees earlier mentioned $1 million generated by her work with Berlinski, up to $500,000 for each 12 months. She alleges that she is owed the total $500,000 for each individual of her two years there, which include costs from the “Bones” and “Walking Dead” cases. She also represented Genting Malaysia Berhad, which afterwards sued Fox around a topic park in the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur.

The go well with states that the company originally refused to pay back Shah any of her slash of the charges, expressing she had specified up individuals legal rights by resigning. The business later relented and paid her compact amounts, sooner or later totaling $282,020. The company has presented to pay out her a different $324,739, but has not accomplished so, in accordance to the declare.

Shah promises that Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP still owes her much more than $717,980, furthermore fascination.