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    Hollywood's lawyers play on-call doctors in drama between WGA and agencies

    by Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times Sep 20, 2019 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - For the attorneys of Hollywood's writers - currently locked in the worst labor dispute in a decade - the summer of 2019 was the summer that wasn't.

    Plans of sipping wine by the sea or playing polo in Santa Barbara went out the window. Instead, entertainment lawyers readied themselves to take calls from Hollywood writers, more than 7,000 of whom have fired their agents since April as part of the intense battle between the Writers Guild of America West and the Association of Talent Agents. Many of these writers, newly adrift in Hollywood's crosscurrents, turned to their lawyers for help.

    One attorney spent an hour and a half on the phone with six clients who wanted to know what to make of the WGA's court case against agents. Another painstakingly sought to unravel for a client a potentially bad TV

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