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EXCLUSIVE: One of Hollywood’s astir powerful rule firms conscionable snagged a bona fide zombie slayer.
Chad R. Fitzgerald has joined Greenberg Glusker arsenic a partner successful its Litigation Department.
The large move by nan very good regarded Fitzgerald comes aft almost 2 decades astatine nan very good regarded Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP. Best known for his instrumental domiciled successfully representing OG The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont and CAA successful an almost decade agelong profit information conflict pinch AMC that was settled successful 2021 for $200 million, Fitzgerald has a bevy of manufacture clients, arsenic good moving successful nan fitness, gaming and toys markets.
While TWD case and the difficult fought Bones behind-the-scenes bucks lawsuit against Fox and Disney captured a batch of ink for Fitzgerald nan lawyer is really astir prolific successful handling matters retired of nan courts and nan nationalist oculus successful settlements for his clients — a talent and trait overmuch appreciated successful town.
“Chad’s a worthy adversary, he’s smart, adjacent and ever connected apical of his briefs,” a rival intermezo litigator told Deadline of Fitzgerald. While profit information lawsuits made Fitzgerald’s bones (pun truthful intended), nan lawyer has heavy roots successful nan fields of vertical integration, and distribution litigation, which means, copyright, trademark and waste and acquisition secrets, fraud, authorities of privacy, and defamation, arsenic good arsenic support up a schedule that includes school astatine nan UCLA School of Law.
“Chad Fitzgerald is 1 of nan astir respected litigators successful our town,” Greenberg Glusker Managing Partner Bob Baradaran said Monday. “We are excited to witnesser his continued maturation successful our patient arsenic he provides invaluable acquisition to our clients successful their analyzable disputes.” Volleying nan emotion correct back, Fitzgerald added of nan 65-year aged firm: “Greenberg Glusker has ever been synonymous pinch top-tier intermezo practice. I americium thrilled to proceed my profession and turn my believe astatine a patient truthful profoundly woven into nan intermezo manufacture and broader business landscape.”
Fitzgerald besides sits connected nan Advisory Board for UCLA School of Law’s Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law.
