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Weintraub client Treefort Media is producing a new weekly talk show with Acast titled Kasich & Klepper, starring The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper and former Ohio Governor John Kasich. The show will launch in early 2022 and will cover a variety of hot topics with “humor and understanding.”

Treefort Media is represented by Shaun Gordon.

Read more about the deal on Deadline, here.

After obtaining summary judgment at the district court earlier this year in an employment lawsuit, Paul Gaspari, Daniel Zamora, and Ryan Abernethy prevailed in the 9^th Circuit appeal to the dismissal. The 9^th Circuit’s judgment sets favorable precedent for religious employers as it broadly applies the ministerial exception under the US Constitution and the Religious Exemption under the Fair Employment and Housing Act.

Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that as of January 1, 2022, healthcare and business law firm Salem & Green will merge with and into the Weintraub firm. Sacramento-based attorneys Julie E. Green, Christopher F. Anderson, and Jeanne L. Vance will join Weintraub’s Corporate Group.

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HBO has selected Weintraub client Steve Conrad to serve as writer and executive producer of a new series, “Tales of Dunk and Egg.” The show will be a prequel to the hit TV and book series, “Game of Thrones.”

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Paramount+ is ordering the TV adaptation of the hit true-crime podcast series Happy Face. 

The podcast series was created by Weintraub client Melissa Jesperson-Moore and produced in partnership with iHeart Media. Jesperson-Moore discovered at 15 that her father was the serial murderer known as the Happy Face Killer, which the podcast–and her book, Shattered Silence–detail.

Ms. Jesperson-Moore is represented by Weintraub Tobin attorney Shaun Gordon.

You can read the full story on Deadline, here.

Shauna Correia and Jessica Corpuz represented our client in federal court in a case under the Defend Trade Secrets Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The client is a major supplier of electronic package storage lockers throughout North America.  The defendant was a former employee who had refused to return company-owned computers and copies of our client’s sensitive data after he quit. Worse, he had threatened to leak the company’s confidential information, and boasted of his ability to remotely access and interfere with the company’s software.  The court granted our request for a temporary restraining order and turnover order for the stolen computers and data. Forensic investigation of the recovered computers revealed additional evidence supporting our client’s claims, and the defendant stipulated to a judgment.  The U.S. District Court for the Central District issued a consent judgment and permanent injunction in favor of our client on October 21, 2021.

Jacqueline Simonovich serves on the Bar Association of San Francisco Barristers Club Diversity and Inclusion Committee and runs the Committee’s Book Club. Jacqueline drafted a review of the Book Club’s most recent book, The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Delila Harris, for the Fall 2021 edition of San Francisco Attorney Magazine.  The article also includes a link to choose the Book Club’s next pick.

Zakiya Delila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, is both an extremely relatable office novel and a necessary critique of performative diversity.

You can read her full review of The Other Black Girl, here. 

On October 27 & 28 2021, Sotheby’s presented The Ricky Jay Collection, a miraculous and exacting tour through the history of the unusual and how it has captivated and inspired for centuries.  A video preview of the auction can be viewed here.  From Sotheby’s:

Magician, actor, scholar, author: the range of Ricky Jay’s accomplishments were as varied as are the formats and subjects of the material in his celebrated Collection: books, pamphlets, posters, handbills, broadsides, prints, ephemera, objects, and apparatus documenting the histories of magic, circuses, jugglers and acrobats, automatons, remarkable characters, learned animals, limb-deficient artists, con men, and scores of other related, if arcane, topics.

Read the 10/19/21 New York Times story on the collection here: The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay.

Stan Coleman represented Ricky Jay during his long and multi-faceted career and now represents his estate.  In addition to Jay’s legendary magic performance, consultation, and scholarship, he was well-known as an actor, appearing in the David Mamet films House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, and Redbelt, as well as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights and Magnolia.  

USA Network premieres its two-hour film “Nash Bridges” on Saturday, Nov. 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The film brings back original cast members Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as elite investigators for the San Francisco Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit.

Produced by Village Roadshow Television, the film was written by Bill Chais and directed by Greg Beeman.  It is based on the original series created by Carlton Cuse, which originally ran for six seasons (1996-2001) on CBS. Don Johnson, Bill Chais, Greg Beeman, and Carlton Cuse will executive produce.

Cheech Marin is represented by Stan Coleman and Matt Sugarman of Weintraub Tobin.

You can read more about the film and its release date on Deadline, here.