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MGA Settles Billing Dispute with O'Melveny

October 13, 2011 | Posted in : Fee Dispute, Fee Dispute Litigation / ADR

A recent NLJ story, “MGA Settles Billing Dispute with O’Melveny” reports that MGA Entertainment Inc. has settled in principle its $10.2 million billing dispute with O’Melveny & Myers, which represented the Bratz doll manufacturer in its high-profile copyright litigation with Mattel Inc. 

During an Oct. 12 court hearing, Christopher Jennings, an attorney at Los Angeles-based Gibson Dunn & Crutcher who represents O’Melveny, said the parties were working with retired U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian, a neutral at JAMS in Los Angeles, on the details of the settlement.  He asked Los Angeles County, Calif., Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White to give the lawyers a month or so to iron out the details.  White obliged, scheduling a Nov. 7 status conference.

Both Jennings and MGA attorney Edmond Connor, managing partner of Connor Fletcher & Williams in Irvine, Calif., declined to comment following the hearing.  During the proceedings, neither discussed the details of the settlements.  And no specifics were outlined in a stipulation filed on Oct. 3 in which lawyers on both sides told White that parties had reached a tentative settlement.