About 60 pilots for scripted network primetime programs will be shot under AFTRA contracts this year, while few – or perhaps none – will be produced under SAG jurisdiction, according to sources close to the two unions, who spoke on condition of anonymity. This continues a trend that began last year, ...

Kristine Grady Derewicz has been named the new managing shareholder for Littler Mendelson’s Philadelphia office. She was preceded in the position by Thomas Bender, who is credited with expanding the office from an original 10 attorneys and 6 staff members in March 2001 to 29 attorneys and 19 staff b ...

Defendant’s broadranging attack on seizure of e-mails that he sent was [utterly frivolous and] rejected. He assumed the risk that the recipient would keep and make use of them. And, violation of the Yahoo service agreement is hardly a ground to suppress. United States v. Grady, 2009 U.S. Dist. LE ...

I noticed this in a friend's email signature: [Commodore Koudelka] looked back. You? I know you! You trust beyond reason.[Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan] "Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall."from A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PLANT CITY, Fla. — Human remains have been found near a home where investigators were searching for the body of a missing man who won millions of dollars in the lottery nearly four years ago, Florida sheriff’s officials said. Abraham Shakespeare, a 43-year-old truck driv ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of a mentally impaired Alabama man who killed his former lover. The court, in a 7-2 vote, refused to overturn the death sentence of Holly Wood, who was convicted in the shooting death of his former girlfriend, ...

That sweet walkaway payday for Conan O’Brien might not be as rich as it sounds. Media such as Variety are reporting that NBC is likely to pay Conan $30 to $40 million to settle out his contract, with a deal to be reached shortly. But what few of the media appear to be mentioning is the two magic wor ...

Hollywood unions have long bargained for great health benefits, often foregoing a portion of wage increases in order to fund those benefits (as well as valuable pension benefits). Those health benefits, which are available to middle-class members as well as wealthy stars, would be the envy of most o ...

A SAG strike in the upcoming negotiating cycle is “difficult to envision,” a source from SAG’s moderate faction, Unite for Strength, told me, though he/she cautioned that avoiding one will require that management negotiate reasonably and he/she wouldn’t take the strike option off the table (as, inde ...

By Tamara Lush, The Associated Press LAKELAND, Fla. — In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare — a truck driver’s assistant who lived with his mother — won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life. Shakespeare vanished months ago. His mother hopes he is somewhere in th ...