Lawyers in the News
1. Their divorce was bitter, but post-divorce still more so. Christie Brinkley prevailed in securing a restraining order against her ex-husband Peter Cook on the issue of allowing their children to watch Peter Cook’s intervew with Barbara Walters – in which he blames Brinkley for their marriage’s demise. Robert Stephan Cohen represented Brinkley.
2. Only two days after its October 7th launch, the Daily Beast, a Tina Brown/Barry Diller joint venture, was sent a demand letter by Philadelphia Newspapers LLC. The letter demanded that Daily Beast cease using its potentially trademark-infringing logo, which is “virtually identical in shape, color, font and style to our own Daily News logo.” The letter added that “our readers could easily be duped into thinking that your Web site is somehow affiliated” with the Daily News. Hang in there Daily Beast, we feel your pain.
3. Record Label Brookland Media was granted a temporary injunction preventing Lil Kim from recording any new music while the New York court adjudicates Brookland’s $2.5 Million breach of contract lawsuit against the female rapper. Lil Kim’s lawyer Londell McMillan seems unworried: “We’ll work it out around a conference table, in front of a judge or over some martinis,”
