The process has been grueling, involving 6 meetings so far (2 more are scheduled), at which various interests have to be reconciled, and rules for the group’s governance established. Frequent readers probably know that I have lately been involved with a group of L.A. It’s important work, and it’s hard. Can you imagine? MORE >>

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There’ve been a lot of developments at SAG in the last few days: town hall meetings filled with members, many of whom in LA were pro-strike and in NY anti-strike; an anti-strike letter from A-list stars; an anti-strike op-ed in the LA Times; and more. There’s another town hall meeting in LA in a few hours. What’s it all mean? Eastern. MORE >>

“LawZam is like speed dating for the legal world,” Dunkelman, a Los Angeles lawyer , says in a press release. It simply provides the venue for consumers and lawyers to meet and consult. That is how co-founder Claudio Dunkelman describes his new lawyer-client matching site, LawZam. General MORE >>

Instead, a hearing on the suit will take place this morning in Los Angeles Superior Court. Meanwhile, a meeting of the Guild’s hardline-dominated Hollywood Board took place tonight from 6:30-10:15 p.m. The meeting was preceded by a rally of about 30 supporters of the hardliners, the Membership First faction. MORE >>