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How the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Legal Drama Ends, to Us


What’s next after Baldoni’s new lawsuit? Crisis comms and legal experts weigh in on all the ways the competing suits could go.

This story referred to Lively’s complaint with California’s Civil Rights Department — which sets the stage for a possible labor lawsuit against Baldoni — and also claimed that his crisis PR team had worked to tank the Gossip Girl alum’s reputation. There will be a lot of transparency in the lawsuit and there will be a fight on whether and to what extent the press will be allowed in the courtroom at appearances and at trial,” Kimberly C.​​​ Lau, chair of the Title IX and education practice group at Offit Kurman, said. Roy S. Gutterman, director of the Newhouse School’s Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University, thinks Baldoni’s claims against the Times are meant to deter reporting.

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