A steady hand guided this strike settlement

February 22, 2008 Recently, Wertheimer and his firm, Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austin Mandelbaum Morris and Klein, handled the all-night negotiation that led to producer-director J.J. Abrams' massive deals with Paramount (for films) and Warner Bros. The small handful of senior industry attorneys who command gravitas in the thorniest negotiations are the sober statesmen of the business, the detached insiders who, even though they advocate fiercely for clients, have dealt fairly with CEOs like Chernin and Iger on enough deals to have earned their respect. Plus, when the call came from the WGA, Wertheimer had already sacrificed much of his holiday season negotiating an interim agreement for client David Letterman's company Worldwide Pants.

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