Naughty hands Kottick????
One of Hollywood's most powerful chief executives has lost a legal battle against one of its toughest attorneys.
The brawl between Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Santa Monica-based video game giant Activision Blizzard Inc., and Patricia Glaser, once described by California Lawyer magazine as "one of the fiercest litigators in Los Angeles,” has its origins in a 2007 sexual harassment lawsuit that ultimately led to an epic dispute.
On the surface, the entire affair sounds like the makings of a bad joke involving a lawyer, a pilot, a flight attendant, a CEO and an investment banker.
At the end of the day, however, the amount of money at stake was no laughing matter.
On July 6, a three-judge panel in the California Court of Appeal sided with Glaser, who alleged that Kotick had stiffed her firm out of more than $1 million in legal fees.
