![]() The legal battle pits Bloom against the four California families and their lawyer, Liberty, who often represents parents of children with special needs. She has called her time representing Weinstein a “colossal mistake.” (Bloom was also a freelance contributor to NBC News from 2013 through 2016.) ![]() She also worked for the now-convicted rapist and disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in 2017 as women began to publicly accuse him of sexual assault and harassment. “We reiterate that everything was done in accordance with ethical rules,” the firm said in a statement to NBC News.īloom, daughter of famed feminist attorney Gloria Allred, built her own national reputation as a television host and lawyer representing abuse and harassment victims. The question of a written fee agreement is key because, in California, if lawyers from different firms are going to split attorney fees, the state bar rules require that the client agree to it in writing.Īsked whether it had fee agreements signed by the families, Bloom’s firm cited attorney-client privilege and said it could not provide any additional details. “The Bloom Firm is fully aware that there is no written fee agreement between the Bloom Firm” and the four families, each said in the separate filings. Bloom’s firm, which was brought in by Liberty to help on the cases, “abandoned” the families and withdrew from the cases in March, without ever having a written fee agreement with the families, the filings state. The families, who have been represented throughout their cases by Oakland-based lawyer Micha Star Liberty, responded Tuesday with federal court filings stating that they never agreed to pay anything to Bloom’s firm.
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