Berni speaks at Entertainment Lawyers Conference at UCLA
The title of the panel was “Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll” and it lived up to its name. The moderator was Leigh Brecheen of Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, Rosenthal, LaViolette & Feldman and the panelists included Blair Berk of Tarlow & Berk, Howard Bragman of Fifteen Minutes, Larry Stein of Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George and our own Bernadine Fried, MFT the Clinical Director of Wonderland Center.
The panel explored how to respond to a client’s personal crisis involving sex, drugs or the criminal justice system using a multidisciplinary team approach. The professionals discussed techniques from a inal, civil, public relations and psychological perspective. Each panelist shared stories that would make a successful episode of reality TV. Our panelists explained the challenges of representing artists, actors, musicians and athletes whose “outrageous” behavior forces the professional to maintain their ethical standards even if it means loosing a client.