WGA Prez David A. Goodman Rips Ken Ziffren For “Partisan Attempt To Undermine Guild Leadership”

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EXCLUSIVE: Seems Hollywood’s top legal mandarin has hit a raw nerve with the re-election seeking head of the WGA West and the latter wants the former to stay in his lane. “Ken Ziffren is an experie…

and the WGA Forward Together slate, the union exec jumped on the lawyer for comments to the Beverly Hills Bar Association about how the four-month standoff over packaging with the uber-agencies could go depending on the Guild election results next month.

“He should know that, as a lawyer who represents WGA members, he needs to avoid conflicts of interests and stay out of Guild elections,’ scribe boss Goodman stated of the one-time L.A. Film Czar in this war of words. “He should also know that he and his firm, as both employers and attorneys for industry employers, are legally prohibited from supporting candidates in union elections.”EP added in damning tones of the attorney.

“But, of course, Mr. Ziffren knows that,” the multiple Emmy nominee concluded of the master dealmaker. “It’s precisely what he intended to do.” Contacted by Deadline, Ken Ziffren had no comment on David A. Goodman’s response to his remarks at Lawry’s The Prime Rib today.

 

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