EXCLUSIVE: Michael Kassan‘s team promised late last week they would up the legal ante with UTA unless the agency completely dropped its lawsuit against the resigned/fired (depending on who you ask) MediaLink CEO, and today they did just that.
In a motion to compel arbitration filed this AM (read it here), the controversial executive’s lawyer Sanford Michelman has now requested a May 15 hearing in L.A.
Superior Court to erase UTA’s remaining claim to stop Kassan from forming a rival strategic advisory firm to the UTA-owned MediaLink.
Kassan left UTA earlier this month in a dispute over money and power. He says he resigned on March 6 and forfeited a $10 million payout so he could put together a new company.
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