{"id":5822,"date":"2025-05-15T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/taylor-swifts-lawyers-fight-justin-baldoni-in-blake-lively-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:34:39","slug":"taylor-swifts-lawyers-fight-justin-baldoni-in-blake-lively-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/taylor-swifts-lawyers-fight-justin-baldoni-in-blake-lively-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift’s Lawyers Fight Justin Baldoni in Blake Lively Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tTaylor Swift\u2019s longtime lawyers are asking a court to throw out a subpoena they were served by Justin Baldoni in his feud with Blake Lively over the movie It Ends With Us<\/em>, just a few days after Swift\u2019s own reps slammed Baldoni for targeting the pop star with a similar subpoena. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Washington, D.C.-based law firm Venable, which has represented Swift for more than a decade, revealed in a Monday (May 12) motion that Baldoni\u2019s lawyers served it with a subpoena on April 29 seeking all communications between the firm on one side and Lively, the actress\u2019 husband Ryan Reynolds and\/or their attorney Michael Gottlieb<\/strong> on the other.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe subpoena specifically name-drops Douglas Baldridge<\/strong>, a Venable partner who\u2019s worked with Swift since 2013 and recently returned to the firm after a stint as general counsel at her company, 13 Management.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cVenable had nothing to do with the film at issue or any of the claims or defenses asserted in the underlying lawsuit,\u201d wrote the firm in a so-called motion to quash, which, if granted, would throw out the document request. \u201cThere is no reason for this subpoena other than to distract from the facts of the case and impose undue burden and expense on a non-party.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe law firm described Baldoni\u2019s subpoena as a \u201cfishing expedition,\u201d noting that \u201ceven if Venable were somehow involved (again, it is not),\u201d the documents that Baldoni seeks should be sourced from Lively and Reynolds themselves. The actor power couple is supporting Venable in its quest to throw out Baldoni\u2019s subpoena, calling it an \u201cabuse of the discovery process\u201d in a court filing on Tuesday (May 13).<\/p>\n

\n\tRevelations of the Venable subpoena come just a few days after Swift\u2019s representatives confirmed that she, too, had been served with a document request in the Baldoni-Lively feud. Mirroring the language in Venable\u2019s motion, a representative for Swift said she had no involvement in It Ends With Us <\/em>and slammed the subpoena as \u201cdesigned to use Taylor Swift\u2019s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venable did not immediately return a request for comment, nor did reps for Swift, Lively, Reynolds or Baldoni.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe It Ends With Us <\/em>legal battle began when Lively launched bombshell claims in December, alleging that Baldoni, her co-star and director on the movie released last summer, sexually harassed her on set and then orchestrated a public relations smear campaign to retaliate against her after she complained.<\/p>\n

\n\tBaldoni vehemently denied the claims and countersued Lively for defamation and other wrongdoing in January. Baldoni\u2019s suit said Lively leveraged her close relationship with a \u201cmegacelebrity friend,\u201d presumed to be Swift, to take control of the movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Baldoni filing includes text messages concerning an alleged meeting attended by \u201cRyan and Taylor,\u201d seemingly referencing Reynolds and Swift. In one message sent by Lively, the actress called Swift and Reynolds her \u201cmost trusted partners\u201d and compared them to the \u201cdragons\u201d in the show Game of Thrones<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe message could not have been clearer,\u201d Baldoni\u2019s lawyers wrote in the countersuit. \u201cBaldoni was not just dealing with Lively. He was also facing Lively\u2019s \u2018dragons,\u2019 two of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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